Meet Zift,Your personal
Someone to handle your finances — so you can focus on building. Cash, burn, runway, MRR, reconciled and explained, every week.
Today
Good morning, Lukas.
You're in good shape — 14.2 months of runway and burn held flat once the AWS prepayment is set aside. Two thingsneed a quick look: your bank feed paused yesterday, and six transactions are waiting on a category. I've teed both up below.
Mercury bank feed paused 2 days ago
Your connection expired, so balances may be stale since Jun 1. Reconnect to keep cash and runway accurate.
Burn rose 18% in May — but it's a one-off
May burn hit $148K, up $22.4K. Almost all of it is a single $19K AWS prepayment. Normalized burn held at $129K.
6 transactions need a category
Totaling $8.4K, these are uncategorized and excluded from your P&L until sorted. Most look like SaaS tools — I've suggested a category for each.
Plugs into the tools your money already flows through
Everything a CFO does. Handled.
Connect your money, and Zift watches it, explains it, and plans ahead — so the finance work runs itself while you build.
Plug it in
Stripe, your bank, payroll, ads, accounting. The money picture fills itself in as each source connects — start with one, add the rest at your pace.
See all integrationsDatadog charged twice
A second $1,840 charge posted 4 days after the first — looks like a duplicate.
Catch it early
Double-charges, runaway campaigns, surprise bills. Zift catches it, tells you what happened, and recommends the fix — before it's a Friday-night problem.
How alerts workGood morning, Lukas.
Weekly briefing
Cash, burn, MRR, runway — three things to watch this week, a three-minute read. Written like a colleague, delivered to email or Slack.
See a sample briefingAsk anything
Modeling, hiring trade-offs, fundraise math, board prep. Answered in seconds from your real numbers — a deterministic engine, no hallucinated figures.
Try a questionForecast live
Drag a slider — add a hire, raise a price. Zift recomputes runway, burn, and MRR live against your real numbers. No model maintenance, no broken cells.
Explore scenariosBoard updates
Every month, Zift drafts your investor update from real data — numbers, narrative, what changed, what's next. You edit, you send. Ten minutes, not three hours.
See a sample updateThe spreadsheet hours you'd get back.
Most founders we talk to spend a full day a month wrestling numbers into shape. Zift does it overnight. Tell us your shape of the problem.
Founders who'd rather be building than reconciling.
Five kinds of founder, one shared problem: the numbers can't wait, but they shouldn't eat your week. Zift is the finance hire none of them is ready to make.
See it on your own numbers.
Upload a bank statement — get a real, categorized P&L in 30 seconds. No signup, no setup.
Your first briefing by next week.
- Today
Connect one source
Start with Stripe or your bank. OAuth, read-only, two minutes.
- Overnight
Zift closes the books
It reconciles, categorizes, and learns your business overnight.
- This week
Add the rest at your pace
Payroll, ads, accounting — the picture fills in as you connect.
- Next week
Your first briefing lands
First thing next week. Three things to look at. Three minutes to read.
We've done this job at the last four startups we built.
Every time, the founder spent more hours on finances than the work was worth. Every time, the clarity made fundraising easier and decisions less scary — knowing when to hire, when to spend, when to slow down.
Most founders never get that clarity, because there's no one in the room to give it to them. A fractional CFO costs three to eight thousand a month. A real one is a Series-A decision. So the founder reads Founder CFO blog posts at midnight and tries to glue something together in Notion.
Zift is what we wished existed every time. It's the work we kept doing, automated. The colleague we kept being, in software.
If you've ever pasted a CSV into Claude and asked it to be your CFO — we built that, properly.
Stop guessing
about money.
Drop your email and get your first Monday briefing — built from your real numbers, in plain English.