Matthieu is the Co-Founder of ExpenseMonkey.io and a seasoned entrepreneur with a strong background in expense tracking, operational efficiency, and financial strategy. With a degree in business, experience in strategy consulting, and as a CFA charterholder, Matthieu brings a wealth of knowledge to simplifying financial processes for small businesses, startups, and freelancers.
Driven by his passion for creating intuitive, user-friendly solutions, Matthieu co-founded ExpenseMonkey to help business owners save time, streamline workflows, and gain better control of their finances. His expertise combines technical precision with practical insights, making him a trusted voice in expense management and financial optimization.
Discover Matthieu’s approach to smarter expense management by connecting with ExpenseMonkey on LinkedIn or visiting ExpenseMonkey.io.
Mostly, how the product itself can do more of the work — so the team using it does less. The goal isn't a "smarter" expense tool, it's one where a receipt makes it from your phone to your accountant's books without a human in the middle. Around that I write about:
Expense capture and workflows Receipt scanning · Email-to-expense · Approval flows · Reimbursements · Per-diem and mileage tracking · Multi-currency expenses · Project and client tagging
Accounting and finance ops Accounts payable for small teams · Month-end close · Bookkeeping for SaaS · Chart of accounts mapping · Bank reconciliation · 1099 contractor expense tracking · Cost center reporting
Integrations and tooling Xero integration · QuickBooks Online integration · FreshBooks · Expense tool migrations · Spreadsheet-to-software switches · Building a finance stack from scratch
AI in back-office operations Receipt OCR · AI expense categorization · Where AI actually helps in finance · Where AI still creates more work than it saves · Evaluating AI expense tools
Operations for early-stage SaaSCost control and runway · Burn rate tracking · When to hire your first finance person · Pre-finance-hire bookkeeping · Tooling choices for small teams
Where Jaro writes more from the finance ops side, I tend to think about it from the product and engineering side — how a receipt becomes a clean data row, where AI helps versus where it just creates a different mess to clean up, and what "good enough" looks like when you're shipping to small teams who don't have time to read changelogs.
A few articles cover tax topics — business expense deductibility, per-diem rates, mileage allowances, IRS Publication 463 on travel and entertainment expenses, audit-ready recordkeeping, and Schedule C basics. Those are informational and based on public IRS 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.
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