We make expense tracking that doesn't make you hate Sundays.
The idea came from years of doing exactly what ExpenseMonkey now eliminates. Before this, I led strategy at Smallpdf, helping businesses cut friction out of their document workflows. Before that, I worked in strategy consulting and on the innovation team at a large telco — the kind of place where you spend your weekends entering receipts into an "enterprise" expense tool that was designed for someone with five layers of finance approvals, not for a four-person team trying to close their books before Monday.
The pattern was the same everywhere I looked: small teams forced into tools built for large ones. Bloated software, mandatory categories nobody understood, approval flows for purchases the founder had already paid for personally. So in 2024, my co-founders and I built the thing we wished we'd had — fast, mobile-first, AI-assisted, and priced for teams that don't have a procurement department.
Mostly, how to make finance ops invisible — the goal isn't a "better" expense tool, it's an expense tool you barely notice. Around that I write about:
Receipt scanning · Accounts payable workflows · Approval flows · Multi-currency expenses · Per-diem and mileage · Xero & QuickBooks integrations · AI in back-office operations · Month-end close for small teams · Building a finance stack from scratch · Cost control and runway · Tooling choices for early-stage SaaS
A few articles cover tax topics — deductibility, IRS rules, per-diem treatment. Those are informational and based on public guidance and conversations with practicing accountants; they're not a replacement for advice from your own CPA on your own situation. That's the only fine print here.
If you're using ExpenseMonkey and something feels broken — or if you've got a wishlist of what would make it better — I'm the person you want to tell. I also like arguing about whether AI categorization is genuinely solved or whether we're all just rounding error away from chaos.
