In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling more than 2,000 returns a year.
Using Plaid to import live account data, Tabby uses AI to quickly build a real-time dashboard for a business’s financial health.
Fourteen months in, Tabby has 5,500 small businesses using the platform, with about $100,000 in annual recurring revenue.
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In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling more than 2,000 returns a year. “We did bookkeeping, accounting, sales tax, taxes, everything,” Ali says.
His work was dictated by the frictions of accounting software, which was designed with actual accountants in mind.
Ali is building just that. His product, Tabby, is designed to be a real-time bookkeeping interface, handling clients’ paperwork as it gives them up-to-the-minute data on their business’s profit and loss. Using Plaid to import live account data, Tabby uses AI to quickly build a real-time dashboard for a business’s financial health.
As Ali sees it, products like Tabby have a chance to automate away the work of bookkeeping once and for all, turning it into a monthly charge on the order of internet access or payroll services.
Fourteen months in, Tabby has 5,500 small businesses using the platform, with about $100,000 in annual recurring revenue. The team is still just seven people and in the process of raising $1 million in pre-seed funding.
Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo Ivan Mehta.
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