Pilot

Name: Pilot
Rating: 5.0 (6 reviews)

Pilot does your books. You do your business.

5.0•6 reviews•

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Accounting software

Focus on your business, knowing that our expert bookkeepers, aided by software superpowers, are taking care of your books.

Pilot: Pilot does your books. You do your business. | Product Hunt

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Productivity•Fintech•Artificial Intelligence

Launch Team

Waseem Daher

Pilot

Maker

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Hello again PH! Have you ever wondered if your accountant is actually doing a good job with your books? It’s kinda impossible to know… until now! LLM context windows are now large enough that you can actually just put your entire balance sheet and P&L into the LLM and ask it to point out things that might be errors or that should potentially be optimized. And with the right prompting and fine-tuning, it actually does... a surprisingly good job. We’ve been building and using tech like this internally at Pilot for quite some time now, but this is the very first time we're making something like this freely available to everyone, regardless of whether or not you’re a Pilot customer. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Please let me know what you think—I'll be around all day reading/responding to your comments.

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1yr ago

Alex Marantelos

@waseem_daher congrats for the launch! That's a question I wonder about every day! I'll definitely give it a try! Thanks!

1yr ago

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1yr ago

@waseem_daher Hey Wasim, Congrats on the launch. I was wondering if Pilot of online integration with quickbooks or a dump check. If its online, do you also help pass corrections entires if need be. How do you reconcile taxation-specific entires that are country specific?

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1yr ago

Marcos Ortiz

@waseem_daher congrats on the launch. This is needed not only for startups but also for established small businesses. Well done

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1yr ago

Rajiv Ayyangar

Product Hunt

Wild that you can just put an entire P&L in! In general I feel people are good at seeing patterns but bad at catching errors - this feels like it would really help! Is this incorporated in your core Pilot product? I’d imagine an omnipresent health check could be very helpful.

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1yr ago

Waseem Daher

Pilot

Maker

@rajiv_ayyangar Yes, we run 50+ software-driven checks just like these every single month before we deliver books to our customers, and it definitely helps us catch a lot. And yes it’s pretty amazing that you can basically toss the whole P&L in, versus needing to be more clever there.

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1yr ago

Oliver Bahne

This is potentially huge for SMBs. Quite a while ago (read 2018) I read through a report from McKinsey, where they estimated that 90+% of the work done by accountants could be automated in the near future. Would be interesting to see where that estimate is at with the current technology and the evolution of AI.

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1yr ago

Waseem Daher

Pilot

Maker

@oliver_bahne I definitely think that accounting is very ripe for “Computers do the vast majority of the work”, which is admittedly a big part of why we started Pilot. I think like self-driving cars, though, the last 1% is disproportionately really really hard. And for us, even if the computer could do the vast majority of it, what our paying customers are ultimately buying is the peace of mind of having the expert team on it, IN ADDITION to the software.

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1yr ago

Oliver Bahne

@waseem_daher agreed. The sense of security is priceless, and really, really easy to break, if you get it wrong. Keep up the good work!

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1yr ago

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Founder Salary Confessions: How Much Should You Pay Yourself? AMA with 3x Founder Waseem Daher

Hey Product Hunt! I'm Waseem Daher, co-founder of Pilot, the largest startup-focused accounting company in the US. I'm a 3x founder (my previous ventures were acquired by Oracle and Dropbox) who's raised over $120M from Sequoia, Stripe, Jeff Bezos, and more.

Today we're releasing our 2025 Founder Salary Report with data from 1,800+ founders, and the findings might surprise you:

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Based on 6 reviews

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Pilot is highly praised for its expert bookkeeping services, with users appreciating its accuracy, timely delivery, and contextual insights. The fractional CFO services are particularly valued, as they offer seamless integration with existing company knowledge, saving time and enhancing efficiency. CEOs of international businesses find Pilot to be a valuable ally, and the product is consistently recommended for its reliability and the expertise of its team. Overall, Pilot is seen as a dependable solution for managing business finances effectively.