If you plan to grow, choosing the right accounting and bookkeeping partner is essential. Kruze Consulting is a well-respected option, but founders say it’s expensive for what you get. Pilot offers the same services at a great quality but reasonable price. For most startups, Pilot does all you need.
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Pilot is half software, half people, to automate financial tasks and get you back to business. Pilot’s software platform means you always have access to live financials, but also humans you can chat with. Customers tell us the price-to-value is unbeatable
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Pilot’s CFO team come from VC and private equity and have helped 300+ startups raise $9 billion to date.
Pilot uses automation under the hood, but human bookkeeping experts review and certify your books. They handle exceptions, which is the key to saving you time.
Pilot a one-stop-shop service where you can consolidate most finance and back-office vendors into one team that knows all.
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Pilot’s bookkeeping and FP&A are triple-checked and audit-ready, which allows our CFOs to model, forecast, build decks, and help you prepare for due diligence.
Serious founders who want everything in one place.
Founders who don’t want to pay a premium.
People who value their time and appreciate software.
Venture-funded startups or those soon to raise.
Not every startup needs to start with the most expensive option, especially if they’re carefully managing runway, and their situation and your strategy may change. But for exquisitely complicated strategic questions and never-before-heard-of dilemmas, Kruze is a good option.
Kruze Consulting is the eye-watering upper end of the market.
Kruze does not have a tech platform, dashboard, or the ability to automate to continuously reduce your effort.
Kruze Consulting is famously attentive, and this is generally good. But not when your time is scarce and you need fewer meetings, not more.
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Money is not an object—only time is
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You strongly prefer a traditional accounting approach.
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You are uninterested in automation to reduce work.
Joe used to spend one full week each month preparing for his board meeting. When he got a Pilot CFO, they not only built models that he previously couldn’t, but they saved him 15 hours per week. Now he has a complete model and dashboards with the common metrics unpacked for their business, which he reviews daily.
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I’ve spent a lot of time financial modeling. I am good at that. Our Pilot CFO is a certified ninja.
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.
It’s a relief knowing that there’s another set of eyes and a trained algorithm paying attention to our books.
See your financials live
Pilot’s software portal lets you manage cash and spot trends. Chat with your books like you would ChatGPT to ask things like, “What have we spent on contractors?
I don’t think anyone would have any issue with our finances whatsoever, and that’s remarkable.
Rigorous models and forecasts
Pilot’s bookkeeping, CFO, tax filing, and operations services come with the guarantee to work like you hope.
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