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Runway on the home board, Stripe as rows, and a month closed before the investor update goes out.
Tidewater Metrics sells an analytics product on Stripe and runs a team of nine on payroll and contractors.
Runway, MRR and the Stripe feed, on one screen
Stripe payouts arrive with fees and refunds apart, and runway moves with the month.
Reports and tax in depth →The investor asks for burn and runway on the first of the month. Is the answer a spreadsheet from last quarter, or this morning's rows?
Stripe connects with a key you make there; sales come in daily, with the fees kept separate from them.
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Everything dated on one page: what is overdue, what falls this week, what is coming in, and where the balance lands at month end.
Enterprise invoices and the paper behind them
Annual contracts invoiced on schedule, and a pay link for the deals that pay by card.
Invoices and quotes in depth →Two enterprise customers pay annually by invoice, one is late, and procurement wants a credit note for dropped seats. Who chases whom?
LinkForAmountState
pay/k3f9310 USDPaid by card
pay/a81c4,800 USDSent · 6 days
api/report0.02 USDCPer call
A request by link: the amount, what it is for, and the rails the payer may use to settle it with you.
ArrivesRead asFiled under
Filed by a schema you set in words, with versions and access.
Contractors, cards, budgets and the month
Contractors paid in one batch, cards with a ceiling, a budget per department.
Reports and tax in depth →Board meeting on the tenth, the accountant wants the month by the fifth, and the last export still had rows without an account code.
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Up to 200 payouts per batch: CSV preview, duplicate warning, autosave, and a template for the next one.
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Monthly limits per category, what is left of each, what slipped past.
The assistant
Ask it why MRR moved, one customer at a time.
The composer breaks a fall in revenue into who left, who grew and who shrank, and offers the next press.
The assistant in full →- Reading invoices by customer
- New, gone, grown, shrunk
Two customers left: Corvid Logistics and Harbor Health, 9,800 between them. Nobody grew enough to cover it.
What it takes on
- Why revenue fell
- New, gone, grown and shrunk clients, with the same arithmetic the reports use for why a figure moved.
- Cohorts and concentration
- How many of January's clients still pay, and how much of the revenue comes from the top three.
- The investor update
- KPI, cash flow, top clients, MRR and runway for the month, with the three moves that mattered explained.
Who does what
Five people in one book, and no shared password.
- Founder
- Reads burn and runway on the home board and signs what crosses the threshold.
- Finance lead
- Prepares the contractor batch, chases the annual invoices, and closes the month.
- Account manager
- Sends the order form and the invoice, and hears in the channel when the client asks for time.
- Team member
- Files a receipt from the channel and sees only the cards and claims that are theirs.
- Accountant
- Gets the month as files and a read-only door into the closed period.
Connections
Connected the way a startup is already run.
Revenue comes in daily from Stripe, the bank by feed or by statement, and a USDC treasury sits in the same book.
- Stripe
- Plaid
- Base
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Slack
- Claude
- n8n
Control and trust
What a startup needs to trust the book.
- Roles
- Owner, admin, member, viewer, accountant. A contractor is a contact, not a seat.
- Signing rules
- A threshold, the number of signatures, address book only, a monthly allowance per person.
- Oversight
- An oversight report frozen the day after the month ends, with every exception to the rules.
- Agents
- Your own agent proposes and never signs: a fence per agent, a daily ceiling, a receipt per dollar.
Questions
The questions that come first.
Where does runway come from?
From the book: burn is the average of the last three full months of outgoings, runway is the liquid balance divided by it. Neither is typed in, and both open into the rows behind them.
Do we have to leave QuickBooks or Xero?
No. Orla is the layer before it. The accountant keeps their software and receives the month from Orla as statements for every account, a journal and one archive.
Can an agent close the month or pay anyone?
An agent may put a payment in the queue and never signs it. Closing a month is a person's press with a reason, and a closed month is read-only at every door.
See it on your own books.
Thirty minutes: we connect an account, drop a real bill in, and close a month together.