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For Ambitious Founders Building The Next Great Businesses
We power the next generation of ambitious companies. The world needs your ingenuity, and we set you up for lasting success.
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Trusted by 7,000+ modern businesses and bookkeeping firms
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Put Puzzle To Work For You
See why modern companies are upgrading their accounting software to Puzzle
Save hours on manual bookkeeping tasks
Puzzle is the first real-time accounting solution that learns your business automatically with powerful, controllable AI. Over time the system accurately drafts up to 95% of categorizations and half of bookkeeping, freeing you to focus on what matters most.
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Close your books with greater confidence
The first AI system trained on accounting accuracy. Monitors every transaction, every vendor, every GL account. Trained on GAAP and customized for your business. All within your control.
Upgrade your firm.
Modernize your ledger.
Client management, AI training and tools designed to help you thrive in the AI world. No competing services, ever.
Modern accounting for the modern stack.
Reliable, streaming integrations with modern tools like Stripe, Brex, Ramp, Rippling, Gusto and more that proactively pull data, so Puzzle is always up to date.
Get dedicated support and training.
Have questions or need help transitioning from Quickbooks? We are here to help with a dedicated accounting firm success team. Don’t have an accountant yet? We are happy to help you with onboarding and find the right firm for your business and stage.
See what sets Puzzle apart
Real-Time
vs. Monthly
Daily drafts, ready for expert review anytime.
Intelligence
vs. Summary Accounting
Continuously monitored for changes and insights.
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Permissioned AI
vs. Autonomous AI
AI under your control, no surprise changes.
Stripe: Direct API Integration
vs. 3rd Party Tools
No more 3rd party integrations with Quickbooks.
Native Accrual Automation
vs. Manual Spreadsheets
Get both cash and accrual books, simultaneously.
Easy to Start. Easy to Switch.
vs. days or weeks of setup.
Get started in minutes with expert support.
The many ways we save your company time while improving accuracy.
From startups to small businesses to accounting firms, we designed Puzzle to be the fastest time to accurate books and insights.
AI Powered Categorization
Up to 95% accuracy - Puzzle learns automatically, improving over time for faster, smarter financial management.s.
Variance Analysis with Spotlight
Define thresholds to flag unexpected expenses and drill into your financials to uncover spending, revenue and cash insights in seconds.
Built-in Accrual Automation
No more spreadsheets – manage revenue recognition, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, AP, and AR with accrual accounting policies.onds.
Continuous Accuracy Reviews
We continuously monitor and review your financial statements for accuracy, across dozens of common errors and anomalies.
Get the Puzzle magic in just 5 minutes
Get started
- Guided onboarding
- Personalized settings
- Invite your CPA or hire from Puzzle’s network
See instant results
- Review drafted financials
- Optimize categorization engine
- Upload legacy books (if applies)
Ask why you didn't earlier
- Close books 50-75% faster
- Capture exceptions and edge cases
- Access real-time financials
Puzzle Integrations
Saving you time through automation
Discover how our integrations save time and boost accuracy over legacy tools like QuickBooks.
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Don’t just take our word for it.
“When I left as Stripe's CTO to found Dev Agents, I chose Puzzle as my accounting solution. It's the best solution for early stage founders.”
“Puzzle easily saved us $15K getting our books organized and taxes filed for the first time so we could close our seed round.”
“Puzzle is like if Quickbooks, Stripe and OpenAI had a baby.”
“Puzzle generated my financial statements and insights in 14 minutes. My mind was blown.”
“Puzzle is a breath of fresh air. You guys have done a nice job.”
“It’s so much easier to use than Quickbooks.”
“Puzzle is a secret weapon: Monthly finance meetings are a breeze, leaving us excited about our company’s future.”
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“An excellent platform that brings understanding to our finances and accounting.”
“I didn’t realize that accounting could help me build my business.”
“I can easily recommend Puzzle. Unless you like manual work, then go use Quickbooks.”
“Before I started using Puzzle I had to wait for my bookkeeper to close the books. Now I have access anytime.”
“Puzzle took the frustration out of accounting. I went from scattered finances to having clarity and confidence.”
