For bootstrapped software and digital-product businesses

Stripe says one thing. Your books say another. Recouped finds out by how much.

Stripe, Paddle or Lemon Squeezy. Deterministic reconciliation, prepared every month for your accountant to sign. Start with a free check on one month of your own data.

Money logic is deterministic. AI reads and explains. It never adds, matches, or decides.

We work with

Every month, four numbers drift. Nobody ties them.

Dashboard MRR
$51,900.00
Stripe paid out
$48,013.48
Bank received
$46,988.31
Books recorded
$52,418.90

The bank rec still ties, one payout in transit. Nobody tied the books to Stripe, and nobody tied Stripe to the dashboard.

$4,405.42overstated in the books, one month
  • Refunds (7) not synced−$2,204.00
  • Stripe fees never booked−$1,571.42
  • Dispute lost, not booked−$630.00
  • Books overstated by$4,405.42
What that costs you
  • Tax on profit you never made

    $4,405.42 in one month is $52,865 across a year. Revenue high, expenses low, and the return gets filed on it.

  • Margin you plan spend on

    Fees, refunds and disputes land in the wrong month, so channel margin and payback are wrong in the month you use them.

  • A diligence finding, later

    A buyer’s accountant ties the books to Stripe. Whatever nobody checked becomes a re-price, a quarter of rework, or a deal that doesn’t close.

Recouped ties all three, every month. Whatever won’t tie is listed, with the correction it needs.

Start with a free check on one month of your own data. Keep going with a month your accountant signs. Deterministic the whole way. No model guesses at money.

  1. The free check

    Find out what’s missing from your books before you pay for anything.

    Send one month of exports from your platform, your bank and your ledger. Three files. No call to book first. Within a week you get every exception, what it’s worth, and how long it takes to fix. Nothing is retained.

    Delivered within a week. Nothing retained.

  2. The signed close

    Every month prepared so your accountant can sign it in about an hour.

    Every payout tied to its charges, fees, refunds and disputes. Every exception with the correction it needs. The books tied to the platform, not just to the bank.

    From $750 a month. Prepared by Recouped, signed by your accountant.

  3. The rule

    Money logic is deterministic. AI reads and explains; it never adds, matches, or decides.

    A tiered rules engine matches every line and logs the rule it used. The same inputs give the same answer, and the rule log lets your accountant check every line.

    99.7% of lines match on the first pass. The rest is the product.

Priced on complexity, not per transaction.

Start with the check. Nothing else begins until it has told you what a month of your own data is hiding. After that it is a flat fee, keyed to how many payouts and sources you have, never per transaction.

Start here

Free check

One month of your own data, read line by line.

$0one month
Request a checkWhat comes back
  • Exception list and break count
  • Dollar exposure and hours to fix
  • A 30-minute readout
  • Delivered within a week
Nothing retained. No sales sequence.

Scoped retainer

The close, plus the person who fixes what it keeps finding at the source.

$1,500a month, on top of your close tier
Ask about a retainerThe close, plus
  • A written scope each month, agreed before any work starts
  • Two business days to a real answer on a money question
  • Fee, refund and payout posting rules corrected at the source
  • A new platform, a new entity or a ledger cleanup handled inside the scope
For when the close keeps finding the same thing.

Exit-ready pack

Listing on Acquire, or talking to a buyer? The workpapers their accountant will ask for, before they ask.

$3,50012 months, one processor
Ask about the packWhat it covers
  • $6,000 for 24 months, or multi-source
  • Every payout tied, every exception explained
  • Credited against a close if the sale hasn’t closed in six months
Quoted from a check.

Custom

When a check finds a structural problem, not a break.

Customfixed scope, quoted
Digital SprintHow it runs
  • Quoted from what the check found
  • Built by Digital Sprint, the studio behind Recouped
  • The close keeps running while it is built
Entitlement logic, sync rules, anything the ledger can’t fix.

Bookkeeper or CPA?

Refer a Stripe-heavy client. They get the free check; if it becomes a close, you take 20% for twelve months, and your name stays on the close. Wholesale pricing opens later, from measured hours. Software or hardware clients, the terms are the same.

Refer a client

Questions

Keep them. Your bookkeeper reconciles the bank, and it ties, because every deposit matches a payout line. Recouped ties the platform to the bank and to the books, line by line, and hands your bookkeeper the exceptions. They review and sign.

Synder, A2X, Bookkeep and the like move the data. Whether the fee, the refund and the dispute were posted right is exactly what nobody checks. The free check tells you, on one month of your own data.

Then tax comes out before the payout. The usual break is booking the payout gross, or booking the tax again on top. The check finds that in month one.

Yes. Fees never booked and refunds never synced are wrong on any basis. And the day you talk to a buyer, a lender or an investor, their accountant redoes the tie, starting from Stripe.

The free check is worth running at any size. The signed close starts to make sense around $25k a month through the platform, or earlier with a second processor or a second entity.

One month with a ten-day tail on each side contains both month-end boundaries, which is where timing breaks show. What more months add is recurrence and a run rate. The signed close gives you that from the first month on, and the exit-ready pack does it retrospectively.

No. The signed close is a management control, like a reviewed bank reconciliation. Recouped prepares it; the person with authority over the books signs it. No attestation, no assurance.

The free check retains nothing: the data is deleted once the write-up is sent, and you get a note confirming it. The signed close keeps each month’s artifact and workpapers, encrypted and access-controlled, for as long as you’re a client, then exports them to you.

Find out by how much.

One month of your own data, read line by line. No call to book first, no sales sequence, nothing retained.

  1. You tell us your platform and ledger

    The form below. Thirty seconds.

  2. We reply within one business day

    With exactly which exports to send, and a secure way to send them.

  3. The write-up comes back within a week

    Every exception, what it is worth, and the hours to fix it. A 30-minute readout if you want one.

  4. Everything is deleted

    You get a note confirming it. What you keep is the write-up.

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Nothing retained. No sales sequence.