Quanta’s cleverest idea is also its least glamorous: before an AI can explain the books, somebody has to make the books worth explaining.

Puzzle turns the month-end close from a clerical scavenger hunt into a queue of work an accountant can inspect. Its new chapter pairs that live ledger with humans who still have to sign their names.

Vanessa Kruze is the founder and CEO of Kruze Consulting, a San Francisco-based accounting and finance firm exclusively serving venture-capital-backed startups. A CPA and Deloitte Tax alum, she launched Kruze in 2012 after working as a startup controller and spotting a gap in the market for specialized, tech-forward financial services for founders. Today, the firm has served 800+ startups that have collectively raised over $15 billion in VC funding, earned seven consecutive Inc 5000 honors, and is known in Silicon Valley as the go-to accounting partner for early- and growth-stage companies.