Your books tell you what happened. Interpret tells you what it means.
Interpret connects your general ledger and business systems to produce profitability by customer, product, and segment — without replacing your accounting software or hiring a data team.
You know this problem
You have $20M+ in revenue, 100+ customers, and a finance team that's good at closing the books. But when the CEO asks "which customers are actually profitable?" or "what does our margin look like by product line?" — the answer is a week of spreadsheet work.
- QuickBooks gives you a P&L. It doesn't give you a P&L by customer, by product, by segment. So you export to Sheets and allocate manually.
- Your CRM knows your customers. Your GL knows your costs. Nothing connects the two. So your controller builds pivot tables every month.
- Cost allocation is tribal knowledge. "40% of AWS goes to the enterprise tier." "CS hours get split by account size." It lives in someone's head and a formula bar, not a system.
- NetSuite could solve this. It's also a $100K+ implementation and a 6-month migration you don't have time for.
- You've looked at FP&A tools. They want to own your forecast. You just want to understand what's already happened, broken out by the segments that matter.
Interpret does one thing well
We connect to your existing accounting and business systems, apply the allocation rules your finance team already uses (but currently implements in spreadsheets), and produce profitability views by any segment you care about.
No new GL. No data warehouse project. No migration. Your books stay where they are. Interpret reads them, allocates costs, and gives you the breakdown you've been building manually.
How it works
Connect your systems
GL (QuickBooks, Sage, Xero), CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot), and billing or usage systems. Read-only. Takes minutes.
Map your chart of accounts
Interpret reads your GL accounts and suggests cost categories. You validate and adjust. No manual data entry — your accounts are already there.
Define allocation rules
Usage-based, time-based, proportional, or direct. The same logic your team applies in spreadsheets, codified once and applied automatically every period.
See profitability by segment
Customer, product, department, region — whatever cuts matter to your business. Updated when your books close, tied back to the GL so your controller trusts it.
Built for the gap between QuickBooks and NetSuite
Finance leads at $15–75M companies
You've outgrown your accounting software's reporting but you're not ready for (or don't need) a full ERP migration. You need answers now, not a 6-month implementation.
Controllers doing manual allocation
Every month you export from the GL, pull data from the CRM, and build the same spreadsheet. The formulas work. They just shouldn't be formulas — they should be a system.
CEOs and COOs who ask questions the GL can't answer
"What's our gross margin by customer tier?" "Which product line is actually profitable after fully-loaded costs?" Today that's a project. It should be a tab.
Connects to what you already use
Read-only connections. Your data stays in your systems. Interpret pulls what it needs to run allocations, nothing more.
Early access opening Q2 2026
We're onboarding a small number of design partners to shape the product. If this sounds like your problem, we'd like to talk.