Automated bookkeeping
for Schedule C filers.
Built by a CPA.

Content creators, freelancers, and solopreneurs who file Schedule C and are tired of bookkeeping tools that don't actually do the bookkeeping.

It’s the IRS form (Schedule C, Form 1040) that sole proprietors and single-member LLCs use to report business income and expenses — how freelancers, creators, and solo operators figure their net profit at tax time. If you get 1099s or run a business without a separate corporation, you almost certainly file one. Categorized sorts every transaction into the right Schedule C line so the form is ready when you need it.

This product was purpose built for content creators, freelancers, and solopreneurs who need accurate and affordable bookkeeping software. The founder is a CPA who has filed an ungodly number of Schedule Cs and reviewed thousands of sets of books. If Categorized shuts its doors, you’ll get your data. No exceptions.

Categorized benchmarks the categorizer against real transactions it has never seen — bank-feed text, cryptic merchant codes and all. In that testing, roughly 85% of all transactions are categorized correctly, and the high-confidence categorizations are right more than 99% of the time. The bigger difference is what happens to the rest: with Autopilot on, the lower-confidence transactions are still categorized — each one flagged for review on your ledger. Switch Autopilot off and they wait in your queue for you to decide.

It's designed to be — with guardrails, not blind trust. Every transaction the AI categorizes carries a confidence score. Autopilot is on for new businesses: it categorizes the lower-confidence transactions too, and everything it touches is flagged for review on your ledger. Switch it off anytime — it's per business — and anything below Categorized's confidence bar waits in your queue for you to categorize instead. Correct the same vendor to the same category three times and that becomes a rule. AI makes mistakes, so Categorized still recommends reviewing your ledger at least monthly.

You don't have to wait for a shutdown to get your books out. Your Schedule C and Profit & Loss export to plain CSV from inside the app — anytime, for any reason, at no extra charge. No proprietary format, no lock-in. And if you want your data deleted, ask — Categorized deletes it, apart from the narrow records that law and fraud-prevention require keeping. Categorized was built this way because of what Bench did to its clients: your books should never be trapped inside someone else's software.

Bookkeeping is a 12-month exercise. Auto-rule-learning, back-fills, and reconciliation get better the longer the system has your data. The pricing is honest about that — $19/mo per business, no tiers, no upsells, no free trial.