Building your AI finance co-worker
Hey YC! We’re Erin Kim and Nandini Ramakrishnan. Today, we’re re-launching Mesh – an AI bookkeeper that can match the speed of startup founders.
Background
Few weeks ago, we launched an auto-reconciliation tool for accounting firms. We've since discovered that many founders spend days monthly reconciling books themselves with accuracy concerns. Even those outsourcing were frustrated by inconsistencies, errors, and required intervention.
This led us to ask: can we fundamentally redesign startup bookkeeping?
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Problem
After talking to 50+ founders, we learned:
- Founders are busy and want to outsource bookkeeping
- Founders want a bookkeeper w/ full company context who doesn't require significant monthly supervision
- Founders need to make fast decisions with financial implications
For founders, bookkeeping enables informed real-time decisions about fundraising, investments, hiring, and more. Clean books become especially crucial during tax deadlines, rebate filings, 409a valuations, investor updates, and board meetings.
Transaction categorization, receipt/invoice matching, and manual Excel analysis create too much overhead for founders seeking financial insights.
Solution
Mesh is a fully AI-native bookkeeping service–one that keeps up with founders' decision-making speed. Mesh offers an AI-native chat letting founders ask questions about their financials as if talking to a live accountant. We translate accounting jargon into actionable insights for decision-making. No more waiting days for accountant responses or spending hours in Quickbooks.
Behind the scenes, we perform daily auto-reconciliation with Mesh at the center of your financial stack. By ingesting data across your banking, invoicing, point-of-sale, billing, expense management, and payroll systems, we enable multi-way reconciliations writing directly into your general ledger.
We're not in the business of rebuilding your financial stack. We meet founders exactly where they are, reading and writing financial data in the tools they currently use.
Our Ask
Are you a founder wanting to put your bookkeeping on autopilot? Let’s chat:
- Email us at founders@usemesh.com
- Schedule a demo
We keep your books balanced, so you can focus on growing your company.
-Erin & Nandini
