A double-entry accounting system that works for you
Bank sync, AI categorization, Stripe enrichment, and one-screen reconciliation — for people who'd rather build than do books.
14-day free trial, then $4/mo.
Most bookkeeping software was built for accountants and then dumbed down for everyone else. Cooked Books was built for people who think in APIs, not spreadsheets.
Import your bank transactions. Let the AI categorize them. Review what it did. Hit approve. That's it. That's bookkeeping.
Drop in a CSV, connect your bank, or paste a Stripe export. We'll parse it.
Rules match what they can. Claude handles the rest. You approve everything.
P&L, balance sheet, cash flow — all generated from your categorized transactions.
Only in Cooked Books
Reclassify 50 transactions, check the P&L, and decide if it looks right — all without touching your real books.
Open a sandbox from your current books. Recategorize transactions, move things around, experiment freely.
See exactly what your changes would do. Review every modification before it touches your live books.
Happy? Apply it to your books in one click. Not happy? Discard it. Nothing was harmed. Every change is tracked and revertible.
Every mutation to your books creates an immutable commit with before/after diffs. Full audit trail, one-click revert. Accounting shouldn't be scary. Developers: yes, it's basically git for your books.
Real usage
A founder's balance sheet didn't match their bank statement. They asked Claude to figure out why. It found the problem, explained it, and fixed it — all through Cooked Books.
Choose your automation level. Manual for full control, Suggest for AI-assisted review, or Auto-pilot to let rules and AI categorize and reconcile everything automatically. Your books stay current without daily attention.
Connect Mercury, Chase, or any bank. Transactions sync automatically. Rules categorize them. Balances reconcile. No more downloading CSVs — though you still can if you want.
Your bank sees "STRIPE TRANSFER $2,450." Cooked Books shows you 8 ticket sales for your conference, 2 workshop add-ons, and 1 refund. Event names, product details, charge breakdowns.
A visual grid showing every account and period at a glance. Click a cell to see the transactions, categorize them, and close the period. Statement balance vs. book balance, always visible.
Create invoices with line items, send them, and when payment arrives, we match it automatically. One click links the payment, marks the invoice paid, and creates the journal entry.
Real double-entry accounting. Journal entries, debits and credits, balance sheets that balance. Every automated action has an audit trail. Your accountant will be pleasantly confused.
Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client. Your LLM categorizes transactions, matches invoices, and runs reports. Full API access with your own keys.
Set your base currency to USD, GBP, EUR, or 12 others. Every amount in the app — transactions, reports, invoices — uses your currency. Built for businesses everywhere.
Limited beta
Pro turns hours of manual data entry into a 5-minute review. We're onboarding early users now.
Request early accessCLI, API, or MCP — talk to your books however you want.
Or ask Claude: "What did I spend on travel last quarter?" and get a real answer from real data.
You have a side project that accidentally makes money. Now you need to track it. Congrats, I guess.
You're the CEO, CTO, and CFO. At least one of those jobs should be easy.
You invoice people and money shows up eventually. Let's keep track of where it all goes.
Sponsorship revenue, venue costs, speaker travel — we know because we built this for Deep Dish Swift.
Export 4 files. Upload them. Done. We'll import your chart of accounts, contacts, invoices, and journal entries. Your accountant won't notice the difference — except they'll be happier.
Start with a 14-day free trial, then pick the plan that fits. Pro is invite-only while we onboard early users.
Bring your own AI via MCP. The full bookkeeping product stays included.
14 days free, then $4/mo (billed annually). Cancel anytime.
We handle the AI. No API key needed. Just import and go.
You hired help. Good for you. AI included.
Starter includes a 14-day free trial. BYOA means you connect your own LLM via MCP so AI runs on your side. Pro and Team include built-in AI and bank connections.
Real double-entry bookkeeping. Journal entries, chart of accounts, balance sheets, P&L. Your accountant can review the actual ledger.
Yes. They get their own login and can review everything. They'll probably have opinions about your chart of accounts. That's normal.
You review everything before it hits the ledger. Nothing happens without your say-so.
No. But you'll accidentally learn some. Debits go on the left. That's free.
Yes. We have a QuickBooks import parser. It's cathartic.
Encrypted at rest and in transit. Or self-host and keep everything on your own infrastructure.
That's fine. Start free. Import some transactions. See what real bookkeeping software feels like.