Tech company accounting.
Books that keep pace.
Your engineers should ship product, not reconcile cloud bills.
Cloud and API bills change every month, contractors invoice on their own schedule, and investors expect GAAP numbers. TeamBridge, a software company, saves 53 hours a month on finance work with Zeni. The same platform closes the books for 1,000+ customers.¹
Zeni sets everything up for your tech company, and our team manages the AI agents and reviews the work. It's outsourced accounting with the software built in: with other AI accounting tools, keeping the agents working is your job. With Zeni, it's ours.
Compute and cloud costs
GPU, cloud and API spend split between cost of revenue and R&D, so gross margin reflects reality.
Burn and runway
Burn, runway, cash flow and KPIs computed from reconciled books, not rebuilt for every board meeting.
GAAP, accrual accounting
Accrual-basis GAAP financial statements, ready for fundraising and due diligence.
Answers on demand
Ask the AI CFO whether you can hire three engineers next quarter, and get an answer from live books.
An AI Accountant for the books.
An AI CFO for the answers.
The AI Accountant keeps your tech company's books current all month. The AI CFO turns them into answers.
Connect your accounts. Get GAAP-ready books.
Zeni's AI and finance team do the bookkeeping in between. You review the numbers and ask the questions.
Connect your accounts: link your bank accounts, cards, payroll and cloud billing. Your Zeni team handles setup with you.
The AI Accountant works the month: it codes cloud, compute and software spend, matches receipts and reconciles accounts.
Your Zeni team closes on an accrual basis: we book accruals, prepaids and revenue recognition entries, deliver GAAP financials, and you ask the AI CFO anything.
Close work drafted by AI
What is accounting for tech companies?
Accounting for tech companies is bookkeeping, accrual accounting and financial reporting shaped around how tech companies grow: heavy R&D and cloud spend, venture funding, and investors who expect GAAP numbers. Zeni's AI Accountant codes and reconciles that spend as it lands, so your engineers never spend Friday nights on the books.
Every number comes with its reasoning.
Each AI suggestion arrives with its reasoning and confidence, so you and your Zeni team can see why a cloud bill or API charge landed where it did. Approval rules enforce separation of duties, and nothing changes in a closed period.
AI CFO · answers from live booksKnow your burn rate before you make the hire.
Zeni's AI CFO answers questions on burn, runway, gross margin and vendor spend from your live books, shows how every metric was calculated, and builds a 13-week cash flow forecast,² so growth plans start from real numbers.
Your month-end close, in one workspace.
Thought process on every AI callCoded, with the reasoning attached.
Every cloud bill, API invoice and contractor payment gets a category, class and vendor, plus an explanation of how the AI decided.
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Prepaid schedule drafted, waiting on your approvalSchedules that post themselves.
Prepaid software, capitalized hardware and accrual schedules are built and maintained automatically, and every entry waits for approval before it posts.
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Receipt matched to its charge, on the recordNever chase a receipt again.
Zeni flags every software subscription or card charge missing a receipt, gives your team one place to upload or email them, and matches each receipt to its charge.
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AI CFO explains the spike: up 167% from SeptemberCatch the swing before your board does.
Month-over-month variances by vendor and department, with a drill-down into compute trends and an AI CFO summary of what changed.
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Found 3 statement transactions missing from the booksMatched to the bank, to the penny.
Zeni compares each statement to the cleared balance, finds transactions missing from the books, and suggests the entries to create.
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Every close task has an owner, a due date and time trackedSee who owns every close task.
Every close task has an owner, a priority and a due date, so your finance lead can see where the month stands while it is still open.
Explore month-end close →Run more of your finance work in one place.
Invoicing
Invoice customers for software, services or usage, track payments, and automate reminders on past-due invoices.
Task management
Give every close task an owner, a priority and a due date, so your finance lead sees who owns what.
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Commenting
Ask an engineer for a receipt or the purpose of a cloud charge right on the transaction, @mention them, and keep the answer on the record.
Explore commenting →What tech founders ask. What the AI CFO answers.
Built for the people building the product.
Your team, plus an AI Accountant and AI CFOTechnical founders
Founders of AI, data and SaaS startups who'd rather ship product than reconcile accounts.
- See burn and runway any day of the month
- Understand gross margin as compute costs grow
- Send investor updates from clean numbers
Finance leads and controllers
Finance teams at venture-backed tech companies that need a fast close and GAAP reporting.
- Accrual-basis books from day one
- KPIs and SaaS metrics on every close
- Board metrics and investor reporting
Ship the product. We'll close the books.
See the AI Accountant and AI CFO on a tech company's books.
Accounting for tech companies 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.
