At in-house tax practices, the same bottleneck shows up regardless of document type. Files land in Box, and before any real work can start, someone has to sort them by client, figure out what each one is, and get the data into the systems downstream. A single family office upload might include tax returns, formation documents, statements, and trust agreements, each needing different handling, all of it done by hand.

That sorting isn’t the job. It’s the tax on getting to the job. LEA removes it: files land in a secure Box folder and come out the other side classified, organized, and translated into structured data the downstream system can use immediately. No manual sorting, no re-entry, no one tracking down what’s still missing.

The outcome is a shift in when work actually starts. Tax season prep begins the moment documents are complete, not whenever someone finishes filing them. For a practice on-boarding a family office with dozens of document types across multiple service lines, that freed capacity goes to case work, not clerical routing.