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IRIS is a 13-acquisition stack consolidating onto IFM. ficary is one platform with a ledger underneath.
Nominative comparison, not a partnership. Firm sales open when this suite is in the product. Tax prep stays last. ficary has not earned SOC 2, ISO 27001, or a HIPAA attestation.
| Axis | IRIS | ficary |
|---|---|---|
| Product line | Practice Engine, Star, Doc.It, IFM, and more | One app: books + firm rooms as they ship |
| Analytics | Power BI / Tableau on their stack | Client-books reports live. Firm BI embed is later |
| AI | Automation messaging; not category-leading | Suggest-and-confirm on the ledger; Protected SKU for isolation |
| Price | No public per-seat list we will invent | Owner Free/Pro. Firm SKU when clickable |
Choose IRIS when you are staying inside that portfolio and a mapped export is enough later.
Installed base in large North American firms. If you already run Practice Engine or Star, they have the data.
Choose ficary when the next IRIS consolidation is the migration you want to skip.
One product built as one product. No IFM-as-another-migration. Isolation and private AI as a SKU, not a bolt-on.
Map a native Practice Engine or Star export. Clients first, then work, then time. Email is reconnected. Do not re-key a ficary workbook.
Isolation and private inference: Protected SKU. No earned SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA badge. No client stories and no unpublished seat prices.
For a firm that wants one platform and a ledger, that is the direction. For a firm mid-IFM with Doc.It in production, stay until documents and mail are real here.
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Practice + books
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