About

The practice behind the platform.

Outpost Cloud isn’t a startup chasing a hosting market. It’s shared infrastructure built and operated alongside Geiger Tax & Accounting — an Amityville, NY practice led by Chris Geiger, a tax accountant with 25+ years advising small businesses on accounting, best practices, and tax preparation. Serving businesses and individuals on Long Island, in New York State, and throughout the nation.

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Two entities, one practice

How the pieces fit together.

Geiger Tax & Accounting is the professional services firm. Outpost Cloud is a separate LLC that operates the shared QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise environment its clients and affiliated bookkeepers work in.

The practice

Geiger Tax & Accounting

Amityville, NY. Small business focus — advisory, best-practices consulting, and tax preparation for S-corporations, partnerships, closely held LLCs, and a heavy volume of personal 1040s. Clients on Long Island and across the country.

  • 25+ years in accounting, advisory, and tax
  • Multi-entity owners and closely held companies
  • Bookkeeping cleanup and year-round advisory
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The infrastructure

Outpost Cloud

A separate entity that operates the shared QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise environment behind the practice. Not sold retail. Access comes through a Geiger Tax client engagement or through the affiliated bookkeeper network.

  • Intuit Authorized Commercial Hosting
  • One QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise license, unlimited files
  • Shared by the Geiger Tax practice & its affiliates
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Who runs it

Chris Geiger. 25+ years on the books.

Chris Geiger, founder of Outpost Cloud and Geiger Tax & Accounting, Amityville NY

The work is what you’d expect from a small-business tax accountant who’s done it for a quarter century: contractors, retailers, professional services firms, and multi-entity owners who need their books, their strategy, and their tax return to actually line up at year end. The accounting side, the operational best practices, the returns for the entities and the people behind them — all of it under one roof.

Long Island clients anchor the practice. The work has followed clients across New York State and the rest of the country for years.

All of it runs on QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise. Always has. After years of watching clients and affiliated bookkeepers wrestle with getting to the same QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise environment from different offices, different laptops, different machines, Chris built the shared hosting setup that eventually became Outpost Cloud.

Why it exists

Infrastructure built by a practice, for a practice.

Most cloud hosting products are built by hosting companies. Outpost Cloud wasn’t. It was built inside a working accounting and tax practice, to solve a working accounting and tax practice’s problem: how to get a group of bookkeepers and clients into the same QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise environment without giving up the speed and depth of the native desktop application.

That origin shapes how it runs. The environment matches how the practice actually works with clients and affiliates — consolidated company files, shared reporting, clean handoffs at year end. It isn’t a generic hosting product with a login page. It’s the inside of a practice.

Talk to the practice
behind the platform.

15 minutes on the phone tells us whether the fit is there — whether you’re on Long Island or across the country.

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