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Bookkeeping
A monthly close you can depend on.
Flare closes your books in your existing QuickBooks or Xero account with a dedicated account manager who knows your business. You get a P&L, balance sheet and cash flow every month, plus the variance analysis and KPI pack your investors will ask for.
Onboarding
Historic review so we start from a clean ledger — from scratch or picking up from your current accountant.
Monthly close
P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reporting prepared by your dedicated account manager on your schedule.
Investor pack
Variance analysis, KPIs and a close call so the board sees the same numbers you do.
Advanced Bookkeeping
Outgrown your accountant?
Meet Advanced Bookkeeping
A fully managed monthly finance function for growing companies that require a higher touch experience. Your dedicated Flare team runs your books end-to-end — from weekly reconciliation to month-end close and investor-ready reporting — so you always have numbers you can trust.
What's included
- Everything in Core Bookkeeping
- Dedicated Slack channel with your Flare finance team
- Accrual basis accounting
- Weekly AP, AR and bank reconciliation
- Expedited closing
Or create a custom scope tailored to your business.
Who's this for?
- Series A / B / C VC-funded startups
- PE-backed or bootstrapped companies
- High-growth businesses
Expertise
Why Flare
Hire an outsourced finance team that deeply understands startups and technology.
Startup experts with Big 4 experience.
Founded by YC founders and a former KPMG Director, built around how high-growth companies actually run finance.
A dedicated team in your time zone.
A named US account manager that responds on your preferred channel and can jump on calls to dive deeper each month.
Replies in your shared channel
Calls in your working hours
AI native & Secure.
Flare's engineering team develops internal software to drive secure, faster and higher quality closes.
close.tsOne team across every entity.
Keep the context with one provider and let Flare handle your consolidated books with multi-entity bookkeeping and our network of local compliance partners.
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Growth
Accounting for every stage of growth
Flare scales with you from your first set of books to an established finance team.
For pre-seed to Series A teams that need accurate numbers without the complexity. We can setup your general ledger with an appropriate chart of accounts and close the books every month ready for your annual tax filings.
Suggested Scope
- Monthly bookkeeping
- Monthly Variance analysis and Investor KPI pack
- State & federal returns filed by our in-house tax team
- R&D Tax Claim
- Series A fundraising support
For Series A, B, PE backed or later stage companies that have outgrown their accountant. You get the advanced bookkeeping and AP/AR a finance hire would run, without the headcount, plus the detailed reporting your investors ask for.
Suggested Scope
- Advanced Bookkeeping (accrual basis)
- Accounts Payables/receivables handled on your cadence
- Custom Investor Reporting
- Dedicated account manager in your time zone available on Slack
- Fundraising, diligence and data room support
For established finance teams that want more capacity without the hiring headache. US Controllers give you dedicated hours from US-based controllers, for a more integrated role in your existing finance function. Alternatively, Flare Resourcing embeds experienced offshore talent — from associates to managers — so you can also add capacity without the cost of local hiring.
- Dedicated hours from US-based controllers
- Qualified offshore talent from Associate to Manager
- Fully employed by Flare
- Hourly, daily, or monthly — scale up and down as needed
- US GAAP and IFRS expertise that slots into your existing processes
Customers
Proud to support founders
High-growth teams who run their accounting on Flare.
Model ML uses Flare for fundraising support, so finance does not pull the team away from the product.
Cosine leaves their books to Flare so the research team can stay focused on their next training run.
Investors behind our clients
“I'll just say now that these guys are fantastic and you won't be disappointed. From bookkeeping to fundraising support they have saved us countless hours & budget.”
Chaz Englander
Co-Founder @ Model ML (YC W24)
“This team understands startups and the fact that they are always changing — Flare was with us from our seed round through to acquisition, helping us at every stage.”
Jack Wilson
Co-Founder @ Fancy (YC S21)
“We used Pilot.com previously but thankfully we found Flare who have dramatically sped up closing our monthly books, last month this took less than a week.”
Angus Duncan
Co-Founder @ Endorsed AI
AI-Powered
The AI-native accounting firm.
Flare's engineering team develops the client facing dashboard and internal-tools to drive more insights, ever-extensive checks & faster closes.
Flare Client Dashboard
Queries, documents and month-end status in one place, so nothing important lives in an email thread.
Secure AI Agents
Our agents speed up our team's deterministic workflows without delegating judgement to AI which means your information is always kept secure.
Variance Analysis
Catch unexpected expenses with Variance Analysis. Control AI token spend, catch unexpected expenses and monitor missed & new payments for no extra charge.
Investor Ready Financials
KPIs, Supplier variance analysis and financial statements all readily available for you to download from your client dashboard.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How Flare bookkeeping works for US startups and scaleups.
Getting started
We can set you up from scratch or pick up from an existing accountant and start delivering in the first month. Onboarding includes a historic review so we catch gaps before the first close.
If you're a pre-seed company with a small number of expenses, a less regular cadence can work — but you will need accurate books to file state and federal returns. Once you raise, monthly close becomes the baseline for AP/AR, management reporting and investor updates.
We close in QuickBooks and Xero most often, and we are also proficient in newer tools like Puzzle and Rillet. You keep ownership of the ledger throughout.
Yes. Catch-up bookkeeping is handled as part of onboarding, so we bring the ledger current before the first monthly close. Because that work is completed in bulk in one go, we can often discount it versus pricing those months at the standard monthly rate.
Working with Flare
A dedicated account manager who knows your business. Agents handle deterministic work inside our own tools; judgement stays with your accountant. You also get a client dashboard for KPIs, queries and supplier variance analysis so you are not hunting through email threads.
We can work to a specific timeline if you have one, otherwise we will aim to close within 2-3 weeks of month-end assuming you can come back to us promptly on our outstanding queries. Once closed, we can then schedule a call with you to walk you through the financials.
You can add AP/AR, custom investor reporting, fundraising support, multi-entity consolidation or a fuller finance function without switching providers.