Your books, built to survive diligence.
Human-reviewed, accrual-capable books at a pre-revenue price. Burn and runway read straight from your ledger — closed in days, not weeks, with R&D credit captured all year.
From your first C-corp filing toward your Series B — same team, same ledger, no switching accountants.
Cash on hand
$148,200.00Revenue / mo
$22,640.00Net burn / mo
$15,900.00
Safe to spend: ~$11,200.00 this month and stay above your 6-month reserve.
Burn and runway is the only number that matters — and yours is a week stale.
Rebuilt from a spreadsheet the night before a board meeting, pulled from three different tools that don't agree with each other, always a little behind the real ledger.
Board
What's our runway right now?Founder
9.3 months, current to today — pulled straight from the ledger.
Investors ask for diligence, and your books aren't ready.
A term sheet arrives with a data-room deadline, and the books get reconstructed in a panic instead of just being handed over.
Clean and reconcilable, every month
Not a spring cleanup — the books stay closed and current all year.
Every entry traceable
A download, not a project. The story your deck tells matches your ledger.
Accrual, ASC 606, SAFEs — past what a bookkeeper can call.
Deferred revenue, a convertible note, a judgment call on when revenue is actually earned — most bookkeeping services simply aren't built for it.
Founder
Is this SAFE a liability or equity on our books?Your CPA
Booked to convertible-instrument equity — flagged for your next 409A.
R&D credit, left on the table every March.
Real cash, given away because R&D spend never got tagged as it happened — a reconstruction under deadline instead of a report that was ready all along.
$500,000
In payroll R&D credit available pre-revenue
Per current IRS rules — tagged domestic vs. foreign spend all year, so the claim is a report, not a rescue mission. We make the books that support it; your tax preparer files it.
c/fAccrual-capable, diligence-ready, credit-captured — the ledger already holds it.
b/fNow, what happens as you grow.
You'll outgrow whoever you hire now.
Most bookkeeping services are built on a small-business ledger — the day you hit accrual GAAP, deferred revenue, or a second entity, they hand you to a bigger firm, right when your books matter most.
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 — 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.
Accountable, and already fluent in accrual.
The same team from your first C-corp filing through your Series B — no hand-off.
Bookkeeping
Daily, not monthly
Keeps every transaction categorized and reconciled against your ledger, daily.
Posts the drafts
CPA review
Judgment calls
Calls the judgment on accrual timing, SAFEs, and R&D qualification.
Authorized signer
Your point of contact
One person, always
Owns the relationship — the person your board can call directly, any time.
Owns the relationship
What founders get back.
Of entries reviewed
By a real CPA, before anything posts.
Payroll R&D credit available
Pre-revenue, per current IRS rules.
Accountants switched
From pre-seed all the way to Series B.
c/fReviewed, credited, and never a hand-off — the same team, the whole way.
b/fNow, who this is actually built for.
Built for funded, Delaware C-corp startups — pre-seed through Series B.
Real investors, a real cap table, and books that need to hold up to both. If that's not you, we'll say so.
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