About KeyShot
KeyShot is the world's leading 3D rendering and visualisation platform. When a product designer at Apple, Trek Bikes, Lamborghini, or Nike needs to turn a CAD model into a photorealistic image, they use KeyShot. They support over 230,000 creators across 184 countries.
KeyShot's job is to revolutionise how products are brought to market. Jeppe's job is to make sure the finance function can keep up.
"You could go really small on the local tools, or go enterprise and inherit a decade of SAP or NetSuite implementation pain. There was nothing credible in between, until we found Light."
Jeppe Bygholm · Head of Finance, KeyShot
The problem: e-conomic, Dinero, Excel. Repeat.
Before Light, KeyShot's finance stack looked like most Danish SaaS companies at their scale: E-conomic for one entity, Dinero for another, Excel to hold it all together, and a collection of point solutions around the edges. It ran. But it didn't scale, and it kept finance at the centre of every question the organisation had.
Jeppe wanted finance to be a background service. The old stack kept putting it front and centre.
Finding Light. The right size. The right architecture.
Jeppe wasn't looking for a vendor relationship. He was looking for a system that could run a modern SaaS finance function cleanly, integrate well with the tools already in the stack, and not collapse under its own complexity when the company grew.
He rejected NetSuite on first principles. Old-school database architecture moved to a cloud wrapper. AI doesn't work well on top of that kind of data structure, and EU compliance required so many workarounds that the implementation cost wasn't worth it. Too big. Too slow. Too rigid.
Light sat in the right place. A growing SaaS company needs a clean financial engine that integrates with both. KeyShot signed on as one of Light's first wall-to-wall customers, running AR, AP, and GL across entities, and entered what Jeppe describes as a co-development relationship with the Light team.
"I'd much rather have an iterative implementation and a fantastic tool with a dedicated team behind it than a slick implementation process with a not-so-good product and no commitment from the team."
Jeppe Bygholm · Head of Finance, KeyShot
Expense management and AP automation
One tap. Receipt matched. Done.
Jeppe travels frequently. Now, he uses his Light credit card from his phone. The moment a transaction goes through, Light pings him in Teams with a receipt request. He either forwards the email invoice or takes a photo. 99% of the time, the AI matches the amount, the vendor, and the account and posts it automatically.
When a transaction looks like a group dinner, Light prompts him to confirm whether it was internal or external and who attended. Outside those edge cases, he doesn't touch it. The same logic applies across the organisation. Employees handle invoice approvals, expense claims, and credit card reconciliation through the Light app or Teams, without involving finance directly.
Jeppe Bygholm · Head of Finance, KeyShot
Multi-entity consolidation and bank reconciliation
One system. Three entities. Clean books.
KeyShot runs two Danish entities and a US entity. Danske Bank handles Denmark; JP Morgan Chase handles the US. Both are integrated with Light, and all bank reconciliation and payments run through the platform. Two of the three entities are fully live; the third is in progress.
Before Light, consolidating across entities meant exporting from multiple systems and reconciling the output in Excel. Now it all runs inside a single platform. Jeppe's team handles day-to-day finance entirely within Light for the live entities, with no secondary tools involved.
AI command interface and organisation-wide access
The shift Jeppe cares most about isn't internal to finance. It's what happens when the whole organisation gets access to financial intelligence through tools they already use.
Light runs inside Teams and Slack. Any employee can ask the Light agent directly: whether a supplier has been paid, what the outstanding AR balance is for a customer they're meeting, what the travel policy says about hotel spend. Those questions used to end up in finance's inbox. Now they don't.
For the finance team, the AI interface changes day-to-day too. Setting up posting rules, training the system on account coding logic, configuring auto-reconciliation. All of it happens through a plain-text command in Light. Jeppe's accountants, who have no AI background, are building automation directly inside the platform.
Jeppe Bygholm · Head of Finance, KeyShot
The future of finance is… in the background
Jeppe's philosophy is straightforward: done right, finance operates in the background. The value of Light isn't measured in how much faster month-end runs. It's in what gets removed from the finance team's plate so they can focus on actual business partnering.
His longer-term view: platforms like Light will put serious pressure on legacy ERPs in the mid-market within five years. The old systems are cloud by name only, and the architecture underneath doesn't support AI properly. For asset-light SaaS companies, the argument for going enterprise ERP gets weaker every year.
With Salesforce, Chargebee, HiBob, and Light handling the full financial layer, Jeppe believes KeyShot can reach $100M ARR without significant changes to tooling or headcount.
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