Coherence · by DocuLedger

Multi‑entity accounting without the migration.

Upload a trial balance per entity for combined financials and automatic trending. Upload as often as you want current numbers — not just once a period — so you're steering on today's portfolio, not last month's. From day one.

Gain confidence without forcing migration.

Trend · Signal · Steer
Built by DocuLedger. / In production at the FCT Companies group — multi-entity manufacturing, water treatment, and advanced materials / Audited under private equity scrutiny
The switching question, answered up front / No system to replace. Start with a trial balance per entity — and re-upload it as often as you want the numbers current. Whatever each entity runs — QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, a spreadsheet — export a trial balance and upload it in under a minute. Each entity controls exactly what it shares, with a full audit trail of what was shared, when, and by whom — revocable anytime. That control is the point.
The reality on the ground

Half the companies aren't even on the same software.

Most people running or backing multiple companies are reading numbers stitched together by hand, a month late, with no way to drill in themselves. And in real life, half those companies are JVs, partial stakes, or portcos with their own systems — so "just put them all on the same software" was never going to happen.

And the recurring reports that actually close each period — AR aging, bank registers, payroll, sales by customer — live in inboxes and shared drives, with no shared trend, no governance, and no continuity when the person who owned them moves on. Every period, the same chase.

We give them one live view of the whole portfolio — combined, drillable, current — without replacing the accounting systems each entity already runs. And one surface for those recurring reports — tracked, trended, governed, backfillable to history.

Each entity shares to the portfolio by consent — revocable any time.
i. Trend / Beat one of three

See where you're heading.

Every number that matters, trended automatically from the first period you upload. Cash, margin, AR, AP, net income on the financial side. On‑time delivery, quote win rates, sales and profit by customer, inventory counts on the operational side.

fieldhouse.doculedger.com / portfolio LIVE
Portfolio · 6 entities · Combined · Apr 2026
Cash in focus.
Portfolio cash fell $20K in Apr, but 2 entities — Arbor Labs and Drift Commerce — are below 5 months of runway.
Lens
Entity
Cash
12‑mo trend
Runway
MoM · YoY
Signals
Drift Commerce slipped under 3 months of runway this period. Review with finance by Fri. Snooze Open Drift →

Portfolio view — every company's cash, trending, with entities ranked by runway.

Each surfaces with its 12‑period sparkline, its prior‑period delta, and its trajectory — so you see the direction before the meeting, not during it. Every template knows what matters in its data — the totals, the KPIs, the composition breakdowns — and extracts them automatically, so the dashboard is live the moment your first upload validates. No dashboard‑building. No report pipelines. If your team is already exporting it, Coherence is already trending it.

Know the direction before the board asks.

ii. Signal / Beat two of three

See what needs your attention.

Low runway. Slow collections. Tight liquidity. Margin compression. An on‑time delivery rate that slipped below target. A quote pipeline that's growing — or shrinking.

fieldhouse.doculedger.com / signals LIVE
Portfolio · 6 entities · Signals · Apr 2026
4 signals need your attention.
Coherence raises its hand the moment a number crosses a line — ranked by urgency, tagged to the entity and the metric that triggered it. You don’t filter. You don’t hunt.
1 Critical 3 Watch 2 Clear Ranked by urgency · click a signal to open the entity
Critical · Low runway
Drift Commerce slipped to 2.1 months
↓ from 3.4 mo
Cash · 12-mo trend
Watch · Low runway
Arbor Labs at 4.6 months
below 5-mo line
Cash · runway
Watch · Slow collections
Drift Commerce AR aging to 58 days
↑ 11 days QoQ
AR · DSO
Watch · Margin compression
Meridian Foods GM down to 31.2%
↓ 2.4 pts QoQ
Gross profit
Drift Commerce is the only critical signal this period — one click to the dashboard driving it. Snooze watch Open Drift →

Signals — every threshold crossed, ranked by urgency, tagged to the entity and metric that triggered it.

Coherence flags all of it, on the surface you’re already looking at. You don’t hunt for problems. You don’t build filters. Signals tell you which entity, which metric, and which period triggered the flag.

