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We Built an AI Bookkeeping App That You Can Talk To. Here's What We Learned(ledgeriq.ai)
1 points by JohnnyRebel 1y ago|0 comments
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by JohnnyRebel 1y ago
Fair, QuickBooks does market their software towards every small business owner not just accountants. But even so, small business owners still spend hours on entry and categorization. It's enough that most community colleges teach Quick
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by JohnnyRebel 1y ago
We sidestep the “silicon psychologist” issue: the LLM simply interprets questions, while all numbers come from structured data. AI explains results, but it can’t rewrite the books.
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by JohnnyRebel 1y ago
Fair point—though to be clear, the LLM isn’t doing the math, just the interface. The numbers come from structured data, so accuracy isn’t left to chance. Where this really helps is for small business owners who are overwhelmed by QuickBooks
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by JohnnyRebel 1y ago
I totally agree; the liability is real, which is why we don’t let the LLM “invent” numbers. We use the model as the interface, but all financial data comes from a structured database. In practice, it works like RAG: the LLM interprets the u
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by JohnnyRebel 1y ago
That’s exactly the question we’re testing. Will this feel like the future of bookkeeping, or just another tool? We’re launching the beta in a week and are eager to see how real users respond. Curious what you think would make this genuinely
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by JohnnyRebel 1y ago
We thought about just building an AI plugin for QuickBooks, but decided to build our own platform instead. Harder path, but bigger upside.
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by JohnnyRebel 1y ago
We’re tackling ingestion primarily through direct bank connections. Users connect their bank and financial accounts, and transactions flow into our system automatically. From there, we store the data in a structured database and normalize i
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How AI Is Changing Bookkeeping(ledgeriq.ai)
7 points by JohnnyRebel 1y ago|17 comments
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by JohnnyRebel 1y ago
The story of a bootstrapped AI-first bookkeeping app that lets small business owners talk to their financial data instead of wrestling with spreadsheets. Beta launching this September. Curious if HN thinks this is the future of accounting o