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Economico vs Puzzle
A startup wants AI-assisted accounting without operating its own agent.
What Puzzle handles
Puzzle offers an AI-native accounting core with its own agents, integrations and review inside the product. Its site also describes startup cash, burn and runway views. Both address the need for answers about the business. With Economico, your own agents record the facts and you can inspect the source behind each report.
Which starting point fits?
| Fit | Puzzle | Economico |
|---|---|---|
| Target user | Founder or accountant working inside Puzzle | Builder founder working through their own agent |
| Target company | Startup or small business, including accountant-managed clients | Pre-seed or seed software startup, including SaaS and AI products |
| Main job | Automate bookkeeping and close in a dedicated accounting product | Explain revenue, costs, cash and obligations from recorded facts |
| Choose when | Choose Puzzle if you want its integrated accounting automation and its agents to do the work. | Choose Economico when you need your own agents to answer what changed in revenue and cash and to show the source activity behind it. |
If Puzzle already holds your books, reconcile open customer balances and source documents before comparing periods in Economico.
Turnkey accounting automation or your existing agent?
Puzzle’s AI-native accounting product advertises real-time books and native Stripe, Brex and Gusto integrations, with tax-ready reporting. Those connections and its built-in accounting agent reduce setup work for a founder who wants the accounting product to gather routine data. Puzzle also speaks to startup cash, burn and runway, so it should be compared as a direct finance alternative.
Economico’s differentiator is the operator: the builder’s own agent can record the underlying deal and delivery and trace a report back to that evidence. This gives the agent a finance record that can sit beside product context, but it does not automatically import bank, payroll or payment feeds. The founder must supply and review source facts.
Test the same customer contract in both approaches. Ask what was earned this month, what remains due and which source produced the answer. Then weigh the value of Puzzle’s integrations against the control of using your own agent.
The source behind a SaaS revenue number
Give your agent your AI app’s customer agreement and actual usage delivery. Inspect the statement, receivable and revenue entry it posts in Economico. You supply and review the source facts.
A signed agreement alone is not earned revenue. Supply actual delivery and review the accounting result; Economico does not discover that activity from integrations.
Trace one customer number to its source
Use a real SaaS contract and delivered usage. Ask your agent why period revenue differs from billed cash.
Want agents built into accounting software? See how Puzzle works.