Nodus Tax Launches New ASC 740 Provision Service Combining AI, Partner-Level Tax Expertise and Full Traceability

Proprietary technology cuts manual work and brings tax experts closer to the provision, improving speed, accuracy, and audit review with full transparency.

SAN JOSE, CA, UNITED STATES, September 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Nodus Tax today announced the launch of a new ASC 740 provision service built around a simple idea: use AI for the work technology can do well, and keep experienced tax professionals responsible for the judgments that matter.

Nodus handles the ASC 740 provision from start to finish, using proprietary technology to take out much of the manual work and keep the process fully transparent, with every number connected to the reasoning and support behind it. The result is a provision that gets done on time and gives the auditor a clear path through the work, with fewer questions and less back-and-forth.

The approach is designed to solve a problem that has persisted even as tax technology has advanced: provision work still depends heavily on manual effort, fragmented spreadsheets and knowledge that can be difficult to trace or carry forward from one reporting period to the next.

Corporate tax teams are also under growing pressure. The 2025 State of the Corporate Tax Department found that 58% are under-resourced, while tax professionals spend 56% of their time on basic, reactive work.

Traditional provision work often moves through layers of junior staff before senior tax professionals step in to review it. Nodus changes that model. AI takes on more of the repetitive work, while partner-level ASC 740 professionals stay close to the provision and make the material judgments throughout.

“ASC 740 is too consequential to hand over to a black box, and too labor-intensive to keep doing the way it has always been done,” said Matt Fricke, co-founder and CEO of Nodus Tax. “We built Nodus so technology can take on more of the work while experienced tax professionals stay focused on the decisions that require judgment.”

Nodus also keeps the work fully traceable. Calculations run through deterministic Excel logic, and a number can be followed back to the source data, supporting documentation, technical authority, assumptions and professional judgment behind it. When something changes, the impact can be seen without having to reconstruct how the provision was built.

Privacy and security are built into the same architecture. When AI is used outside Nodus’ closed system, client data is blinded and normalized first, so the model gets the structure and relationships it needs without seeing raw client values.

“AI can do a remarkable amount of work, but speed alone isn’t enough in financial reporting,” said Seth Redmore, co-founder and CTO of Nodus Tax. “You need to be able to see exactly how you got to the answer and know your data is protected along the way. We built Nodus so AI can accelerate the work without exposing raw client data or hiding how the answer was reached.”

The same structure allows prior-period work and reasoning to carry forward rather than being rebuilt each year. That continuity is reflected in Nodus’ pricing. Clients receive a fixed price based on a defined scope, with routine questions and calls included. When the scope remains unchanged, second-year fees are expected to decline by 20 to 25 percent.

Fricke brings 30 years of experience in ASC 740, M&A tax, international tax and global reporting, including serving as a tax partner at Armanino LLP and managing director at Alvarez & Marsal. Redmore brings more than two decades of experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Nodus serves venture-backed, private-equity-owned, pre-IPO, SEC-reporting and M&A-active companies, as well as other organizations facing increasingly complex financial reporting requirements.

About Nodus Tax
Nodus Tax is a specialist corporate tax firm focused on ASC 740 provision preparation. By combining partner-level tax expertise with proprietary, AI-enabled technology, Nodus delivers the complete provision with transparent calculations, fully traceable reasoning, and a clear path through audit review.
For more information, visit nodustax.com.

Melissa Marchwick
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