You raised £400k. The questions that keep you up are: how long does this last, can I hire the second engineer, what does my next investor update look like? Ledgers does the bookkeeping so you can answer them in 10 seconds — not the two days it takes to do a spreadsheet.
Xero was built for VAT-registered, profitable, established SMEs. You're pre-revenue, burning a runway, trying to hire, sending investor updates, doing the EIS paperwork. Your questions are different. Your tools should be too.
A spreadsheet you maintain. Wrong by Tuesday.
A live number on your dashboard. Updates with every transaction.
Three hours of CSV exports + Notion fiddling.
The morning briefing IS the investor update. Forward + send.
Slack your accountant. Wait two days.
Decision Room. Add the hire, see runway drop, decide.
Pray. Or pay £500 to a specialist.
Compliance Calendar tracks the dates. Documents stored against the round.
Three hours, half-stale, embarrassingly informal.
Trust Receipt: one page, cryptographically signed (SHA-256), public share link.
Tomorrow's problem. (Forever.)
Multi-currency on Scale tier. Bank fee + FX gain/loss posted automatically.
Not the bookkeeping ones. The metrics that actually matter between rounds.
Cash on hand, monthly burn, runway in months. The Single True Number lives on every page. Recency timestamp on it — you always know how fresh.
Try it free →A sandbox for "what if I hire two engineers in May?" or "what if Series A slips a quarter?". See burn + runway impact instantly. Save scenarios as named decisions.
Every morning at 06:00 UK: one paragraph summarising your books. ARR, MRR, burn, runway, customers, anomalies. Forward straight to investors.
Auto-seeds confirmation statement + annual accounts deadlines from your incorporation date. PSC changes, share allotments tracked too — useful when you do a SAFE round.
The founder receipt problem solved. Snap a receipt on your phone, AI extracts everything, drafts a bill or expense claim. Two taps to filed.
Monthly public share link, cryptographically signed (SHA-256), proving your books are reconciled and signed off. Useful for VCs, board members, year-end accountants — anyone who asks "how do I know these numbers are right?"
Carta, Pulley, Capdesk handle equity. Ledgers handles the books. We're happy to plug in — when you allot shares, we record the cash + post the share-capital journal. We won't track your option pool dilution across scenarios. That's a different tool.
Most pre-seed startups do 5-15 transactions a month: founder expenses, formation costs, AWS / Vercel / Linear / Notion subscriptions. That's the Free tier.
When you start invoicing, you graduate to Solo (£19) or Starter (£29). When you have 5+ people and run payroll, Growth (£79) is the natural step — with anomaly flagging on VAT and the signed Trust Receipt that makes your investor updates look professional.
You're a founder, not a chartered accountant. Wire your bank, forward your inbox, get back to building.
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