If you plan to grow, choosing the right accounting and bookkeeping partner is essential. Propeller offers “outsourcing” generally, and can do some finance tasks. Whereas Pilot specializes in accurate bookkeeping, accounting, CFO help, and tax. Pilot is a complete finance team to keep your business growing.
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Owners who love Pilot often say the same thing: “I never have to think about it.” They can simply trust the financials were done correctly and that they got all of what they needed and nothing they didn’t. Pilot gives you cash dashboards, time-saving AI, a human bookkeeper, and CFO-level strategy.
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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.
Metrics only matter if they apply to your business. Pilot customizes the standard metrics to your actual workflows and offers expert financial planning and analysis (FP&A).
Pilot also has an operations service that’ll do your bill pay, HR, payroll, banking, and more.
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Everything Pilot does comes with a service guarantee. We don’t just help you run your finances. We ensure they never stop running, so you keep growing.
Serious founders who can’t afford errors.
Investor-ready financials and audit-ready books.
Businesses that need experts in their model.
Venture-funded startups or those soon to raise.
There are business owners who prefer bringing a shoebox full of receipts to their accountant at the end of the year and communicating primarily by phone. If that is you, Propeller Industries may be a good fit.
Propeller Industries has full-time employees and no software portal. They bill hourly, and you can expect many people working on your account.
Because they don’t have a software platform to display your data, you will need other software licenses to set up dashboards and metrics.
Propeller Industries consultants are famously attentive, and this is generally good. But not when your time is scarce, you may find the meetings to be too much.
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You strongly prefer a traditional accounting approach.
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You plan to stay relatively the same size.
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You are uninterested in automation to reduce work
Six months into his business, founder David Petrou’s chief operations officer left. That means David inherited all those tasks—calculating runway, building spreadsheets, managing the bookkeeping, and more. David realized their Pilot CFO could step in, and within weeks, they had everything running smoothly—and freed David to focus on building the product.
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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?"
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.
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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