LedgerGuardian — Real-Time Integrity, Snapshots, and Auto-Repair for Accounting Company Files

Legal & Professional Services September 11, 2025

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10/10

Demand Score

Corrupted or locked company files halt invoicing, payroll, and month-end close; every hour down directly impacts cash flow and compliance.

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7/10

Blue Ocean

Competition Level

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$350-2k

Price/Month

Predicted customer spend

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12 days

Time to MVP

Difficulty: Expert

The Problem

LedgerGuardian is a lightweight Windows agent + cloud service that creates continuous VSS snapshots and integrity checkpoints for accounting files (e.g., QuickBooks Desktop QBW, Sage). It performs con

🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints

This problem has been verified through 5 real user complaints:

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Competitor Landscape

Intuit File Doctor
Intuit Tool Hub
Rewind Backups
Datto File Protection
Right Networks (hosted)
Carbonite/CrashPlan

Must-Have Features for MVP

✓ Continuous VSS snapshotting with 5–10 min RPO

✓ Content-aware integrity scans for QBW/Sage patterns

✓ One-click rollback and guided forward-repair

✓ Ransomware/write-anomaly detection and quarantine

✓ File lock orchestration and active user visibility

✓ Immutable cloud backups with regional redundancy

✓ Full audit trails and chain-of-custody

✓ Encryption at rest/in transit, SSO, SOC2

✓ Offline recovery toolkit for air-gapped sites

✓ 24/7 rapid-response support channel

⚠️ Potential Challenges

Proprietary file formats and evolving versions
Windows permissions/VSS reliability across endpoints
Edge cases where auto-repair cannot guarantee full fidelity
Legal/disclaimer requirements for repair operations

Risk Level: High

🎯 Keys to Success

RPO under 10 minutes and RTO under 15 minutes for 95% of incidents
>90% automated repair success on known corruption classes
>70% reduction in file access conflicts
Customer-reported downtime reduced by 80%+

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