Know your runway. Pass diligence. Grow without switching accountants.
Daybook runs your startup's books the way founders actually need them: burn and runway read straight from your ledger, books that hold up when investors look, R&D credit captured all year — built to close in days, not weeks, and starting at a pre-revenue price, on a ledger built to grow from your first C-Corp filing toward your Series B.
Runway · June
Fenwick Labs
Cash on hand
Reviewed Jun 2 · your CPA
- of entries reviewed by a real CPA before posting
- 100%
- of entries reviewed by a real CPA before posting
- of payroll R&D credit available pre-revenue, per current IRS rules
- $500K
- of payroll R&D credit available pre-revenue, per current IRS rules
- accountants you switch as you grow from pre-seed to Series B
- 0
- accountants you switch as you grow from pre-seed to Series B
The two numbers you actually watch, read straight from your ledger.
Net burn and runway, updated every time your books close — not a spreadsheet you rebuild the night before a board meeting. Because they're read straight from your real ledger, they tie out to your financials every time. No more "which number is right?"
When an investor opens your books, they'll find them clean.
Your books stay clean and reconcilable month to month — the books early diligence expects, on an accrual-capable ledger — instead of getting reconstructed in a panic when a term sheet shows up. Every number traces to its source, so the story your deck tells matches the story your ledger tells.
Q2 (Apr–Jun) · Profit & Loss
Fenwick Labs
Operating expenses
Net loss narrowed $14,000.00 from Q1 to Q2, on an accrual-capable ledger — reviewed and reconciled by your CPA, closed Jun 30.
R&D spend · tagged all year
Fenwick Labs
- Engineering payrollDomestic$312,000.00
- ML research contractorsDomestic$64,000.00
- Model-training computeDomestic$28,000.00
Payroll research credit available: up to $500,000/year against payroll tax, per current IRS rules. We make the books that support the claim — your tax preparer files it.
Don't leave runway on the table at tax time.
R&D credit is real cash — for a qualified startup, under current IRS rules the payroll research credit can offset up to $500K a year against payroll tax, and it pays out even before you have revenue. Getting it right means tagging R&D spend all year, not reconstructing it in a scramble. We tag it as you go — including whether it's domestic or foreign — so the claim is a report, not a rescue mission. We make the books that support it; your tax preparer files it.
The bigger you get, the more your books matter — and the more likely your bookkeeper drops you.
As you scale — new hires, new revenue, a board that wants numbers — your books stay closed monthly, reconciled, and current, with a real CPA's sign-off. You focus on growth; we keep the books ready to hand to a board or investor, not scramble to reconstruct them the week diligence starts. Most bookkeeping services are built on a small-business ledger, so the day you hit accrual GAAP, deferred revenue, or a second entity, they hand you off to a bigger firm — right when your books matter most and switching hurts most. Daybook is built on a ledger designed for that growth from day one, so you never have to switch teams as you scale. Multi-entity consolidation, deferred revenue at scale, and equity accounting for a growing cap table are part of the full Daybook team's toolkit, brought in as your company reaches that stage — not features you switch on today, and never a bigger firm to onboard.
Your first C-Corp books
Human-reviewed books on an accrual-capable ledger, from day one. Live today.
Burn, runway, R&D credit
Read straight from your ledger, tagged all year — built to be ready before you need them.
Deferred revenue, multi-entity, equity at scale
Brought in by the same team exactly when you reach the stage that needs it — no re-platforming, no handoff to a bigger firm.
Fast books, still human-checked.
Same promise every Daybook client gets: AI drafts the repetitive work, a real accountant reviews and signs off, and nothing posts to your books unreviewed.
What founders say once the books stop being a fire drill.
“Our last close before Daybook took me an entire weekend, and I still wasn't sure the runway number was right. Now it's just correct, every month.”
SampleS. Park
Founder & CEO, Cascade Robotics
“Our first term sheet came with a data-room deadline. Our books were already clean — there was nothing to reconstruct.”
SampleT. Reyes
Co-founder, Fathom Health
“We've claimed our R&D credit two years running without a single scramble in March.”
SampleJ. Solis
Founder, Vantage Loop
Sample quotes for design purposes — replaced with real, consented customer voices before public launch.
The Accurate Books Guarantee.
If our error causes a mistake in your books, we find it, fix it, and make it right — free. That's not a disclaimer buried in a contract. It's how we think about being accountable for your numbers.
Covers errors in work Daybook performed and posted. Does not cover errors in information you provided.
We take on a small number of new companies each quarter, and work closely with each one.
See if Daybook fits your startup.
Tell us your stage, your structure, and what's on your plate. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team for you right now.