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17 November 2025: Hey Monika Wins AI Innovation of the Year at the ICB LUCA Awards
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Hey Monika has just been named AI Innovation in Bookkeeping (AI Innovation of the Year) at the ICB LUCA Awards 2025 – and we are still in shock.
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On 17 November 2025, at what the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers calls the “Oscars of the bookkeeping world”, Hey Monika beat entries from some of the biggest names in the industry – Xero, Dext, Sage and Just Ask – to win the AI Innovation category.
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This award means so much because Hey Monika isn’t a project we planned years in advance. None of us ever set out thinking, “One day we’ll build a piece of software.” We’re bookkeepers and accountants who saw the same gap over and over again: bookkeepers need real-world experience and confidence, not just theory and exams. So we built something to fix that – and the profession has just said, “Yes, this matters.”
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Thank you so much to you, our customers, and the industry for your support with this amazing project.
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Photo Credit; The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers.
5 October 2025: The First Hack-a-Mon
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We spent the weekend together in Wales building a new way for you to gain work experience. It's called Challenge Mode and this is how we'll align the scenarios you practice with the text book training you completed for your exams. Our software team has built the mock-up for the Challenge Mode view, and we've been working hard to drop in the first Challenges. We've started with a Basic Bank Rec, year end Accounts Receivable working paper, and Accounts Payable working paper. The next Hack-a-Mon is on 26th October.
1 October 2025: Awards Nominations
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We're thrilled to have been shortlisted for three awards at The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers' LUCAs this November. Hey Monika has been shortlisted for:
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AI Innovation in Bookkeeping
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Bookkeepers' Friendliest Software of the Year
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Emerging App of the Year
Thanks so much to everyone who voted for us in the entry process, we can't wait to see you at the LUCA awawrds, to celebrate the amazing achievement of making the shortlist.