Adaptive branching
Forks on filing status, state, life events, business and rental activity. Sole proprietor, multi-state, new parent — all covered.
Grove replaces your 40-page intake form with one adaptive conversation. It asks what's relevant for each client and skips everything else. Three times the completion rate, done in a sitting.
It knows the client's filing status, entities, dependents, and history before the conversation starts.
Only the topics that matter for this client appear. Anything answered by the prior return is skipped.
Every response is tagged to a return line or workpaper for review.
Forks on filing status, state, life events, business and rental activity. Sole proprietor, multi-state, new parent — all covered.
No "qualified joint venture" or "QBI threshold." Clients hear what to do, not what the form is called.
If the prior year answers a question, Grove doesn't ask it again. Returning clients fly through.
Clients finish on their own schedule. State persists. Progress is shared with your team.
Vague or incomplete answers prompt a clarifying question — automatically, in the client's own thread.
Handles part-year residency, multiple K-1s, foreign income, and dependents with complex situations.
Returning W-2 clients often finish in 4-6 minutes. New clients with multiple income sources or businesses can take 15-25 minutes — still meaningfully faster than a paper organizer.
Yes. Add custom questions globally or per client segment (e.g., "Did you make any crypto sales?" for a niche practice). Questions can be conditional on prior answers.
English at launch. Spanish is in private beta. Tell us what else your client base needs.
Yes — multi-state residency, part-year moves, K-1s in multiple states, foreign accounts (FBAR/8938 triggers), and basic non-resident situations are all in scope.
It cross-references the prior-year brief, the documents already uploaded, and answers given earlier in the conversation. If a topic is settled, it doesn't come up.
Grove asks a follow-up. If the answer is still unclear, the question gets flagged for preparer review — never silently misinterpreted.
Six minutes, three times the completion rate, none of the follow-up emails.