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George Azih and the art of becoming less necessary
He spent 18 months studying a problem before a line of code was written. After building LeaseQuery into FinQuery, George Azih is testing a familiar belief in a new setting: give people room to run.
Fischer made the lease a software problem
A tenant advisory firm built its own tools to keep corporate property decisions and the underlying data together. Forty years later, Cresa bought both the people and the software.
Trullion and the Number That Wouldn’t Explain Itself
A lease can hide the fact an accountant needs on page 73. Trullion’s bet is that software should find it, calculate the consequence, and keep the evidence close enough for an auditor to argue back.
Accruent Built a $2 Billion Business Out of Everything That Breaks Inside a Building
Most software organizes people or money. Accruent organizes the stubborn physical world - leases, chillers, classrooms, cell towers and the work orders nobody can afford to lose.
The Accountant Who Found 20 Bad Leases - Then Built the Software 8,700 Companies Use to Close the Books
George Azih did not begin with a pitch deck. He began with an audit sample in which 20 of 20 leases were wrong. The fix became LeaseQuery, the niche SaaS company now trying to turn its hard-won accounting credibility into a much broader intelligent subledger.