See the problem while it’s still small enough to fix.

iii. Steer / Beat three of three

Act on what you see.

One click from any signal to the source it came from. Portfolio to transaction, or obligation to dashboard, in one session. No logins between surfaces. No exports. No reconstructing the trail.

Click a low‑runway chip and you're in that entity's dashboard. Click a metric card and you're on its 12‑period history. Click a row on the underlying statement and — for entities running on Coherence — you're in the transaction register looking at the invoices driving it.

The whole point of capturing and trending the data is that you can act on it.

Coherence keeps the distance between seeing and acting as short as a single click.

PORTFOLIO · CASH LENS
Drift Commerce $980K 2.1 mo runway
Click signal chip ↓
DRIFT COMMERCE · ENTITY DASHBOARD
Cash · 12‑period history ↓ $84K MoM
Click cash card ↓
BANK REGISTER · OPERATING · APR
Outflows driving the dip 3 of 47 entries
Click any outflow row ↓
TRANSACTION · INVOICE
APR 18 Pacific Logistics Co. INV‑2412 $32,400
APR 22 Northbeam Materials INV‑2418 $28,950
APR 26 Greycliff Holdings INV‑2421 $22,800
Source. ✓
The reveal

There's a real accounting system underneath.

Most finance dashboards sit on top of someone else's books — a BI tool pulling from QuickBooks, a spreadsheet stitched together every close. Your drill path stops at an export button, and your numbers are secondhand.

Coherence is different. Your data lands in a real ledger — posted, validated, audit‑logged, drillable — whether an entity is uploading a trial balance each period or running its full operation on Coherence.

And when an entity is ready to run native, AP, AR, bank reconciliation, inventory, and period close move onto Coherence with the depth of a standalone accounting system. Both modes feed the same Portfolio view, so a group with some entities uploading and others running native sees one combined picture.

Built by DocuLedger — nearly a decade of accounting systems running under PE scrutiny behind it.

Multi‑company accounting. Operations reporting. A real ledger underneath. It's one product.
DocuLedger
Founded · Fort Collins, Colorado
Building accounting systems for manufacturers and multi‑entity operators since 2017. Audited under private equity scrutiny. Coherence is what nine years of that work taught us — rebuilt from the foundation.
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See it in motion

The whole story, in one quick demo.

Trial balances in, a portfolio you can drill, signals that fire on their own. The same Trend, Signal, Steer story — running on the actual product.

video.doculedger.com / coherence-demo Watch demo

Recorded walkthrough — chart of accounts to portfolio to operational detail, in one pass.

Getting started

You don't switch accounting systems to use Coherence.

Upload a chart of accounts for each entity you want to track. Upload a trial balance per period from whatever you're running today. Re-upload whenever the numbers move — weekly, daily, whenever you want them current.

That's it. The Portfolio view opens with a year of trajectory across every entity. Signals start firing from the first upload forward — and refresh every time you re-upload.

When an entity is ready to run natively on Coherence, flip it — same Portfolio view, more depth underneath. Some entities native, some uploading, some both. Your call.

No migration consultants. · No chart‑of‑accounts redesign. · No parallel running.
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Chart of accounts

Spreadsheet upload. Three required columns — Account Code, Account Name, GL Account Type — plus optional Is Cash / Is AR / Is AP flags. Thirteen GL types, each accepting multiple name variants (PPE, Fixed Assets, and Property_Plant_Equipment all map the same). Booleans accept yes, true, 1, ✓.

2

Trial balance per period

Coherence posts each one as a balanced General Journal Entry. Twelve months of history is live the first time you open the portfolio.

3

Refresh whenever you want

Re-upload a trial balance any time within a period — weekly, daily, whenever the numbers move. The portfolio updates to current. No waiting for close.

4

Steer.

And — when you're ready — flip any entity to native operations. The portfolio view works identically.

That's Coherence
Trend · Signal · Steer.
That's Coherence.
Per-entity pricing from $400 to $750/month · No per-user fees · No implementation charges
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