Accounting for founders and CEOs.
Know your numbers without doing the books.
Your time goes to customers, hiring and the next round.
Founders lose hours every month to receipts, bill approvals and investor update spreadsheets. With Zeni, Wander Maps' founder spent less than an hour on an R&D tax filing that returned $60,000 in credits, and Campfire raised $1.25M with Zeni's forecast and investor reports.¹
Zeni connects your bank accounts, cards, payroll and billing tools, and our team manages the AI agents and reviews the work. You stop being the company's bookkeeper and start reading the results.
Connect your accounts. Get your evenings back.
Zeni's AI and finance team handle the work in between. You make the decisions.
Connect your accounts
Banks, cards, payroll and billing tools. Your Zeni team handles the setup with you.
Books stay current
The AI Accountant codes and reconciles transactions as they land.
Zeni closes the books
Zeni's finance team reviews the AI's work and closes the month.
You decide
Check the dashboard, approve bills and ask the AI CFO before your next board meeting or hire.
An AI Accountant for the books.
An AI CFO for the answers.
The AI Accountant does the bookkeeping. The AI CFO answers the CEO's questions.
A CEO dashboard that's current
Cash, burn, runway and spend by category in one view, from books that are reconciled every month.
Answers in seconds
Ask the AI CFO how long cash lasts or what changed last month, and get a chart with the math shown.
Approvals in one place
Approve bills and reimbursements in one queue, with the vendor history and coding already attached.
Taxes off your list
Zeni's tax team files federal and state income taxes, and R&D credits and Delaware franchise tax are available add-ons.
What do founders and CEOs need from accounting?
Founders and CEOs need books that close every month, taxes filed on time, and a clear view of cash, burn and runway. Zeni delivers all three with an AI Accountant, an AI CFO and a dedicated finance team, so you don't have to hire an in-house accountant or do the bookkeeping yourself.
Every number comes with its reasoning.
Each AI suggestion shows its reasoning and confidence, Zeni's finance team reviews the close, and nothing changes in a closed period. When an investor asks where a number came from, you can show them.
AI CFO · answers from live booksYour company's numbers, before you have to ask.
The Zeni dashboard puts cash, burn, runway, revenue and spend on one screen. The AI CFO answers follow-up questions from the same live books and shows how every metric was calculated.²
What happens at month-end, without you.
Thought process on every AI callCoded, with the reasoning attached.
Every transaction gets a category, class and vendor, plus an explanation of how the AI decided.
Explore transactions →
Prepaid schedule drafted, waiting on your approvalSchedules handled.
Prepaid, fixed-asset and accrual schedules are built for you, and every entry waits for approval before it posts.
Explore month-end close →
Receipt matched to its charge, on the recordReceipts, chased for you.
Zeni flags charges missing a receipt and gives your team one place to upload or email them.
Explore receipts →
AI CFO explains the spike: up 167% from SeptemberSwings explained.
Flux analysis shows what moved month over month by vendor and category, with an AI summary of why.
Explore month-end close →
Found 3 statement transactions missing from the booksMatched to the bank.
Every account is reconciled to its statement, and anything missing from the books is flagged.
Explore reconciliation →
Every close task has an owner, a due date and time trackedA close you can track.
Each close task has an owner and a due date, so you can see where the month stands.
Explore month-end close →More of the CEO's finance work, in one place.
Bill pay and reimbursements
Pay bills and approve reimbursements with the coding done before you click approve.
Fractional CFO support
Add fractional CFO support for budgets, board decks and fundraising when you need it.
Explore fractional CFO →
Commenting
Ask a teammate for a receipt or memo right on the transaction and keep the answer on the record.
Explore commenting →What CEOs ask. What the AI CFO answers.
Built for the people who run the company.
Your team, plus an AI Accountant and AI CFOVenture-backed founders and CEOs
Founders reporting to a board who need investor-ready numbers without a full finance team.
- Burn and runway any day of the month
- Investor updates from closed books
- Due-diligence-ready records
Owner-operators and entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs running a profitable business who want the books and taxes handled for them.
- Monthly financial statements
- Bills and reimbursements in one place
- Tax-ready books all year
Run the company. Leave the books to us.
See your numbers the way a CEO should: current, explained and ready for the board.
Founder and CEO accounting FAQs.
- Zeni internal figures, October 2026, and customer results from Zeni's published case studies.
- AI CFO is in beta and can make mistakes; check anything important against the books.
