From your first runway model to your first audit.

Before venture money — or instead of it — finance is really one question: how long can we live, and what moves the date? We run your back office end to end and report runway in plain terms, then help you adjust spend so the money you have buys the most progress it can. Founders should be building product, not reconciling a credit card at midnight.

After a Series B, finance stops being bookkeeping. An annual audit is a massive, dedicated undertaking — months of schedules, walkthroughs, and auditor interaction that can consume a team’s entire bandwidth. For companies like Arena AI, we run the whole arrangement: fractional CFO, controller, bookkeeping, fractional HR, and operations — one team, fully integrated.

The proof: we carried a Series B company through its first Big Four audit — the financial statements, the footnotes, the revenue-recognition and stock-compensation schedules, and every auditor request — and came out the other side with audited financials and a close process built to do it again.

Just as important: we maintain your financials to audit standard all year, every year — so each audit is a season you plan for, not a crisis you survive.

Mature, profitable startups like Readwise carry global footprints — worldwide distribution, customers in dozens of jurisdictions, and the sales tax reporting complexity that comes with them. We handle that complexity as routine operations, so it never becomes a reason to hire a finance department you don’t otherwise need.