Books built for AI-native startups.
You have usage-based revenue, a compute bill that moves every week, and a runway question you cannot answer from a month-old close. Median does your books for you, categorizing and posting new activity every business day, then turns them into live runway and burn, compute cost tracking, R&D credits, and tax filing.
Founder snapshot
illustrativeGeneric bookkeeping was not built for how you scale.
Compute is your second payroll.
GPU, inference, and cloud spend can move faster than headcount. A monthly close leaves you guessing what it costs to serve a user until weeks after the bill lands.
Usage revenue is hard to recognize.
Metered billing, credits, and overages do not map cleanly to a flat subscription. Recognizing it correctly takes work most bookkeepers skip.
Runway calls need today, not last month.
When spend swings week to week, a runway number from a stale close is the wrong number. You need books that are current when you make the call.
Compute spend
trailing 6 moTrack compute spend and recognize usage revenue correctly.
Median pulls your cloud and inference spend in alongside revenue and payroll, so your books show what compute actually costs and what each user costs to serve. Usage-based revenue is recognized correctly, not lumped into a flat line.
- GPU, inference, and cloud spend tracked as its own line
- Cost to serve and gross margin from live numbers
- Metered revenue, credits, and overages recognized correctly
The whole back office, tuned for AI companies.
Daily bookkeeping
Banks, Stripe, cloud, and spend connect once. After that we categorize and post new activity every business day, with a real accountant on the books.
Reporting that fits
Runway and burn to the month, compute cost tracking, and usage-based revenue, built from your posted ledger and ready for your board.
Tax filing
Federal and state filing handled, from books that are already accurate. The annual plan includes your corporate return.
R&D tax credits
We track and prep your R&D credit through the year so the engineering you are already doing turns into cash back.
You pay for the work, not a headcount.
Pricing is usage-based: you pay for the active financial accounts on your books and the entries we post. Every seat and report is included. Most early-stage companies land between $225 and $405 / mo. Tax filing add-on from $1,499/yr, R&D credits at 10% of the credit you receive.
Typical early-stage bill
- · 3 financial accounts
- · ~100 posted ledger entries / mo
- · Daily bookkeeping, runway, and compute tracking included
- · Bank, Stripe, cloud, and payroll connected
- · AI-prepared books, reviewed before posting
Books that keep up with you, starting this week.
Setup takes about 30 minutes and we bring your history over. After that, your runway, burn, and compute move as new activity posts.