Choosing the right financial 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 QuickBooks Live is a budget service that most freelancers and micro businesses grow out of quickly, especially once they need customer support.
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Pilot’s team of experts know how to help companies grow. That’s why rather than juggling multiple vendors, you get one dedicated expert bookkeeper and one software, which has the top-rated Quickbooks Online integration on the app store. If needed, Pilot also offers CFO advisory, tax prep, and invoicing help.
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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.
Pilot offers cash dashboards on top of QuickBooks that reviewers call “modern,” “sleek,” and “time-saving.” It frames your books in terms you care about—expenses, cash, and insights.
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.
QuickBooks Live is generally seen as a step above doing your own books, but not full GAAP-certified accounting. While they provide a dedicated bookkeeper to each account, customers online complain that they cycle through several per year. There is also no wider finance offering: No CFO consulting and no operational support like payroll. For companies planning to grow, it’s often not enough.
QuickBooks Live offers bookkeeping, but customers often describe it as “like an assembly line.” Customers give it 4 out of 5 stars on G2.
As happens with large companies, QuickBooks requires you to navigate a phone tree for help.
QuickBooks Live offers tax advice and business coaching. Customers say these offerings are transactional and that the experts move too fast to learn their business.
There is no way to produce visual charts to answer questions, like you find in Pilot. Everything looks like a spreadsheet.
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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.
"Even initial clean-up has left a mess for the bookkeeper they assigned us"
"BEWARE - Zero Ability to Contact Assistance/Support"
"Terrible service, even worse customer service"
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"I do know they're working on improvements, which I hope will be implemented soon."
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.
Reliable finances let you get back to business
Pilot’s CFOs are former VC and private equity people who’ve built companies. They know great finance, and you get the highest quality expertise
Danielle is an absolute ninja.
You get to know your bookkeeper
With Pilot, you get a whole team of experts who stay with you year after year. Whatever arises, they’re there, and know your business.
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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