An AI CFO for founders

An AI CFO for founders.

For the founder who's been doing the books in a Notion doc. Cash, burn, MRR, runway — auto-delivered every Monday. Ask anything, in plain English.

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app.zift.dev / overviewMarble Inc
Monday · 8:02 AM · auto-delivered
Good morning, Sara. Three things to look at.
Cash
$0
+$246K wk
Net burn
$0
+3.4% vs plan
MRR
$0
+$12.1K
LinkedIn Ads
CAC at 2.1× target — spend up 38% week over week.
Acquia
Closed +$18.4K MRR — largest deal of Q2.

You're the CFO, and you shouldn't be.

— That's it. That's the whole pitch.
Plugs into the tools your money already flows through
Stripe
Mercury
Brex
Ramp
Gusto
QuickBooks
Plaid
Meta Ads
§ 01 · Connect

Plug it in. The picture fills itself in.

Stripe, your bank, payroll, ads, accounting — whichever you already use. Zift unlocks more of your money picture as each source connects. Start with one. Add the rest at your pace.

One-click integrations. OAuth, no spreadsheets, no Sunday-night reconciliation.

Works with what you have. Stripe, Mercury, Brex, Ramp, QuickBooks, Gusto, and more.

connections
StripeConnected
MercuryConnected
GustoConnected
QuickBooksSyncing…
§ 02 · Watch
anomalies · 2 open
LinkedIn Ads
CAC at 2.1× target — spend up 38% w/w.
Notion
Charged twice — $96 duplicate, 12 min ago.
Acquia
Closed +$18.4K MRR — largest deal of Q2.

Caught before it becomes a Friday-night problem.

Vendor double-charges. A campaign blowing through its budget. A bill posting you weren't expecting. Zift catches it, tells you what happened, and recommends the fix.

Plain-English alerts. No jargon, no dashboard to check.

The recommended action. Pause this, file that, ignore this one.

§ 03 · Brief

A short note, every Monday.

Cash, burn, MRR, runway. Three things to look at this week. Three minutes to read. Reply with a question and Zift answers — same data, same place.

Delivered Mondays 8 AM. Email or Slack, your call.

3-minute read. Written like a colleague, not a chatbot.

app.zift.dev / briefing
Monday · 8:02 AM
Good morning, Sara. Three things.
Cash
$0
Burn
$0
Runway
0mo
§ 04 · Ask
ask zift
What's our gross margin trend, by product line?
Up across the board. SaaS 74% → 81%, Services 38% → 44%. Driver: lower AWS cost per customer.

A real CFO, in your inbox.

Ask anything. Modeling, hiring trade-offs, fundraise math, board prep. Answered in seconds, from your real numbers — not a stale spreadsheet.

Plain English in/out. No formula bar required.

Real numbers from live connections. Pulled from what you connected, not estimates.

§ 05 · Forecast

See the next eighteen months before they happen.

Drag a slider — add a hire, raise a price, cut a campaign. Zift recomputes runway, burn, and MRR live, against your real numbers. Save scenarios. Compare them. Pick the one that actually works.

One slider, one chart. No model maintenance, no broken cells.

Save and compare. Base case, stretch, what-if-it-goes-south.

forecast · +3 ENG
Base
16.6mo
After
14.2mo
Δ
−2.4mo
§ 06 · Close
board deck · 12 slides
01
Cover · Q1 update
ARR $2.92M · Runway 16.6mo
02
P&L · April
Net burn +3.4% · AWS −41%
03
What's next
+3 ENG Jul · Runway 14.2mo

Board updates, without the panic.

Every month, Zift drafts your investor update from real data. Numbers, narrative, what changed, what's next. You edit, you send. Three hours of work, done in ten minutes.

Monthly investor email. Drafted on the 1st, in your voice.

Board deck. KPI grid, narrative, asks — matching your template.

§ The math

How many hours you'd get back.

Hours/week you spend on the books6 hrs
What your hour is worth$120
A fractional CFO would cost$5,000/mo
You'd get back
0 hrs/mo
What that time is worth$2,160/mo
vs a fractional CFO$5,000/mo
Total value / year$86,184
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§ Built for

Founders who'd rather be building than reconciling.

01 · Solo founders

Get the numbers, lose the spreadsheet.

You don't have a finance person. You shouldn't need one yet.

02 · Pre-seed CEOs

One screen, one number, one decision.

Cash, burn, runway. Read in three minutes. Get back to work.

03 · Seed-stage CEOs

Board-ready, without a board ops hire.

Monthly investor update drafted from real numbers.

04 · Bootstrappers

The CFO you'd never hire.

No VC to report to. Just clarity on whether the math works.

05 · Series A founders

A copilot for your part-time finance person.

Stop being the bottleneck between Stripe and the board.

0 min
Min briefing read

Get back to building.

0 min
Min to connect

Stripe + your bank. The picture starts filling itself in.

0
Tools supported

Native integrations on day one.

~0s
Sec response

From your real numbers, every time.

§ In their words

Founders who stopped guessing about money.

I stopped opening the spreadsheet. The Monday briefing is the first thing I read, and it's already right.

Sara Chen
Founder & CEO, Marble

It caught a duplicate vendor charge before I did. That alone paid for the year.

Dmitri Vasquez
Founder, Loophole

Our close went from a week of reconciling to a number I trust by Monday. My team does judgment now, not data entry.

Priya Anand
Head of Finance, Series A
§ Try it free

See it on your own numbers.

Upload a bank statement — get a real, categorized P&L in 30 seconds. No signup, no setup.

Build your P&L →
§ How it starts

Your first briefing by next Monday.

01

Connect your accounts

Stripe, your bank, payroll, ads — OAuth, read-only, 2 minutes.

02

Zift learns your books

It reconciles, categorizes, and learns your vendors — deterministically.

03

Monday briefing lands

Cash, burn, runway, and what moved — in your inbox, every week.

§ Why we're building this

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.

Read-only — we never move your money·Bank-grade encryption·SOC 2 in progress·No card required