Klara Consulting partners with Normain to scale expert quality review across its accounting practice

Klara Consulting is rolling out Normain across its offices to give its accountants a faster and more consistent way to perform the document-heavy quality reviews at the core of the firm, with every conclusion traceable back to the source it came from.

Normain today announced that Klara Consulting, one of Sweden's fast-growing accounting and advisory groups, is adopting Normain to standardise and scale the quality review work that underpins its client engagements. Built through the acquisition of accounting bureaus across the country, Klara Consulting now operates close to 30 offices, and is using Normain to bring a single, consistent review method to all of them.

The work at the centre of the rollout is the review of income tax declarations and financial statements: annual reports, balance and income statements, share registers and the official tax authority forms that go with them. Klara's domain experts define what a correct review looks like, setting the controls and the materiality thresholds that decide which findings are worth a consultant's time, and Normain applies that standard across every client file, linking each conclusion back to the exact document and page it came from.

For Klara Consulting, the appeal is consistency and control rather than only speed, which directly translates to best-in-class quality for their clients. As the group has grown through acquisition, every office has brought its own way of working. A shared method that runs the same checks the same way across all of them, with results that can be traced and stood behind, lets the firm raise quality across the practice without taking judgment away from the people who own it.

“We didn’t want to hand the review over to a machine, but to take the standard our best people already work with, and apply it consistently across every office,” said Martin Sandstedt, Klara Consulting. “We define the controls and how they should be interpreted, and Normain does the reading and cross-checking against the sources. That frees our accountants to focus on the insights that truly matter.”

The rollout also opens up uses beyond the review itself. Klara is building toward aggregated quality statistics across its business areas and offices, so it can see where issues cluster, and toward using the tool to guide more junior staff by showing not just what was flagged but why it matters and what to do next.

"We've grown by bringing great firms together. Normain is how they can now work as one, with the same quality and deep expertise for every client." said Victoria Thore, CEO of Klara Consulting.

“Klara Consulting holds a high bar for the work that goes out under its name, and that is exactly the kind of firm we built Normain for,” said Sara Landfors, CEO and Co-founder of Normain. “They keep control of the judgment, and we make sure the manual reading and verification stops being the bottleneck. Seeing it roll out across their offices, on real client files, is the strongest proof that it works.”

About Normain

Normain builds source-verified AI for professional services and other regulated environments where accuracy and accountability are not optional. The platform lets domain experts define what good looks like and applies that judgment across large volumes of documents, with every output traceable to its source. Normain is built on Microsoft Azure and available through the Microsoft commercial marketplace. The company was founded by Sara Landfors, Dennis Landfors and Kalle Hansson and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Professional services teams can request a walkthrough at normain.com.

About Klara Consulting

Klara Consulting is one of Sweden's leading providers of financial services to small, medium-sized and growing companies. From 26 offices across Sweden, its more than 600 authorised accounting and payroll consultants serve over 6,000 customers with accounting, payroll and HR, audit, advisory, and recruitment and interim staffing. Klara Consulting is an authorised agency through Srf konsulterna and works to the Swedish Rex and Salk standards. The company is headquartered in Stockholm and is part of the Nordic Rantalainen Group. Learn more at klaraconsulting.se.