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What is Light?

Light is an AI-native financial platform built for multinational companies and hypergrowth SaaS businesses. It consolidates accounting, expense management, and financial operations into a unified system that replaces legacy platforms like NetSuite.

Who is Light for?

Light is designed for organizations that need to:

  • Manage finances across multiple entities and currencies
  • Scale accounting operations without hiring more accounting staff
  • Unify fragmented financial tools and spreadsheets into one platform
  • Leverage AI to automate routine financial tasks

Whether you're a rapidly growing SaaS company with operations in multiple countries or a multinational enterprise consolidating financial systems, Light provides the modern infrastructure you need.

Core capabilities

Light covers the full accounting lifecycle:

Accounts Receivable (AR)

  • Invoice management and tracking
  • Payment reconciliation
  • Revenue recognition automation
  • Customer credit allocation

Accounts Payable (AP)

  • Bill processing and approval workflows
  • Payment scheduling and execution
  • Vendor management
  • Credit note handling and allocation

Expense Management

  • Slack-first expense submission with real-time approval
  • Virtual card integration for spend control
  • Receipt categorization with AI-powered data extraction
  • Policy compliance enforcement

General Ledger

  • Multi-entity consolidation
  • Multi-currency accounting
  • Real-time GL posting
  • Custom properties and tagging for financial analysis

Bank Reconciliation

  • Automated bank feed connectivity via Plaid, GoCardless, Stripe, and direct bank connections
  • AI-assisted transaction matching
  • Exception handling and variance investigation
  • Bank import and CSV upload support

Consolidated Reporting

  • Multi-entity financial statements
  • Currency consolidation
  • Real-time dashboards and reporting

How Light differs from legacy systems

Light reimagines accounting for the modern era through AI-native design, real-time operations, and developer-friendly APIs.

AI-Powered Automation Instead of manual data entry and categorization, Light uses machine learning to extract information from receipts, categorize expenses, match transactions, and identify reconciliation issues. Your team focuses on exceptions and strategy, not grunt work.

Real-Time, Multi-Currency Operations Legacy systems struggle with multi-entity and multi-currency workflows. Light is built from the ground up for global operations, with native support for unlimited entities and currencies.

Built for Integration Light connects seamlessly to your existing tools:

  • CRM: Salesforce, HubSpot
  • Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams
  • Payments: Stripe, Adyen, Airwallex
  • Payroll: Finch
  • Tax: Avalara
  • Authentication: Auth0

Developer-First API All of Light's functionality is available via a modern REST API. Build custom workflows, automations, and integrations without limitations.

Slack-First Experience Expense management and approvals happen where your team already works. Submit expenses, approve workflows, and get notifications in Slack—no context switching required.

What you can do today with Light

  • Set up your organization in minutes with multi-entity and multi-currency support
  • Connect your bank accounts for instant transaction visibility
  • Build customized approval workflows for expenses and invoices
  • Run consolidated financial reports across all your entities
  • Use AI to automatically categorize receipts and match bank transactions
  • Manage spending through virtual cards with built-in policy enforcement
  • Sync revenue and expense data to Salesforce, HubSpot, or custom systems

Next steps

Ready to get started? Head to Creating your account to set up Light in minutes.

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