The finance department, done properly.
Solden is a small team with accounting, fintech, enterprise sales, design and engineering backgrounds, building the month-end close first. Reviewers at Solden are qualified, experienced accountants and controllers, named to your account.
Finance has changed its tools many times. Not its model.
For decades, most companies have built a finance department the same way. Hire a bookkeeper, then accountants, then a controller, then a CFO. Close the books by hand, every month. Pay an outside firm for whatever the team cannot cover. Growth has meant more people, and more people to review the people.
Each wave since has changed the tools or the cost of labour, not the model. Ledgers moved into ERPs and spreadsheets. Close software added checklists and dashboards. Outsourcing moved work to firms and offshore centres, billed by the hour. The work got faster, or cheaper. Through all of it, the company still owned the work, the handoffs, the review and the result, and every new system needed people to run it.
AI changes the model, not just the tools. It can now do the recurring work of finance itself, not only organise it. Done right, a company no longer has to assemble its finance department from hires, tools and firms.
That is why Solden is built as a finance department, not another tool. Software and agents inside it do that work. Qualified accountants and controllers at Solden review it before you see it. Your controller decides the judgement calls and attests.
Most companies will stop building a finance department. They will run on one.
The finance department becomes infrastructure. Always running, always proven.
Like any infrastructure, it starts from the foundation. Solden takes on the department beneath your CFO and controller in a fixed order, accounting and the close first. A function is added only when the one before it is repeatable.
- Accounting and the close01 · Building now
- Controllership02 · Next
- FP&A03
- Tax and compliance04
- Strategic finance05
Controllership
Controls and approvals as a running record, audit coordination, entity operations, finance systems administration.
Approved by your controllerFP&A
Rolling cash, budget against actuals, forecast maintenance with every assumption versioned, board reporting.
Approved by your CFOTax and compliance
Filings prepared with complete support from attested closes, controls evidenced continuously.
Approved by your controller or CFOStrategic finance
Commitments, capital and the decision pack: what the numbers mean and what needs a decision.
Approved by your CFOFilings, money movement, payroll approval and external representations stay with you in every function.
Hand us your close.
Tell us how it runs today. If it is a fit, Solden reproduces a period you have already closed, and you judge the result against your own.
- One monthly price for the close, set by entities and transaction volume. Not seats or hours. Quoted after the replay.
- Read-only access. No migration, no rollout to your team
- A reply within two business days, then a short call to scope your replay
We reply within two business days.
Next is a short call to pick the period and scope for your replay: one close you have already reported, run again and set beside your own figures.
Meanwhile, read how responsibility transfers, from a read-only connection to a live close.