Experts without systems
You can hire an experienced firm that lacks great systems. But your numbers live in spreadsheets and one manager's head. Available when they have time. Gone when they leave.
Most firms have the people or the technology. We built both.
Accounting, finance, tax, and people ops from real finance experts, on AI systems we built ourselves.
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Why most back office solutions fall short
You can hire an experienced firm that lacks great systems. But your numbers live in spreadsheets and one manager's head. Available when they have time. Gone when they leave.
You can get a software platform that lacks experienced people. But you get no human judgement. Reports show up on time, but nobody tells you what they mean or catches what's wrong.
airCFO is both: experienced people on AI systems we built ourselves.
What we do
Four service lines, one accountable team, one connected system of record. Start with what you need now and add the rest as you grow.
Books you can trust that close on time
Know your runway and be ready for board meetings
Filed correctly with every credit claimed
Everything handled in every state
How we do it
One team that sees your whole financial picture and proactively spotlights the signals that matter most for your business.
Battle-tested systems and reporting built to support rapid growth and impress your board.
The Back-Office Flightplan methodology that lets you run confidently toward your next milestone.
Purpose-built AI that learns your business, so you get an AI-forward back office that's ready to scale.
Most finance teams are built reactively, hired when things break, patched when audits loom. airCFO's Flightplan framework is your guide for building a back office that evolves as you raise. Click your stage to explore what's waiting for you.
Finance, tax, and people ops working together as things get complex.
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The future of finance is AI-powered.
airCFO runs your back office across four service lines: accounting, finance, tax, and people ops. An experienced team, supercharged by AI systems we built ourselves.
No. Most clients start with accounting and add lines as the company grows, so you pay for what you need now rather than what you might need later.
Pricing is set by the service lines you turn on and your stage, starting at $500 per month for pre-seed accounting, with onboarding as a separate flat fee. See pricing.
You get a named controller and senior accountant who own your account, plus a specialist for every service line you turn on. Any question gets an answer inside one business day.
airCFO supports almost all of the common back-office systems across general ledger, banking, revenue and expense management, payroll and benefits, and cap table management, including QuickBooks Online, Rillet, Campfire, Mercury, Ramp, Brex, Stripe, Gusto, Rippling, Carta, and others. airCFO designs and implements the stack, and it belongs to you and stays with you. If you have specific questions, let us know.
airCFO builds and runs its own AI systems, proven on its own books before running on anyone else's. Our people make the judgment calls; the AI handles the busy work.
We call that graduation, and it’s our goal to get you there. airCFO hands off working systems and the architecture behind them, so your new team inherits a functioning back office instead of a rebuild.
Yes, as long as a local accountant in-country owns that entity's books. airCFO covers your US operations and runs the consolidation.
We can usually begin onboarding within a few days of a signed engagement letter. Onboarding is a flat-fee engagement with a defined scope designed to get your back-office operations set up for ongoing service. More complex implementations, such as an HRIS or PEO migration, may be scoped separately.
Yes. Federal and state filings, R&D credits, multi-state registration, and credentialed sign-off are all inside the tax service line.
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