Punctuations.ai Book Audit
ERISA Benefits Filing July 31 deadline Wave 1 of 6

Your 5500 cycle
eats 3–5 person-
weeks.

Get them back.

Form-agnostic AI for the benefits team that has to assemble the source data your TPA can't — and still sign the filing under penalty of perjury.

No commitment. You keep the written gap-list either way.

3–5 wks

recovered per cycle

76%

faster Sch C recon

100%

figures cited to source

The reality

What makes Form 5500
still a manual process.

The TPA can draft it. Only your team can source it. And every year, across payroll systems, carrier portals, recordkeeper exports, and broker disclosure packets, assembling clean data takes weeks that shouldn't exist.

Source data is scattered

Payroll exports, trustee statements, recordkeeper files, broker schedules — every vendor uses a different layout, every year.

The TPA can't fill the gaps

They process what you send. Reconciling participant counts, late deposits, and Schedule C fees back to source documents is your job.

You sign under penalty of perjury

The plan administrator's signature isn't ceremonial. If numbers move between draft and final, you need to know why — fast.

July 31 is non-negotiable

Extensions cost. Late filings trigger DOL penalties. Q2 swallows three to five person-weeks of senior benefits time — every year.

Audit trails matter years later

A DOL or IRS inquiry can land 2–3 years after filing. The person who built the workbook may be gone. The trail had better not be.

Schedule C is a minefield

Indirect comp, eligible indirect comp, broker disclosures — reconciling 408(b)(2) packets to Schedule C lines is where filings get reopened.

How it works

Form-agnostic AI,
built for the 5500 source-pack.

Four passes. Each one closes a specific gap between what your TPA needs and what your vendors actually send.

Ingesting 4 vendors — any format

CSV Payroll export — ADP
✓ parsed
PDF Recordkeeper statement — Fidelity
✓ parsed
XLS Trustee report — Northern Trust
✓ parsed
FW Broker schedule — fixed-width legacy
✓ parsed
XML Stop-loss carrier portal export
✓ parsed
5 vendor files · 5 different formats · 1 unified source pack
The outcome

From three weeks
to three days.

Punctuations.ai reads every vendor format your team currently re-keys by hand. It builds a reconciliation worksheet that points to the source page and line — so when the DOL asks two years later, the trail is right there.

  • Form-agnostic — no vendor template needed
  • Citations back to source page and line, every figure
  • Human-in-the-loop sign-off before the TPA receives it
  • ISO 27001-aligned data handling, BAA and MNDA on request
See the full filing workflow →
Before
After Punctuations
Schedule A — carriers
⚠ 2 of 4 portals still pending
Schedule A — carriers
✓ All 4 received & cited
Schedule C — indirect comp
⚠ Still chasing 3 vendors
Schedule C — indirect comp
✓ 408(b)(2) reconciled, all lines
Participant count
⚠ Payroll vs recordkeeper mismatch
Participant count
✓ Reconciled to source row
Audit trail
⚠ Workbook with no source links
Audit trail
✓ Every figure cited to page & line
Sign-off
✗ Can't sign — 4 items open
Sign-off
✓ 0 open items — sign with confidence
3–5 weeks
3 days
3–5 wks

of senior benefits-team time recovered per filing cycle

76%

faster reconciliation of Schedule C indirect compensation

100%

of source figures cited back to vendor document and page

From benefits leaders

Q2 stopped owning
their calendar.

"The Source-Pack Audit caught two participant-count discrepancies our TPA would have rolled forward. The trail to the payroll export was already built."

Anita R.

Director of Benefits

"I sign the 5500 under penalty of perjury. For the first time, I knew exactly where every number came from before I signed."

Marcus L.

VP People Operations

"Schedule C used to take us a full week. Reconciling 408(b)(2) packets to indirect comp lines now happens overnight."

Priya S.

Senior Benefits Manager

Common questions

From benefits, legal,
and infosec teams.

Does this replace our TPA?

No. Your TPA still prepares and submits the filing. Punctuations.ai builds the source-pack you send them — cleaner, faster, and reconciled.

What does the free 2-hour audit actually deliver?

A written gap-list mapped to the 5500 instructions, scoped against your last filing's source files. You keep the document whether or not we move forward.

How is the data handled?

ISO 27001-aligned. Files are processed in an isolated tenant, encrypted in transit and at rest, and purged on schedule. We sign BAAs and standard MNDAs.

What other filings does this cover?

Form 5500 is W1. The same form-agnostic engine handles W2 Loan Doc Archaeology, W3 Blueprint Takeoff, W4 K-1 Intake, W6 NAIC Annual Statement, and W8 1099 + Brokerage.

We're past July 31 this year. Still worth auditing?

Yes. Auditing the cycle you just finished is the best time — the source files are fresh, and you have nine months to rebuild your process before the next one.

Free · No Commitment · Yours to Keep

Get the next 5500 cycle
off your calendar.

Book the free 2-hour Source-Pack Audit. We return a written gap-list against the 5500 instructions — yours to keep either way.

ERISA  ·  Benefits Filing  ·  ISO 27001-aligned data handling