Finance work in small and mid-sized companies is still mostly chasing.
Chasing invoices through inboxes, and approvals from whoever is travelling this week. Chasing receipts for the card statement, customers for overdue payments and the tax advisor for the export. The work that actually matters, knowing where the money goes and deciding what to do about it, gets whatever time is left.
We've seen this up close, and we don't think it's a people problem. It's a tooling problem. Most finance software was built to record what already happened, not to do the work in between.
So we're building something different: an intelligent finance system that doesn't just keep the records, but does a large part of the work itself. It reads and codes every document, gets invoices approved and paid, reconciles the bank, follows up on open items and hands everything over to BMD, DATEV or RZL. Around the clock, and wherever a decision is needed, your team makes it.
No more invoices lost in someone's inbox. No more month-end hunt for missing receipts. No more spreadsheets to see what's still open.
We're not here to replace finance teams or their accountants. We're here to give them back their time and a clear view of their numbers, so they can focus on the decisions only people can make.
We're just getting started, and we're building ibana together with the companies and accounting firms who use it every day. If that sounds like the finance team you want to be, we'd love to hear from you.
Markus Leimer
Co-Founder