BC&V Free Agency
Roster
Signed Signing 01 · 2026 class

BC&V signs K-1
Splitter

Copies every recipient's complete K-1 package out of a business return into its own PDF. Partners, shareholders, beneficiaries. Any preparer's return, including scanned ones.

Position
Document handling
Contract
Multi-year
Terms
None, included
Available
Now, both offices
K-1 SPLITTER 01

Roster spot 01 · BC&V Advisors + CPAs

Combine results

The measurables

3-5
Minutes per return

Whole return, start to finish, whatever the recipient count.

3
Return types

1065, 1120-S and 1041. It detects which one on its own.

0
Source files modified

It only ever writes copies. The original is never touched.

Head to head

Tale of the tape

The headline is not the minutes saved on one small return. It is that the old way charges you again for every recipient and this does not.

Doing it by hand K-1 Splitter
Return with 5 K-1s 10 to 15 min 3 to 5 min
Each additional recipient Another 2 to 3 min, every time No additional time
Return types Whichever you can read 1065, 1120-S, 1041, auto-detected
Another firm's return No shortcuts, page by page Anchors on the K-1 form itself, so the preparer does not matter
Scanned return Read it off the screen and retype Falls back to OCR
File naming However you typed it that day Identical every run, template configurable
The source PDF Open in front of you, one stray save away Never modified
A call it is unsure about You may not notice Flagged in the run summary, every time

Timings are BC&V's own measurements on a 5 recipient return, not a vendor claim. The per recipient figure is derived from that same measurement. Your mileage varies with the return.

Pre-signing evaluation

Scouting report

Every honest scouting report lists what a player cannot do yet. These weaknesses are lifted from the skill's own documentation, unedited in substance.

Strengths

  • Reads the whole floor. Anchors on the federal Schedule K-1 page rather than a cover letter, so it works on returns from any preparer, not just our own Drake output.
  • Takes the entire package. Cover letter, filing instructions, the K-1, and that recipient's supplemental, QBI and basis pages all travel together.
  • Knows when to stop. On the last recipient it stops before return-level content instead of sweeping up the rest of the return behind it.
  • Plays through contact. If a page has no readable text it rasterizes and runs OCR.
  • Makes the extra pass. It does not force the judgment call. An ambiguous page gets flagged and handed to the preparer to take the shot.
  • Same name on the back every night. Output naming is consistent run to run, and the template is configurable.

Areas for development

  • Names off a bare form. With no cover letter to read, the recipient name is best effort because layouts vary by software. It flags those for a rename rather than pretending.
  • The last recipient's tail. Heuristic, deliberately conservative, and always worth an eyeball.
  • Batched state K-1s. If a preparer stacks every recipient's state K-1s at the end of the return, a middle recipient's state copy can be left out.
  • No editing game. It copies pages as they are. It does not redact, re-flatten, or alter content.

Front office note. The source return is always retained, so anything missed is recoverable from the original. Read the flags it gives you. The flags are the point. Past that it just pounds the rock: the same unglamorous job on the four hundredth return as on the first.

How it fits the system

Putting it in the game

Say any of these

  • split K-1s
  • break out the K-1s
  • separate the K-1s
  • one K-1 per partner

Or just point at the return, or at a K1 Documents (ENTITY).pdf, and say what you want out of it. You do not have to use the exact wording.

What you get back

One PDF per recipient, plus a run summary listing every file, its page count, and the pages it came from. Named like this:

2025 ACME PARTNERS LP K-1 - Dana Whitfield.pdf

Then read the flags block underneath. If the recipient count is not what you expected, or one file is far longer than the others, stop and look before you send anything.

Introductory press conference

From the podium

"We were not adding for the sake of adding. This is a role player and that is exactly what we wanted. It knows the system, it does the unglamorous thing every single time, and nobody has to run a play for it. April is long enough without somebody sitting there dragging pages out of a PDF one at a time."
Adam Valdez
Owner
"Fundamentals over flash. What sold me was that it tells you when it is not sure. Plenty of tools would rather look confident than be right. This one makes the extra pass and lets the preparer take the shot, and that is worth more to us than the speed."
Nick Carlson
Owner
"I pound the rock. Same swing, same return, every time. I find every recipient, I give each one their own file, and I put the original back exactly where I found it. If I am unsure about a page, I say so out loud instead of guessing. I am not here to take the shot."
K-1 Splitter
Number 01

2026 signing class

The roster

Every skill we bring in gets a number. We would rather develop a roster than chase a headline, so the wall fills up one signing at a time.

01
K-1 Splitter
You are here
02
Roster spot open
To be announced
03
Roster spot open
To be announced
04
Roster spot open
To be announced
05
Roster spot open
To be announced
06
Roster spot open
To be announced

See the full roster