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Economico vs Tabs

Tabs and Economico overlap on AI and revenue, but aim at different buyers. Tabs is an AI-native revenue platform for modern finance teams — it reads contracts into billing workflows, then automates invoicing, collections, and revenue recognition. Economico is the whole general ledger for a founder who doesn't have a finance team yet: AR and revenue, but also AP, startup credits, scenarios, and reports, run by the agent you already use. Choose Tabs to automate contract-to-cash at scale; choose Economico for the full books before that team exists.

At a glance

	Economico	Tabs
Scope	The whole ledger — AR, AP, credits, scenarios, reports	Contract-to-cash revenue operations (AR side)
Double-entry general ledger	✅	◐
Reads contract language into billing workflows	◐	✅
Collections & AR automation at scale	◐	✅
Revenue recognition	✅	✅
AP, startup credits, planning scenarios	✅	❌
Whose AI runs it	The agent you already use	AI agents inside Tabs
Native stablecoin settlement	✅	❌
Built for	Founder with no finance team, day one	Modern / fast-growing finance teams

Choose Tabs if…

Tabs is the right call when you have a finance team and complex contract-to-cash: it's genuinely strong at turning contract language into billing workflows, then automating invoicing, collections, payment matching, and revenue recognition with real-time visibility. Tabs runs its own AI agents over that revenue slice on its own infrastructure — nothing for you to set up or operate — so if you'd rather a vendor's agent run contract-to-cash than run your own, that's a real advantage. For a fast-growing B2B company where the revenue engine is the operational bottleneck, Tabs attacks an expensive manual problem well. It's an AR/revenue platform, not the full books.

Choose Economico if…

Choose Economico when there's no finance team yet and you want the whole ledger, not just the revenue side — with your own agent running it, the one you already use adapting to the business you already have, not a vendor's agent over a slice. Your own agent runs AR and revenue recognition, but also AP, startup credits, what-if scenarios, and investor reporting — one double-entry backbone, with stablecoin settlement native. Best fit: a new SaaS or consulting founder who wants day-one books and decision support, not a revenue platform for a team they don't have.

Frequently asked questions

Is Tabs a general ledger?

Tabs is an AI-native revenue/AR platform — contract-to-cash, collections, and revenue recognition — that feeds reporting and a GL. Economico is the double-entry ledger itself, covering AP and the rest of the money loop too.

Who is each built for?

Tabs targets modern, fast-growing finance teams. Economico targets the founder with no finance team who wants their own agent to run the books from day one.

Does Economico automate collections like Tabs?

Economico tracks AR and records payments, but it doesn't match Tabs' depth of contract-reading and collections automation. If contract-to-cash at scale is the core need, Tabs is stronger there.

Whose AI is doing the work?

In Tabs, AI agents operate inside Tabs. In Economico, the agent you already use calls the tools directly — no second AI, no vendor standing access to your other systems.

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.