AI accounting and bookkeeping for climate tech and hardware companies
Climate tech accounting.
Capital spent, clearly tracked.
Battle-tested on 1,000+ companies' books.
Zeni is an accounting firm too. More than 250 of our own accountants, bookkeepers and controllers use this platform every day to close the books for 1,000+ customers, with more than $20 billion in finances processed.¹
Zeni connects your banks, cards and payroll, and our team manages the AI agents and reviews the work. With other AI accounting tools, keeping the agents working is your job.
Equipment on a schedule
Lab, test and production equipment above your capitalization threshold becomes a fixed-asset schedule for your sign-off.
Spend by program
Tag spend to a program, pilot or grant as a project, then see OPEX, revenue and net burn by project.
Long contracts, spread right
Annual software, insurance and service contracts become prepaid schedules, so each month carries its share.
Runway in view
Net burn and runway from closed books, plus a 13-week cash forecast from the AI CFO.
An AI Accountant for the books.
An AI CFO for the answers.
The AI Accountant tracks every dollar of capital. The AI CFO tells you how long it lasts.
Connect your accounts. Get closed books.
Zeni's AI and finance team handle the work in between. You build the product.
Connect your accounts
Banks, cards and payroll. Your Zeni team handles the setup with you.
Spend tracked by program
The AI Accountant codes supplier and equipment spend and tags it to the right project.
Zeni closes the books
Zeni's finance team reviews the AI's work and closes the month.
Runway in view
Ask the AI CFO how long the capital lasts and what each program costs.
What is climate tech accounting?
Climate tech accounting is bookkeeping and financial reporting for companies building energy, climate and hardware products. It usually means capitalizing and depreciating equipment, tracking spend by program, pilot or grant, spreading long supplier contracts over time, and watching burn closely through long development cycles before revenue.
Every entry comes with its reasoning.
Each AI suggestion arrives with its reasoning and confidence. Fixed-asset and prepaid schedules wait for your sign-off, and nothing changes in a closed period, so investors and auditors get a clear trail.
AI CFO · answers from live booksKnow how long the capital lasts.
Zeni's AI CFO answers questions on burn, runway and spend by program from your live books, shows how every number was calculated, and builds a 13-week cash forecast.²
Your month-end close, in one workspace.
Thought process on every AI callCoded, with the reasoning attached.
Every supplier invoice, equipment purchase and contractor bill gets a category, class and vendor, plus the reasoning behind it.
Explore transactions →
Prepaid schedule drafted, waiting on your approvalSchedules waiting for sign-off.
Equipment and annual contracts above your capitalization threshold become fixed-asset and prepaid schedules that post only after approval.
Explore month-end close →
Receipt matched to its charge, on the recordReceipts matched.
Missing receipts are flagged and matched automatically when they're forwarded or uploaded.
Explore receipts →
AI CFO explains the spike: up 167% from SeptemberFlux before you ask.
Month-over-month variances by vendor, category and class, with an AI summary of what changed.
Explore month-end close →
Found 3 statement transactions missing from the booksReconciled to the statement.
Bank and card accounts are reconciled to statements, with missing transactions flagged and entries suggested.
Explore reconciliation →
Every close task has an owner, a due date and time trackedClose tasks with owners.
Assign owners, priorities and due dates to every close task, so you see who owns what while the month is open.
Explore month-end close →Run more of your finance work in one place.
Class and project reporting
Report by project, including OPEX, revenue, net burn, balance sheet and cash flow by program.
Fractional CFO support
Add fractional CFO support for budgets, board decks and fundraising when you need it.
Explore fractional CFO →What hardware founders ask. What the AI CFO answers.
Built for teams turning capital into hardware.
Your team, plus an AI Accountant and AI CFOClimate and hardware founders
Founders of venture-backed companies who need investor-ready numbers through long development cycles.
- Burn and runway any day of the month
- Spend by program, pilot or grant
- Equipment tracked on schedules
Finance leads and controllers
Finance leads managing capital-heavy budgets who want the transactional work done first.
- Fixed-asset and prepaid schedules for sign-off
- Close tasks with owners and due dates
- Flux and reconciliations drafted for review
Build the hardware. Keep the books right.
See the AI Accountant and AI CFO on a hardware company's books.
Climate tech accounting and AI bookkeeping FAQs.
- Zeni internal figures, October 2026.
- AI CFO is in beta and can make mistakes; check anything important against the books.
See how Zeni's AI bookkeeping and accounting software works for other teams like yours.
