Economico for YC & accelerator startups
Investor-ready books before Demo Day
Between Demo Day, your first revenue, and your seed round, you need books that hold up to investor scrutiny — without stopping to hire finance. The agent you already use keeps them.
You've seen ten AI-finance pitches this batch — this is the one your own agent runs
Half your batchmates are demoing an AI bookkeeper. Most are the same shape: a vendor's own agent — or an AI-plus-human team — running your books on their infrastructure, turnkey, with nothing for you to set up. If you'd rather not run your own agent at all, that's a real advantage, and one of them is probably your answer. Economico is the opposite bet. There's no dashboard to log into and no team to hand the "keys to the kingdom" — the agent you already use keeps the books, posting straight to a ledger that's yours, adapting to the business you already have instead of you adapting to a vendor's finance agent. Same money loop everyone's pitching; your own agent running it.
GAAP-shaped double-entry from your first dollar, so diligence is an export
The moment you sign up, Economico opens a real, accrual-basis, double-entry ledger — AR, revenue, expense, and cash accounts, ready to post to. From then on every invoice, bill, and payment writes a proper journal on its own. When the seed round comes, a data room is an export, not a weekend of reconstructing a year from a billing dashboard and a spreadsheet. And because you care about cash while investors and the IRS care about accruals, the books speak both: annual prepays parked as deferred revenue and recognized month by month, a clean trial balance your accountant reads without a second look.
Delaware on paper, operating from your timezone — your agent doesn't care where you are
If you incorporated in Delaware and run the company from abroad, the usual finance help understands neither your structure nor your hours, and takes weeks to onboard into either. Your agent skips all of that. It keeps US-shaped books from wherever you are, invoices in dollars — or stablecoins when a customer or contractor abroad prefers them — and answers "what's our burn?" at your desk, not on someone else's business day.
Books that pass diligence
GAAP-shaped double-entry from day one, so a data room is an export, not a weekend of reconstruction before your raise.
Run a US company from anywhere
Delaware on paper, operating from your timezone — your agent keeps the books without a local finance hire who has to learn your structure first.
Finance by asking
Invoice a customer, record an expense, or close the month in plain language; your agent posts it all to real books.
Know how long you have
Cash position and burn come straight from your books, so "how much runway do we have?" has an answer you can trust.
Your first $100,000 of revenue is free
Economico is open to every founder — but YC founders get a deal. Sign up, then verify your YC status in one step — your agent submits a link from Bookface and the check runs server-side — and your first $100,000 of revenue is free. It's an all-time allowance, not a monthly reset, so the whole earliest stretch is on us. It's the work a CFO does, priced so it's never the reason you stop to hire one before you have to.
A YC startup's first quarter · in journal entries
Books that hold up to diligence, from day one.
Scroll through Brightforge AI's first quarter — the standard deal, first revenue, a red February, a clean close. Every number an investor asks for is already a number.
You incorporate
Two founders, 50/50, $25,000 in. The cap table starts clean — and so do the books.
3 tool calls
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- Economicoissue_shares✓
YC says yes
The standard deal wires $500,000 — $125,000 for 7% on a post-money SAFE plus $375,000 on an uncapped SAFE with an MFN.
2 tool calls
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First revenue, GAAP-shaped
The first customer is billed and pays — recognized when earned, not when wired.
3 tool calls
- Economicocreate_invoice✓
- Economicosend_invoice✓
- Economicorecord_payment✓
Burn becomes a number
The infrastructure receipts book themselves off the inbox. January closes at $1,351 net.
4 tool calls
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- Economicoreceive_bill✓
- Economicoreceive_bill✓
The investor question lands
February runs hot — growth plus a big contractor bill. The answer is ready the moment the question is asked.
2 tool calls
- Economicoget_income_statement✓
- Economicoget_balance_sheet✓
Board-update ready
The quarter closes profitable, and the balance sheet ties — the export is the diligence packet.
2 tool calls
- Economicoget_income_statement✓
- Economicoget_balance_sheet✓
Ask it what an investor or co-founder just asked you
Give me an income statement and recognized revenue for last quarter for the data room.
What did we spend last month, and what's our runway at the current rate?
Invoice Acme $2,000 for the Pro plan and record it on the books.
What you'll use
The money loop, tuned for yc & accelerator startups.
Get started
The finance team you don't have to hire.
Hand your agent the setup guide and it walks through the rest — real books from day one, no dashboard, no finance hire.