Choosing the right strategic financial and operations provider is crucial if you plan to grow. Pilot offers end-to-end help—books, tax, and advisory—that gives you the clarity to build with confidence. Whereas Bookkeeper360 is, as the name implies, really just bookkeeping.
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Pilot offers one integrated offering where you get AI-powered bookkeeping certified by a human, but also other services. Because we know your financials, we can prepare your taxes, offer CFO-level advisory, and manage payroll and invoicing. That’s pretty unique in this world.
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Pilot’s bookkeeping gets a 4.7 out of 5 stars on G2. It’s the #1-rated bookkeeping service there, serving 3,500 companies.
With Pilot, you get live dashboards showing your cash position, profit and loss statement, and vendors by spend. Because the books are human-certified, they’re correct.
With books as a foundation, Pilot can fill in missing areas of your business: Someone to make budgets, someone to forecast revenue, someone to manage invoicing, and so on.
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We keep your books accurate with AI-powered income and expense recognition plus an expert human bookkeeper
To unite your finances, not split them across vendors.
Cash dashboards to save you time.
Integrated tax preparation.
CFO advisors for planning and strategy.
Expert advisors to reassure your investors.
Bookkeeper360 may be a fit if you already have a well-staffed finance team and just need no-frills bookkeeping. They focus more on people and entering data than technology that saves you time, which has upsides and downsides. It does take longer. Bookkeeper360 also isn’t innovating or launching new features. Like the name implies, they deliver your books.
Bookkeeper360 doesn’t get anyone excited but it works and has a decent reputation, if you can get over the $1,000 onboarding fee.
Bookkeeper360 is just books. They offer some “additional services” but not a complete financial department that steps in to handle things to help you grow, like Pilot.
As a traditional accounting firm, Bookkeeper360 can’t grow faster than it can hire. Some owners say they ran into trouble during rapid expansions.
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You do not plan on growing—just maintaining.
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You don’t need a consistent person who knows your business.
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You have a finance team and just need bookkeeping.
Tyler runs a recruiting startup whose traditional accounting firm kept making mistakes over and over. He thought, “I have got to find someone who actually can learn us, and know our business.” A friend recommended Pilot. Over the next few years he grew from $30k in sales to $3 million.
Pilot gives me confidence in our numbers.
Move at startup speeds
Pilot’s CFOs are former VC and private equity people who’ve built companies and know the deadlines you’re under.
When we needed to hire in other states, Pilot helped us file.
Audit-read books and decks
With Pilot, you get a whole team of experts so whatever arises with payroll, invoices, payments, fundraising, or company strategy, we can help.
We’re doing 20% more revenue with the same headcount.
Integrated bookkeeping means more insight
With Pilot, you get a dedicated team doing your books and models, and that combination produces better insights.
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