The story of a bootstrapped AI-first bookkeeping app that lets small business owners talk to their financial data instead of wrestling with spreadsheets. Beta launching this September. Curious if HN thinks this is the future of accounting or just another shiny tool.
This and other data analysis front ends could be a fantastic application for LLMs + tool use.
It’s also a market where getting the wrong answer could result in huge liability, so at this point you’re really rolling the dice that you’re a great LLM whisperer. (There’s no such thing as an LLM engineer, at least not yet.)
That’s exactly the question we’re testing. Will this feel like the future of bookkeeping, or just another tool? We’re launching the beta in a week and are eager to see how real users respond. Curious what you think would make this genuinely useful vs. gimmicky?
Enabling an agent to query financial data really helps on the analysis side. How are you tackling the data ingestion side? The challenge I’ve seen again and again is logging financial data from different sources in a consistent way such that it is able to be aggregated and queried. I’ve been curious if AI can help there.
> “Traditional bookkeeping software assumes its users are trained accountants.”
That’s not the way QuickBooks community talks about their software. I’ve not been in their forums for a while, but a common refrain was to stop users from _trying_ to think like accountants. They would say it’s not the way of QB.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 23.4 ms ] threadIt’s also a market where getting the wrong answer could result in huge liability, so at this point you’re really rolling the dice that you’re a great LLM whisperer. (There’s no such thing as an LLM engineer, at least not yet.)
> “Traditional bookkeeping software assumes its users are trained accountants.”
That’s not the way QuickBooks community talks about their software. I’ve not been in their forums for a while, but a common refrain was to stop users from _trying_ to think like accountants. They would say it’s not the way of QB.