A 3-second question. For most funded founders, a 3-hour answer.
Klire connects Mercury + Stripe and turns your balance into the number that matters: months until zero. Live, always true, no bookkeeping. You ship fast — know you're default alive.
Checking isn't knowing. The balance tells you what's there — not how long it lasts.
You instrumented latency, error rates, token spend per user. Everything except your own survival. That's the dashboard that kills companies — the one that doesn't exist.
Last edited seven weeks ago. Your spreadsheet was right exactly once — the day you built it. Every decision since has run on fiction.
"Quick q — what's your runway?" You said eleven months. It was 8.5. He knew your burn rate before you did, from your own update email.
Chart of accounts, reconciliation, accountant-brain. You don't need accounting at pre-revenue. You need to know if you're dying.
Not a vibe. Klire tells you the day your cash hits zero — and updates it every time money moves. See the cliff before you walk off it.
Where the money actually goes, grouped the way founders think — not the way ledgers do. Spot the $1,900 of API tokens you forgot about.
"You'll miss payroll in March unless MRR grows 18%." "Delaware franchise tax hits in 21 days — already in your projection." Plain words, every morning. Never sugarcoated.
Four numbers, one chart, one alert. We'd rather ship a dashboard you check every morning than a suite you configure for a week. Here's exactly where the line is.
No card now. Pay only when beta opens. The lock survives the price going to $29.
Soon. We're sequencing the first 100 founders carefully so onboarding actually works. Waitlist position decides invite order.
No. Works whether you're pre-incorp or a Delaware C-corp running on Mercury. We treat the founder as the unit, not the entity.
v1: Mercury, Stripe, and most US banks (Chase, Brex, and the rest) via Plaid — all read-only. That's the whole story on purpose. Tell us what else you live in — reply to the welcome email; founding users set the integration order.
Read-only connections through Plaid — the same rails Mercury and Ramp customers already trust. Klire can see transactions, never move money. No credentials stored, encrypted at rest, one-click disconnect.
Mercury shows what happened in one bank. Klire sees your bank + Stripe + everything else, projects six months forward, and tells you what's about to happen. Mercury shows the balance. Klire shows the deadline.
No — and it never will. Klire puts US tax deadlines on your cash timeline with estimated amounts: Delaware franchise tax (most startups owe ~$400–800, not the five-figure number on the scary letter), quarterly estimates, 1099 dates. Taxes become scheduled outflows instead of ambushes. Filing stays with your CPA.
Yes, with one honest caveat: v1 connects Stripe (works day one, answers "what did I actually keep") but not EU bank feeds yet. Founding users vote on which integrations ship next — EU banks are on the ballot.
QuickBooks is bookkeeping for accountants. Pilot is a service that charges you to do your books. Numeric and Mosaic are built for finance teams at scale. Klire is for the founder who doesn't have a finance team — and doesn't want one yet.
None. The price doesn't go up on you. We lock it forever for the first 1,000. After that, $29/mo for everyone else.
About four minutes: connect Mercury + Stripe, see your real runway. No chart of accounts, no categorizing, no onboarding call. The longest step is finding your phone for 2FA.
"We thought we had a year.
We had five months."
— every startup postmortem, eventually
None of them failed at product. They failed at arithmetic.
Private beta opens soon. The first 1,000 founders lock $14.99/mo for life. Next time someone asks your runway: screenshot, send, back to shipping.
That's it — you're in. We'll email you the moment beta opens, with your founding $14.99/mo locked in. Want to skip the line? Reply to that email with one line about what you're building.