Choosing the right strategic financial and operations provider is crucial if you plan to grow. Pilot and Burkland’s offerings might appear similar. But only Pilot uses automation to eliminate work, gives you real-time dashboards, and has CFO advisors who move as fast as you do.
Pilot offers one integrated offering where you get a trusted CFO advisor and top-tier tech. Instead of splitting your services across a traditional accounting firm, a software, and contractors, Pilot does it all—and does it well. We’ve helped startups raise $9 billion to date and impress investors.
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Pilot’s strategic CFO advisors come from VC and private equity. They can help you fundraise, craft your story, build decks, and model your business.
We keep your books unimpeachably accurate with AI-powered income and expense recognition plus an expert human bookkeeper. That human element is a vital time-saver.
With Pilot, you get live dashboards showing your cash position, profit and loss, and vendors by spend. Because the books are human-certified, they’re correct.
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Pilot’s outsourced operations team can help you incorporate, manage banking, set up software, create new workflows, and free you to focus on growth.
To unite your finances, not split them across vendors.
A strategic finance partner skilled in fundraising
A partner with a tech platform built for scale.
Expert advisors to reassure your investors.
Burkland Associates and Pilot sometimes partner on projects, where the firm’s two decades of experience help them work with big VC firms. But there are tradeoffs. Burkland charges hourly, always writes a custom scope, moves slowly, and tends to outsource the bookkeeping work. If they are your primary strategic finance partner, you are creating silos in your data.
Burkland is well-respected in the industry and has a great track record. They have also been around since before Facebook or iPhones, and you pay for that brand.
Burkland doesn’t specialize in bookkeeping or operations the way Pilot does. Many customers opt to find their own bookkeeper and operations help.
As a traditional accounting firm, Burkland Associates can’t grow faster than it can hire. Some founders say they ran into trouble during rapid expansions.
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You have a truly unique finance challenge.
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You can afford to move at a “wood-paneled office” pace.
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You handle all your bookkeeping and operations in-house.
When Leo’s investor recommended he hire a fractional CFO, he balked. Leo comes from finance. He knew modeling. But he was so impressed with his Pilot CFO’s modeling, he realized he could let it go and finally focus on growth. "One of the biggest benefits of working with Pilot early is they have a view across hundreds of startups and can say, ‘You’re on track,’ which was very helpful validation,” he says.
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Pilot gives me confidence in our numbers. In a fast-moving startup, there’s no room for guesswork
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.
I consider Pilot a signal of maturity to our investors.
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.
I don’t think anyone would have any issue with our finances whatsoever, and that’s remarkable.
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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