Month-end closing used to be a frantic, two-week sprint to reconcile ledgers and zero out accounts. With Rillet’s AI-native ERP, most transactions post and balance in real time. In the 56 Rillet customers surveyed, 99.86% of entries happen automatically the moment data arrives, leaving under 1% of entries for manual review in 87% of cases. A handful of firms—about 2%—still rely on older batch processes, but they’re the exception. Automation extends beyond continuous closing. Data flows in from finance tools, CRMs, billing systems and integrations without human keystrokes. Some companies still key in 5–15% of entries by hand, often because their tech stack isn’t fully integrated. Those manual entries tend to show up in service-based B2B firms, which record more complex transactions and need extra judgment at period-end. Consumer-facing outfits, by contrast, crank through more transactions per revenue dollar but wrap up close to fully automated books. Complexity grows with corporate structure. Single-entity businesses staff minimal month-end checks. As companies span four or more entities, revenue and billing entries shrink from 58% to 38% of the ledger, yet they still close continuously without a big period-end rush. Rillet’s data maps closely to Angela Strange and Seema Amble’s 2020 pyramid: routine entries now automate away, while judgmental work concentrates at the top, especially in multi-entity and B2B settings. Continuous close isn’t a concept anymore—it’s simply how modern books run.