Company: april
Co-Founder and CEO, Co-Founder and CTO: Ben Borodach, Daniel Marcous
Website: www.getapril.com
About april
april is proving that AI can succeed in one of the most complex, regulated, and trust-sensitive areas of consumer finance by pairing AI with deterministic, graph-based reasoning to interpret tax code, transaction data, and customer circumstances with accuracy and consistency at scale.
Founded in 2021, the company has built an AI-powered embedded tax platform that enables banks, fintechs, payroll providers, and wealth platforms to deliver tax filing, year-round planning, and real-time tax intelligence directly inside the products their customers already use.
What sets april apart in the crowded AI market is not simply that it uses AI, but that it applies AI in a domain where precision, compliance, and trust are non-negotiable.
Rather than relying on opaque automation alone, april combines AI with deterministic tax logic and filing infrastructure to power compliant, personalised outcomes across filing and planning workflows. april’s use of AI has made them 20x more efficient at turning tax law into code.
That approach has helped april become the first new national e-file provider in more than 15 years and secure IRS e-file authorisation in all 50 states, a milestone reached by only a small number of providers in U.S. history.
In addition to using AI to enable its tax engine, april has leveraged AI to streamline the filing experience for millions of tax payers. Users are able to easily mass upload their documents, and april’s AI capabilities will auto-recognise and prefill filing data. A dynamic tax dependency graph cuts unnecessary questions in real time. The results demonstrate that april’s AI powered filing experience is not theoretical; it is already operating at national scale.
In the 2026 tax season, april reached 4 million taxpayers across more than 50 partner platforms, filed more than 1.4 million federal and state returns, and processed $2 billion in refunds and payments, making it the eighth largest online tax provider in the United States in just four years. Most returns are completed in under 20 minutes, compared with the IRS-reported norm of roughly eight hours, earning april’s filing experience an NPS score of 76.
april’s AI powered tax engine also extends beyond filing season. Its platform supports withholding optimisation, estimated payments, and real-time tax intelligence tied to major financial decisions.
Through integrations such as Nasdaq Private Market and its wealth management platform, april helps users, advisors, and firms model the tax impact of equity transactions and other high-stakes financial events at the point of decision.
In a market full of AI claims, april stands out by demonstrating that AI can power trusted, compliant, high-impact financial infrastructure in the real world.
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