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Service firm versus software entries

A curated sample for founders asking whether the public company is selling software, managed work, or both.

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Descriptions explicitly use firm, accounting, broker, appraisal, or finance-service language; selection is based on source wording, not staffing inference.

  • Cranston AI names software for CPA firms while Arden names an internal audit firm; Afternoon.co names finance, accounting, and tax support.
  • Automax.ai, Ralo, Acolite, and Finto extend the sample to appraisal, mortgage, insurance brokerage, and AI-native accounting language.
  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Cranston AI

    Cranston automates repetitive tax, bookkeeping and client-follow-up work for CPA firms, with reviewer approval before filing or sending.

    Y Combinator Fall 2025

  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Arden

    Arden targets internal-audit and SOX teams with evidence collection, control testing and audit-ready workpapers.

    Y Combinator Spring 2026

  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Afternoon.co

    Afternoon provides managed bookkeeping, taxes and compliance for AI startups with complex revenue and inference-cost structures.

    Y Combinator Fall 2024

  • Real Estate and Construction / Housing and Real Estate

    Automax.ai

    AI native real-estate appraisal firm

    Y Combinator Fall 2025

  • Fintech · Consumer Finance

    Ralo

    A mortgage comparison and brokerage workflow for borrowers who want to see rate, APR, fee and lender tradeoffs together.

    Y Combinator Spring 2025

  • Fintech / Insurance

    Acolite

    AI Native Commercial Insurance Broker

    Y Combinator Spring 2025

  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Finto

    Finto adds AI agents to high-volume invoice processing and connects exceptions and approvals back to enterprise ERP systems.

    Y Combinator Summer 2025

How this collection was assembled

Curated researched sample from the 2026-09-19 company inventory; not the full accelerator roster. Membership follows the stated source fields and public descriptions. Where SPC appears, company-directory association is not a Fellowship cohort; where LAUNCH appears, categories are editorial unless the provider exposes them.