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by ghiculescu 1231 days ago
That's a good blog post, thanks for sharing.

Incidentally, I just came across Journalize. But I'm struggling to understand what it's for. It might be helpful to say - either here, or on your homepage - who or what it is competing with. I'm probably not the exact target audience, but it seems to do more or less what Xero does for us (but I don't want to rule out that I just don't understand the homepage).

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Appreciate the feedback!

If your business generates a lot of transactions, to the point that you have a full time accounting or engineering staff whose job it is to wrangle 200MB excel files or complicated sql queries, then Journalize is for you.

We’re basically BI tailor made to create outputs that are relevant to accountants (we know what “depreciation” is supposed to look like) and let them take a monthly ledger entry and drill down to a specific user’s impact on the GL and tie it to the line of source data.

In this way, we’re doing the data engineering work, helping accounting teams have BI type tools to set up accounting rules, and giving transparency to “why” an aggregate number is correct.