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.
wrs•5h ago
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.)
FredPret•5h ago
LLM engineer -> silicon psychologist who can sometimes sell the beast into making the year-end postings pass all tests?
presentation•4h ago
Yeah, I’m biased since my startup is a very non-AI payroll app, but trusting my finances to an LLM sounds frightening and the money saved is not much since just hiring an accountant whose neck is on the line to get it right just isn’t that expensive.
mmcn•4h ago
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.
JohnnyRebel•6h ago
wrs•5h ago
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.)
FredPret•5h ago
presentation•4h ago