Monk

AI-native accounts receivable platform. Stop chasing invoices, get paid fast.

[Monk @usemonk]

This week we announced Net30, our summit on the future of finance in the age of automation (oct 21, 5-8pm)

we're gathering operators, founders and researchers for an evening of discussions on:
1/ on cash flow as a growth metric
2/ the evolution of the strategic finance role
3/ thoughtful AI deployment

Hosted at Times Center in NYC.

Request an invite in the comments.

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

welcoming Jeffrey Chi to the engineering team at @usemonk!

Jeffrey joins us from Aleysian, where he was a principal technical consultant working on ERP integrations. he studied at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned an MS in computer science plus a BA in economics and computer science, with a minor in writing.

in his first few weeks, Jeffrey has:
- pulled off one of our fastest engineering ramp periods & smoothest customer handoffs
- upgraded ERP integration capabilities to support more complex billing experiences
- improved customer go-live experience and love-bombed them through same-day turnarounds
- shipped a 5:32am PR to support a customer (Jeffrey please sleep)

fun fact - Jeffrey has completed over 700 ny times crosswords, and counting

welcome aboard, Jeffrey

[Monk @usemonk]

From poker night, to happy hour, to Run Club, thank you to everyone who spent part of their week in Vegas with Monk.

We look forward to seeing you next year!

[Monk @usemonk]

Read the full changelog here: https://t.co/0MQTet8xWD

[Monk @usemonk]

New on Monk: Introducing Spotlight, see the collections Julia, our AI collections agent, has verified, and replay any of them step by step. This release also lets you export dashboards as slide decks, adds a new Voice analytics tab, and lets you assign blocked portal tasks to the right teammate.

See the full changelog for October 15 to October 31st at the link below.

[Monk @usemonk]

SuiteWorld and Intuit Connect are a wrap! Here’s a look at our week in Vegas:

- handed out $1 bills (because everyone deserves to get paid fast)
- brought Monk Run Club to Vegas with a sunrise 5K
- hosted a private poker night at the Palms Penthouse
- drove our Monk sweepstakes truck around the strip
- co-hosted happy hour with @tipalti

Thank you to everyone who came out. We can’t wait for next year.

[SourceForge @sourceforge]

Explore how @usemonk helps finance teams automate accounts receivable with task-specific AI autonomy, human oversight, confidence thresholds, and safeguards against financial risks.

https://t.co/BGwoJXR2IN

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Heading to Vegas next week for QuickBooks Connect or Suiteworld? Come run with @usemonk and @taxwire_inc before the first keynote.

We're hosting the Vegas Run Club on Monday, October 26 at 7:30am. Coffee and Liquid IV will be waiting at the finish, as well as more Monk running hats.

RSVP in the comments.

[Monk @usemonk]

Net 30 was a full house!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Times Center. Here’s a quick look at the night. Recordings of the talks are coming soon.

Net 30 NYC is the first of many. See you at the next one and stay tuned for more.

[GTMnow @GTMnow_]

Time savings is no longer a compelling enough AI pitch.

As @GeorgeKurdin, co-founder of @usemonk, puts it: what happens when you save someone 5 hours, only for them to spend that time on Reddit?

Nobody is piloting AI anymore. The conversations he's having with customers now are about hard ROI - bottom line, top line or margin.

Hours returned to someone's calendar don't count unless you can say what they did with them.

"It's no longer about just procuring a solution. It's also how do you get the company to actually use the solution."

[Monk @usemonk]

Net 30 is tomorrow! We're so excited to welcome everyone to the The Times Center for an evening of discussions on cash flow, agentic finance, and the future of the CFO role with an incredible line up of speakers.

If you registered, we look forward to seeing you tomorrow evening!

