Choosing the right bookkeeping and operations provider is crucial if you plan to grow. Decimal offers operational help and does light financial tasks. Whereas Pilot offers strong bookkeeping plus the whole package—investor-ready financials, tax filing, and help running payroll.
Pilot’s customers love that they get a smart team of humans using AI automation to surface insights via our live dashboards, but also deep financial analysis. Pilot can also do your taxes, invoicing, bill pay, payroll, and more, with a goal of increasing revenue.
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With Pilot, you get live dashboards showing your cash position, profit and loss, and vendors by spend. Because your books are human-certified, you can trust the numbers.
Pilot’s CFO team can help you with company strategy, deck building, and financial modeling. They’ve helped companies raise $9 billion to date.
Pilot is full-service: We can do your taxes, help you set up and track metrics, manage your payroll and invoices, and more.
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Pilot backs up your data in QuickBooks so if anything should change, you aren’t locked in. Your data is yours.
Serious founders who can’t waste time.
Startups that need to know what investors want.
Businesses seeking strong, audit-ready compliance.
Business owners who want to grow.
Read the online reviews and you’ll see a theme: Decimal is an operations company that happens to handle some finance tasks. But if you are applying for the R&D tax credit, need to raise capital, and want an advisor who’s built companies before, they may fall short.
Decimal is good for automating non-critical back-office tasks. But they aren’t a service that growing companies trust to help them make financial decisions.
Decimal can advise on businesses generally. But if you’re in life sciences, advertising, junk-hauling, or anything outside basic retail, you may find yourself Googling answers.
Instead of using an industry standard like QuickBooks, Decimal has its own method. Your data isn’t transferable.
You plan to stay small for now.
You are a business that deals in physical cash.
You have an appetite to check your own finances.
When Iba at Optimal AI launched her company, she had four weeks to get their books in order to raise money. She couldn't risk any missteps. She hired Pilot to clean up the bookkeeping, and they identified all sorts of other operational tasks like helping her hire. Iba impressed investors and raised $2 million.
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Pilot gives me confidence in our numbers. In a fast-moving startup, there’s no room for guesswork.
Know your financials are accurate
Pilot’s process ensures that the numbers you see are true and you don’t have to always double-check.
Pilot is a partner we can trust. After going through multiple accounting firms and a DIY effort, we couldn’t be happier.
Get advice that helps you grow
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.
Rely on an enduring partner
Pilot has been around for eight years and 3,500+ businesses trust them to do their accounting, bookkeeping, and strategy.
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