DAY TEN — Finance before the finance hire.

You raised money.
Nobody owns the month.

Payroll exists now. So do cards, Stripe, bills and board updates. The books cannot stay a founder side project.

Too real to ignore. Too early for a finance hire. DAY TEN is the part in between.

Founder does itYour time

Books happen after fundraising, hiring, product and customers.

First finance hire$8k–$15k+/mo

Potentially excellent. Also a full salary before the job needs one.

DAY TEN$795/mo

The recurring work gets owned. Hire finance later, when there is a finance job.

Finance should become boring long before you hire a finance team.

01–03
Get reality into the ledger.
Bank feeds, cards, payroll, bills and reimbursements. The things someone paid personally and forgot to mention.
04–06
Reconcile it.
Cash, cards, payroll, receivables and payables. Exceptions get chased instead of becoming permanent.
07–09
Review the month.
Accruals, misclassifications, unusual spikes and founder questions are resolved before the numbers leave us.
10
Close.
You receive last month’s P&L, balance sheet and cash/runway view. The books stop moving.

P&LBalance sheetCash + runwayQuestions answered

per month · US$500 onboarding once

Bounded work closes on time. If complexity grows, you see the price before we do it.

We work in QBO or Xero, inside your account. Starting from spreadsheets? Onboarding sets up the ledger.

No shared bank passwords.We work inside your QBO or Xero account.
Bank feeds stay connected.Cash data moves between your bank and your ledger.
MFA on our side.Every login, as standard.
Cover in place.Professional indemnity and cyber insurance.

Send the current version, however it looks. No demo funnel. No long discovery call unless we need one.