AI finance hire for startups and SMBs
New York, NY
Joined September 2025
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Most business owners can’t actually tell you how their financial statements get put together. They’ll show you the numbers, but the moment someone asks how a particular figure came to be, the room goes quiet. We spent a year trying to understand why that’s so common, and the answer wasn’t what we expected. (1/9)
Month-end should give you clarity, not another week of reopened spreadsheets. Porter keeps reconciliations, exceptions, and close tasks in one place.
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A well-run finance function creates options: invest, hire, step away for a few days, or simply make the next decision with confidence.
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Every hour spent chasing transactions or wondering whether the numbers are current is taken from the business. Porter gives you an entire finance team in one place.
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Your books have questions. Porter texts you. Reply in your own words and it's booked. Next month it already knows. buildwithporter.com
When finance runs well, the team knows what is true, decisions move faster, and owners have more time for customers, people, and the work that grows the company.
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An owner’s time belongs with decisions that require judgment. Porter handles the work behind the numbers and brings you in for approvals, exceptions, and meaningful tradeoffs.
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Finance feels calmer when routine work is handled and important decisions arrive with context. One place to see what is done, what needs attention, and what needs you next.
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A growing business should not have to rebuild its finance system every year. Porter connects planning, approvals, reporting, and day-to-day finance operations in one place.
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Bookkeeping, payroll, taxes, and planning should create one financial picture. Porter brings them together so owners can see what happened, what is coming, and what deserves attention.
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Cash problems rarely begin when the bank balance becomes uncomfortable. A clear 13-week forecast gives you time to collect sooner, adjust spending, or arrange financing deliberately.
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Good finance gives founders room to think. When the books are current, cash is visible, and decisions have real numbers behind them, more attention can go toward building.
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Your books may be hiding overdue invoices, duplicate charges, creeping costs, or customers that look better than their margins.
Porter’s free Financial Health Audit finds the gaps and gives you a plain-English action plan in under 3 minutes.
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Sometimes the easiest way to understand whether your finance function is working is to count the spreadsheets. Not because spreadsheets are inherently bad, but because every extra report often represents information that the core system could not capture, someone who does not trust the existing system, or a workflow that never got properly connected.
When there are five versions of cash, three AR trackers, and a separate “real P&L” that only one person knows how to update, you probably do not have a reporting problem anymore. You have an architecture problem.
This is what we obsess over @buildwithporter. We model how a company operates in its own words, then map that operating layer directly into the financial layer underneath it. Update once, and every report that depends on it updates too.
A finance function is usually built one salary at a time.
Bookkeeping first.
Then receivables and payables.
Payroll. Reporting. Planning.
A controller to keep the pieces aligned.
Growing companies often need that depth long before the org chart can support it.
Porter brings those responsibilities into one accountable team, working inside a modern financial system that keeps the books, the work and the business context connected.
The team runs bookkeeping, AR, AP, payroll and FP&A.
Porter AI surfaces what changed, tracks what requires attention and answers financial questions in plain English.
Every figure can be traced back to its source.
Enterprise-grade finance, sized for the company you are building now.
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Knowing where your business stands should not require waiting for month-end close.
Porter keeps the books current and answers any question about your numbers, 24/7. So the picture is always there when a decision needs it.
If you have ever checked your business bank account on a Monday morning and done quick mental math about payroll, this one is for you.
Here is a number that surprised us: the median US small business is running on 27 days of cash. For restaurants it is 16 days. For contractors, 20.
Meanwhile the advice everyone gives is "keep 3 to 6 months of expenses in the bank."
That advice isn't just unrealistic. It's incomplete. It only covers your normal monthly costs. It doesn't cover:
• Your slow season. If you do $200K in winter and $60K in July, that gap has to be funded.
• Customers paying late. Not on average. Assume your two biggest ones both stretch you 45 extra days in the same month.
• The big one-off hits. Quarterly taxes. Insurance renewal. A truck that needs replacing.
• The stuff nobody sees coming.
Your real number is all of those added up, not the biggest one.
We put together a straightforward framework: five buckets, four questions, and the signs you're holding too little (or too much, which is a real problem too).
No jargon. Written for owners, not accountants.
👉 buildwithporter.com/blog/how…
Median cash buffer for a US small business: 27 days.
Restaurants: 16 days.
So roughly half of the country's small businesses are one bad month from a very hard conversation, and the standard advice they get is a rule of thumb that doesn't account for seasonality, AR, or taxes.
Read more: buildwithporter.com/blog/how…
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"We thought three containers was enough. Until it wasn't."
Every business owner who touches inventory has a version of this story.
The books look fine. The bookkeeper is doing their job. And you still get blindsided every month.
Here's why 👇
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