Cranston AI
Cranston AI is a YC Fall 2025 (F25) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Cranston AI
Summary
Cranston AI builds accounting software for CPA firms and SMBs that prepares tax returns, reconciles books, and handles compliance work inside the tools firms already use, including Drake, QuickBooks, and CCH Axcess. The product reads client documents, classifies transactions, drafts journal entries, and writes client follow-up emails, replacing the manual preparation work done by accounting staff. Reviewers approve everything before it posts, files, or reaches a client.
Business model
Subscription pricing with plans listed on the website.
Go-to-market
CPA firms are the primary buyer, reached through a sales-assisted demo booking flow on the product website.
From the Y Combinator listing
Full Stack AI Accounting Firm
Cranston is a full stack AI accounting firm automating the $900b market for accounting labor. Our software automates reconciliation, tax compliance and financial analysis for startups & SMBs. We pull in context from all your company's apps & data, connect to existing systems of record and handle repetitive accounting work. Our team is deep in the accounting space. Sean spent 5 years building an ERP after dropping out of Stanford and Max spent 5 years building an accounting firm that did every accounting workflow you can imagine on top of ERPs.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Finance and Accounting
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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