Puzzle

Puzzle is modern accounting software designed specifically for venture-backed and bootstrapped startups that have outgrown spreadsheets but find legacy accounting tools slow and disconnected from how a fast-moving company actually operates. Rather than waiting until month-end close, Puzzle automatically syncs bank feeds, payment processors, and payroll data to keep a startup's books updated continuously, giving founders and finance teams a real-time view of cash position, burn rate, and runway without manual reconciliation. It handles both cash and GAAP accrual accounting side by side, which matters for startups that need clean accrual-basis financials for investors and auditors while still wanting a simple cash view for day-to-day decision-making. Puzzle's categorization engine uses machine learning to automatically classify transactions and flag anomalies, cutting down the manual bookkeeping work that typically falls on a founder or a part-time bookkeeper in a company's early years. Dashboards surface key SaaS and startup metrics like MRR, gross margin, and expense trends directly from the ledger, so financial data doesn't have to be re-exported into a separate BI tool just to be understood. Puzzle is built to plug in a fractional bookkeeper or accountant when a startup is ready, without requiring a full migration off the platform as the company scales toward its first audit.