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AI agent bookkeeping

What did we earn, spend and owe this month—and can our agents show why?

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The choice is how you get an answer you can explain, and which agent or team does the work.

Puzzle and Economico can both serve startup founders; the difference is whether agents work inside Puzzle’s product or the builder works through their own agent.

Decision	Puzzle, accounting with its own agents	Economico
Who operates	Puzzle’s agents work inside its accounting product.	Ask your own agents what was earned, spent or owed, then inspect the recorded cause.
Bring in facts	Product integrations and automation supply accounting context.	You or your agent supply and review agreements, activity and payment evidence.
Inspect the result	Review the work in Puzzle’s product.	Read the source activity, posted entries and reports through the same ledger.

Can my agents show where the number came from?

The agent uses bounded commands to record a contract and activity; reports read the posted ledger. You supply facts and review classifications.

The agent can be inside accounting software or already on your team

Puzzle offers an AI-native accounting product with its own agent and native integrations. That can reduce setup when the founder wants the accounting system to collect routine facts. Economico gives the builder’s existing agent a business record it can write and inspect, but the founder must provide source material and review judgment calls.

One founder described an early preference as “basic bookkeeping myself, track expenses, and export things to an accountant when needed.” Read the comment. That is a preference for simple, inspectable work, not evidence that every founder wants to operate their books.

Test one real customer or supplier record. Ask whether the agent can show the source, the entry it posted and what it refused to infer. Then decide whether turnkey capture or control of your own agent matters more.

One customer event, with the source attached

After your seed-stage SaaS product signs a customer and delivers service, read the contract state, the resulting statement and period revenue. The report has a recorded cause rather than a spreadsheet estimate.

What a bookkeeping agent cannot guess

There is no standing inbox or bank feed. A new ledger cannot know past cash, burn or liabilities until you record opening facts.

What the agent calls

This is an illustrative sequence after you have supplied and recorded a customer agreement. It is not a customer transcript.

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MCP or CLI Connected

Record the delivered activity under our customer agreement and show the resulting revenue.

Called 3 Economico tools

Economico subjects · get contract ✓ Read contract state and source references

Economico commands · contracts.record ✓ Record delivery and return its activity statement

Economico reports · revenue_summary ✓ Read earned revenue for the period

Here is the activity and the revenue report it changed. Check the source terms before sharing the number.

Make your agent show its work

See how your own agent uses the command catalog. Give it a real customer agreement and delivered activity, then inspect the resulting statement and report.

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