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Latch.ai
Automate complex accounting work without a single prompt
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Automate complex accounting work without a single prompt
298 followers
Latch is built for accountants buried in click-heavy close work. Instead of writing prompts, you do a task on screen and talk it through, including the parts no SOP captures: the three-day matching window, the rate you always override. Latch asks about the exceptions, then builds a sidekick that runs the task the same way every time, right in the tools you already use. When something doesn't fit, it stops and asks you. Every step is logged for review.
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Hi Product Hunt! I’m Stefan, co-founder and CEO of Latch.
AI has come with a lot of big promises, and yet many of us still spend hours pointing and clicking: pulling reports, moving data between systems, checking one number against another. That kind of work looks easy to automate until you dig in and find the nuance underneath: the exceptions, the edge cases, the judgment calls nobody wrote down.
I’ve built and sold two companies, and in both, some of our most capable people lost hours every week to exactly this kind of work. I started Latch to capture the nuance and free people to focus on the work that really matters.
You show Latch how the work gets done, and it helps you see which parts are truly repeatable and where the gray areas are. The repeatable parts become sidekicks that run the same steps every time and stop to ask you when they hit a gap they can’t fill or a decision they shouldn’t make alone. The goal is to hand the tedium to a machine, so people can spend their time on the judgment calls and new ideas that move things forward.
We started with accounting teams, because few processes have more nuance than the month-end close. The capture tool is where the magic happens. As you work, it records three streams: your narration, your screen, and your clicks and keystrokes. That’s how you get a working sidekick without ever writing a prompt or opening a coding agent.
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One question for you: if you had one recurring task you could hand over that would be done right, how impactful would it be for you?
Congrats on the launch! We're an early-stage startup using Stripe + Xero, but haven't managed to get everything syncing properly. Ideally, we'd love to automate our bookkeeping so every transaction in Stripe Treasury gets recorded and categorized correctly in Xero, without having to manually review everything. Could Latch help us set up and automate a workflow like this?
@gabrieldelsalto Yes we currently have compatibility with Xero and a host of other applications. We are working toward adding Stripe. One of our engineers will respond soon to this thread on how close we are with Stripe compatibility. @stefankalb
@aaron_pennell That's great to hear! Stripe integration would definitely make this interesting for us. Looking forward to hearing from your engineer. Thanks for the quick reply!
@aaron_pennell @gabrieldelsalto Hey Gabriel, good news: Stripe is ready to go! (We’ve been adding plugins fast, so Aaron’s list was a step behind.) For your setup, a sidekick could record and categorize Stripe Treasury transactions in Xero the same way every time, and only flag the ones that don’t fit your rules for you to review. Sounds like a great fit for your stack and stage. We’d love to show you on a quick demo: https://latch.ai/demo?ref=producthunt
Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Jared, co-founder and CTO. Building Latch was a serious technical challenge - it turns out if you take a 3 hour video and hand it to an LLM, it gets completely wrapped around the axle. If it even manages to take it all in, it can't tell the signal from the noise.
Solving that took some real smarts - but we landed on a multi-agent architecture that intelligently reads between the lines of what you're actually doing to build deep context around how you do the work you want Latch to do, and to make it reusable via MCP and our knowledge graph.
At the end of all of that, what you get is actually a deterministic sidekick to help get stuff done. Not another agent that's going to make your judgement calls for you.
Happy to go deep on architecture in the comments! What would you want to know before trusting automation with your books?
Interesting! Will you be looking into use cases outside of accountancy?
@orcastra Hey Melody, just adding to Aaron's response to share a bit more information. We started with accounting because few processes have more nuance than the month-end close, so it's where we've tested Latch hardest and where we've seen a lot of early traction. But the approach works for any repeatable task across the tools on your computer, and we already have plugins for a number of general purpose tools outside accounting (Google Sheets, Slack, GitHub, etc.). What would you want to try it on? Feel free to give it a try!
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Emilie, the designer for Latch.
When we started building out Latch, we kept hearing the same worry: "Is AI going to replace me?" We designed around the opposite idea: that you're the expert. Latch learns from you, takes the tedious parts off your plate, and leaves you with the judgement calls.
That shaped a lot of decisions:
You decide what gets recorded. Latch only learns from sessions you initiate.
No surprises before the first run. Latch lists every step a sidekick will take and explains each permission it asks you. You approve only the apps it needs, and you can do a test run before it touches real data.
When something doesn't match what it learned, a sidekick stops and asks, always explaining the problem in plain language.
Everything is visible and every run leaves a step-by-step log you can track.
Under the hood, Latch is SOC 2 compliant, and data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
What would make you comfortable handing a task to a Latch sidekick?
Does it Work in the Eu? In Norway for instance?
@alchemist_studio Hey André, thanks for asking! Yes, you can sign up and use Latch from Norway and anywhere in the EU. We haven't added plugins for specifically European or Norwegian accounting tools yet, but it takes less than a day to get a new plugin stood up for most tools. For which tools would a plugin be most important for Latch? We'd be happy to investigate and add them to our stack.
@sam_voahbst Yeah. I think every country has its integrations that needs to be supported. And banks and accountant software services etc etc. Solving that connection is tricky I think. I think thats a product in it self if someone nails it.
@alchemist_studio Totally agree. Some tools have open ecosystems and are quick to connect, while others have a much more involved partner approval process. We’ve learned a lot navigating those for the big US accounting tools. The toughest are the old-school tools with no APIs at all.
We’re integrated with Plaid, which covers some European banks. We’d love to get reps on the bigger EU tools next. Which would you start with: Tripletex, Visma, Fiken, something else?
@sam_voahbst Yes these are the big 3 in Norway. You also have to get bank layers and gov api access. And you also have to maintain these things. I think a layer that just took care of that part. Is a huge business oppertunity in it self.
Congratulations on the launch! I'm really excited about this problem! Reconciling books and closing has always been filled with Excel macros and a whole bunch of custom workarounds that don't handle nuance or exceptions very well, so this looks incredibly promising.
@mikelu_ Thanks Michael! Excel macros are such a good example. They’re great until the one exception nobody coded for, and then they break quietly or produce the wrong number, and usually only one person on the team knows how to fix them. With Latch, you do the task and explain the nuance as you go, so the exceptions get captured, and when something doesn’t fit, the sidekick stops and asks instead of pushing through.