“We quit using QuickBooks for Puzzle. It’s simply a fundamentally better product”
FAQs
Puzzle is built for founders by founders to help you build a better startup. We help you scale by…
- Simultaneously generating cash accounting (what you want) and accrual accounting (what accountants want) in a single solution
- Key financial insights such as cash, burn, runway, ARR/MRR, spending and revenue insights, and cash monitoring
- More time growing your business with confidence, less time preparing your financials
- Intuitive onboarding with on-demand accountants ready anytime
No. Puzzle automates 85-95% of the repetitive tasks performed by your bookkeeper. However, it does not eliminate the necessity of having a professional review your books before submission to the IRS, investors, or other trusted partners. Our guided bookkeeping experience helps you draft solid, actionable financial statements and may lessen the need for an expert early on, but as finances become more complex, professional expertise will still be required.
No. Puzzle automates 85-95% of the repetitive tasks performed by your bookkeeper. However, it does not eliminate the necessity of having a professional review your books before submission to the IRS, investors, or other trusted partners. Our guided bookkeeping experience helps you draft solid, actionable financial statements and may lessen the need for an expert early on, but as finances become more complex, professional expertise will still be required.Puzzle provides accurate real-time data and has a robust network of experienced tax experts.
If you are a Delaware C-Corp, the most important tax deadlines are:
- Jan 31: 1099s
- March 1: Delaware Franchise Tax
- April 15: Federal and State Tax Filings
Get multiple, real-time views of your business. Cash, accrual accounting, metrics like burn, runway, ARR, MRR, spend analysis by new vs recurring and top vendors, revenue analysis by product, customer and accounting views, variance analysis and much, much more.
Feel confident as you go into fundraising by knowing your numbers and understanding the key drivers of your business. We give you real-time access to the financial statements and metrics needed for due diligence, with a network of on-demand experts available anytime.
Other systems provide raw transaction data but do not generate financial statements needed for tax compliance, reporting, and decision-making. Puzzle ingests data from these systems into our general ledger to create those reports needed for taxes, compliance, and fundraising.
Yes, Puzzle provides a few options to match your needs:
- Self-service setup - You can set up your accounting and finances on your own through our software. Puzzle automatically connects to your business systems to pull in data. The setup takes just minutes, after which you can access real-time financial reporting. There is a guided solution to do most of the work yourself to keep costs low until tax time.
- Get help when you need it - Get set up yourself, and if you need to, you can hire a bookkeeper, tax preparer, or finance expert through our network to assist you. We help match you to the right expert based on your budget and needs.
No! Founders still need (and value!) experts like you for advice and assurance. Puzzle automates many rote, tedious tasks so you can focus on high-value work. While the system generates draft financials, it lets you focus on exceptions, errors, and an amazing month end review with your clients focused on insights and analysis to improve their business.
Puzzle built a smart general ledger and real-time data platform in a single solution. Some new capabilities are:
- We automating repetitive tasks such as categorization, reconciliations, auto-detection of potential issues.
- Accrual automation across accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixes assets, prepaids
- Revenue recongnition and ARR/MRR calculations
- Collaboration - tag founders on transactions and get automatically subscribed to their responses
- Smart monthly checklist, helping you focus your time on highest value work
- Financials and reconciliations drafted for you, with an indicator when they are in draft or final state or out of balance.
- Maintained integrations means less time reconnected or copying and pasting data
- Learning Categorization - The more you categorize, the better Puzzle becomes at automatically categorizing future transactions.
Yes, through a read-only login Puzzle will import your clients historical financial statements, and trial balance from QuickBooks so you don't start from scratch. We can also help map accounts to a new chart of accounts if needed. This will allow you to retain your historical financial records in Quickbooks format and have comparative financials in Puzzle while cancelling your Quickbooks account (they retain your financials)
note: Currently while the setup and integration just takes minutes, we do the work for you behind the scenes which takes a few hours. We will share the results with you in a few days, depending on volume of requests. We plan to build a self-serve user experience so you can do this yourself in 2024.
Beyond accounting, Puzzle provides variance analysis, metrics on cash runway and burn rate, breakdowns of expenses by type and vendor, and reporting by customer and product line for SaaS companies. This empowers you to provide more strategic advice.
While every case is different, we see two key outcomes from moving from Quickbooks to Puzzle with your clients:
- You can manage more clients at a higher margin, even if you reduce your fees
- Deliver a better client experience with faster more accurate books, plus key insights.
By having both automation and insights in a single solution, you're able to focus on more advisory work rather than data entry, delivering a better client experience at a lower cost, higher margin, with more satisfying work.
Yes. If you become a Certified Puzzle Advisor and validate that your clients are happy with your service, we will list you on our marketplace. If Puzzle customers need your services, we will connect you via our platform to expand your client base. To request access to our certification program, please contact us at support@puzzle.io.