Jonathan Reich

Dext is what happens when you take the worst part of bookkeeping (chasing receipts, keying invoices, decoding random Amazon purchases, etc.) and hand it to software that actually knows what a chart of accounts is.  For firms and growing businesses, this can give you hours back. For small teams or price-sensitive clients, the cost and … Read more

If Ramp is your spend nerve center, your accounting system is the brain stem that either passes clean data or pure noise.  The good news is that Ramp now plays well with a growing list of ledgers and ERPs. The better news (for founders and finance teams who like to sleep) is that some platforms … Read more

Mercury is a fintech platform that provides modern business banking without the branch. It’s not a bank itself; it simply works with partner banks to offer FDIC-insured checking and savings, corporate cards, and a growing suite of tools for bill pay, invoicing, treasury, and spend management. Overall, it’s pretty versatile and not a bad way … Read more

On paper, revenue recognition is simple enough: It’s just recognizing revenue when you actually deliver value to the customer, rather than when the cash hits the bank. But in practice, it means: You can brute-force this with spreadsheets and generic ledgers for a while, but as you grow, your rev rec workbook turns into a … Read more

Online notarization has gone from a weird pandemic workaround to just how everyone signs stuff now. And if you handle real estate closings, loan docs, powers of attorney, or HR paperwork across state lines, you’ve almost certainly bumped into NotaryCam in that shift. To me, it’s like DocuSign, where everyone was originally super hesitant to … Read more

Most “easy” accounting software is lying to you. The login screen looks friendly. The demo video feels smooth. But once you get past the tour, you are three clicks deep in “Chart of Accounts” hell, trying to remember if this thing lives in Settings, Lists, or Some Random Gear Icon. Today, I want to put … Read more

If you run a growing company, your accounting stack is either your secret weapon… or the reason you’re thinking about throwing in the towel at the end of every month. You have payroll over here, card spend over there, bills in someone’s inbox, and a bank feed that drops data on its own schedule. Then … Read more

If you’ve raised a little money and your startup has graduated from a side project to a real company, you’ve probably had the late-night anxiety of “I really need to get my administrative work under my thumb.” After all, if you don’t have trued-up and accurate financials, you’re a rudderless ship that doesn’t know how … Read more

Digits and Fincent both sit somewhere between DIY and old-school, outsourced bookkeeping. They both pitch AI and promise clean books and clear dashboards. They both want to be your one-stop shop… but under the hood, they make some very different bets on how the work gets done, who’s in the driver’s seat, and what your … Read more

If you’re reading this, odds are you already know that Puzzle.io is not just “Excel with a bank feed.” It’s a modern, AI-leaning general ledger that does a great job on revenue recognition, variance analysis, and real financials without the month-end circus. But no tool is perfect for every stack. Maybe your firm wants an … Read more