[Monk @usemonk]

@DrivetrainAI @RilletHQ @tryramp @Anrok Link to RSVP https://t.co/ZSfj5v57zg

[Monk @usemonk]

Join us on 10/29 for the AI CFO Stack Demo Day with Monk, @DrivetrainAI, @RilletHQ, @tryramp, & @Anrok

Short demos, all in one hour

1pm ET / 10am PT, RSVP link in the comments

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

run club had its biggest turnout yet last week for the Oktoberfest edition. Thanks to everyone who came out

The November edition is coming, stay tuned for updates

@raincards @jpmorgan @usemonk

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Adam has built companies as a founder, invested in them as a venture partner and now runs finance at one of the leading billing platforms for AI and software companies. At Net 30, he will join our closing panel to discuss how CFOs drive profitable growth and how AI is changing the finance organization.

As finance teams take on more of the operating agenda, Adam brings the view of someone who has been the founder, the investor and the CFO. We look forward to his insights on the Net 30 stage.

October 21st // New York, hosted by @usemonk at The Times Center

Request an invite in comments

[Monk @usemonk]

Full changelog updates from October 1 - 15th: https://t.co/K3URAkxDmN

[Monk @usemonk]

New on Monk: Call Logs are easier to scan, so you can play any call recording right from the list and read the transcript as a back-and-forth between the Monk agent and your customer. Also in this release, remittances you can link straight from the transaction, and stuck portal uploads that show what’s blocking them, like a 2FA code or a failed login, so your team can respond accordingly.

Full changelog from October 1st to October 15th in the link below.

[JC Bahr-de Stefano @jbahrdestefano]

This is shaping up to be an amazing gathering of finance folks talking ab how AI is changing their work

next Wed (10/21) in NYC, request an invite: https://t.co/UfaYNhe6sR

[Monk @usemonk]

@GTMnow_ such a great ep!

[GTMnow @GTMnow_]

NEW: How @usemonk is going after the $1.5B+ problem every business ignores, getting paid

Monk already handles $1.5B+ in receivables and has raised ~$28M through its Series A. They're taking on the accounts receivable side of the ledger (think the opposite of AP)

George Kurdin (Co-Founder of Monk) joins GTMnow to break down how he's building with a 16-person team: the harness as the real moat in applied AI, why he picked a market the labs won't touch for a decade, selling hard ROI over time savings, and much more.

George was a professional poker player, then led Streamlabs through its sale to Logitech, before building Monk. He runs it with 16 people, almost no meetings, and everything out in the open in Slack, from investor updates to wins and losses.

Highlights:
01:12 George's path: poker, operator, exited CEO, founder
01:57 What pro poker taught him: variance, discipline, and adaptation
04:46 What Monk is: AR automation, the other side of the ledger
05:37 Why an engineer now says sales and marketing is "tier zero"
07:25 The pre-seed website bet that lifted close rates ~50%
10:13 Building Monk's culture: speed, ownership, clarity
11:23 How they operationalize accountability (everything in Slack)
16:18 Why solve accounts receivable, and reverse-engineering a big TAM
18:31 Why the frontier labs won't disrupt them
19:53 Why invoices get stuck: the nine-variable problem
22:06 The "harness" as the real moat in applied AI
24:58 Why precision and security are "tier zero" in finance
25:31 Hard ROI over "time savings" as the new AI value prop
28:09 The thing nobody tells you about founding a company
29:00 Fundraising advice: compress the process to create FOMO
30:19 The best advice he got: invest in the co-founder relationship

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[Monk @usemonk]

Read about the update on the Monk blog: https://t.co/bth1qCsb7A

[Monk @usemonk]

We just shipped Custom Dashboards in Monk, so anyone on a finance team can build their own reports. Building one takes about a minute:

- describe the widget you want in plain language, and Monk’s agent builds it
- or add one from the catalog, like top 10 outstanding invoices or total collected month to date
- pick the columns, set the date range, arrange the grid and save

AR reporting is no longer one-size-fits-all.

Live for every Monk customer today. @francescocoacci walks through the update in the video below.