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AI bookkeeping for Stripe Atlas companies

You incorporated a US company through Stripe Atlas while running it from somewhere else — and now you need US-shaped books before you have anyone to keep them. A trustworthy bookkeeper who understands a foreign-founded Delaware C-corp is hard to find and expensive. Economico gives you GAAP-shaped, double-entry books from day one, kept by the AI agent you already use. Here is how it fits an Atlas company, and where a service or an accountant is still the better call.

The Atlas founder's books problem

An Atlas company has real US filing and investor expectations from the start, but its founders are often abroad, without a local finance hire and without books to migrate. The usual options are a bookkeeper who may not understand the cross-border setup, a managed service, or a spreadsheet you'll pay to clean up later. Economico is the fourth option: your own agent keeps accrual, double-entry books from the first invoice, so year-end is an export, not a reconstruction.

What you get, from day one

GAAP-shaped books at signup — AR, revenue, expense, and cash accounts seeded automatically on a real double-entry ledger.
Run by the agent you already use — invoices, payments, bills, and reports are tools your agent calls over MCP or CLI; no dashboard to learn from a different timezone.
Stablecoin-ready — if clients or contractors abroad pay you in USDC, USDT, or PYUSD, settlement and its journal are native.
Investor-ready reporting — balance sheet, income statement, and SaaS metrics you can share as a link when a US investor asks.

How it works

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MCP Connected

Invoice Acme (US) their $8,000 onboarding fee, and record the $49 Mercury fee from yesterday.

Called 2 Economico tools

Economico send_invoice ✓ INV-1042 → Acme, $8,000, sent

Economico record_receipt ✓ Dr Bank Fees $49 / Cr Cash $49

Sent Acme’s $8,000 invoice (AR posted) and booked the $49 Mercury fee. Your US books are current — want the month-to-date income statement?

When another option is better

If you want a person to own US tax filing and cross-border questions, a startup-specialized service (Pilot, Fondo, Zeni) or an accountant is the safer call — Economico keeps the books but doesn't file US taxes. Several of those services also run their own finance agents (or AI-plus-human teams) on their own infrastructure, so the books are kept for you with nothing to set up — genuinely the better fit if you'd rather not run an agent at all. Economico is the opposite choice: it's for the founder who wants their own agent keeping the books from abroad. If you already have QuickBooks or Xero in place, that's a migration, and Economico is built for starting clean. And Economico is open to Y Combinator founders today; broader availability comes later.

Frequently asked questions

Can an AI agent keep US GAAP books for my Atlas company?

Yes — a real double-entry ledger with chart of accounts, journals, accrual accounting, audit trail, balance sheet, and income statement, all as tools your agent calls.

Does Economico file my US taxes?

No. Economico keeps accountant-grade books your accountant (or a service like Fondo) files from. Tax filing and cross-border advisory are where a service or CPA is the better fit.

I run the company from abroad — does that matter?

No. There's no dashboard to operate; your agent runs the books over MCP from anywhere. That's the point for founders without a US-based finance hire.

Can I get paid in stablecoins?

Yes — invoice in USD, settle in USDC/USDT/PYUSD, and the journal posts automatically.

How do I connect Economico to my agent?

Point an MCP-capable host at economi.co/mcp or install the @economico/cli. The setup guide is at economi.co/skill.md.