Joe Zhou

cofounder @usemonk

[Monk @usemonk]

We're obsessed with helping you get paid fast.

We wrapped up the Gartner conference last weekend and had over 100 conversations with finance leaders who are actively rethinking how they run AR.

The pattern we kept hearing: solutions take months to implement and still aren't AI-native.

Monk goes live in days, not months.
White-glove onboarding and 7-day support.
AI-native from day one. Julia, our agent, drives 24% faster responses than standard dunning.

$1B in AR already under management. 

Next stop, London for Tech Week and Stripe Tour 2026. If you'll be there, reach out.

[Monk @usemonk]

We just crossed $1B in receivables under management.

Next stop: Automate 2026 (June 22-25, Chicago). First AI-native AR automation company to exhibit.

Come find us if you're there.
https://t.co/akES0qoL7f

[Monk @usemonk]

The hard part of cash application isn't matching payments to invoices. It's figuring out what the payor intended.

A $9,750 payment on a $10,000 invoice could be a short-pay, an approved discount, a processor fee, or an error. The answer changes everything downstream.

full breakdown in thread 👇

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Today @usemonk is sharing the definitive AR guide. Written for CFOs evaluating build vs. buy, RevOps leaders tired of finance escalations, and AR teams stuck running the same manual playbook on a new tool.

Most AR content is about collections tactics: send reminders, escalate faster, call more.

What no one talks about is that high DSO is rarely a pure collections problem. It's an infrastructure problem that starts the moment a contract is signed.

At @usemonk we spent the past year working with finance teams across SaaS, services, and manufacturing businesses of all sizes. The same failure points keep showing up: (1) every late payment and customer are treated the same, (2) recurring exceptions handled manually, (3) dunning that fires on a schedule instead of responding to context, and (4) cash application that lags close by days.

Above all - we've seen the work from the last mile of AR (the edge cases) fall back on the working team. Not okay.

Fixing these issues is what drives 40%+ DSO reduction. A better email template and a dunning sequence are not helpful.

Link in comments (no paywall or code needed to read). All yours.

Happy to answer any questions

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

searching for a visual designer who obsesses over their craft

- ASAP start
- remote or in-person in NYC
- email portfolio to [email protected]

[Joe Zhou @zhou_squared]

@pitdesi @footworkvc @AcrewCapital thank you team! excited for more with you

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Monk gets you paid faster- a lot faster

Monk customers see cash in hand increase by 40%, and median time to go live is only 4 days.

They just raised $25M from @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital to crush the $3T AR gap.

Hiring in NYC: https://t.co/cdh9fJfIin

[Andrew McKinzie @onnbase]

We're thrilled to announce that @AcrewCapital has co-led @usemonk's $25M Series A alongside our friends @nbt and Mike Smith at @footworkvc , with continued support from our other friend @pitdesi at @btv_vc! Monk is building the AI-native revenue and collections platform that is redefining how modern companies get paid. We're proud to partner with @GeorgeKurdin and Joe Zhou as they bring the enterprise revenue cycle into the modern day.

[nihar bobba @nbobba]

.@usemonk just raised a $25m Series A led by @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital

Monk is an extremely high talent density vertical AI co out of NYC deploying financial agents across some of businesses most critical workflows, starting with Accounts Receivable (AR)

@GeorgeKurdin, Joe and the Monk team are a special breed that can build, adapt and navigate across multiple arcs of time, strategy and competition while the ground under our feet shifts in real time. If you're looking to advance your career, this will be the place

And a very warm welcome to the team @nbt @msmith492 and @LaurenKolodny!

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Today @usemonk is announcing our $25M Series A co-led by @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital with continued support from @btv_vc.

$3T sits in U.S. accounts receivable. Our mission is to close the gap between earning revenue and receiving it.

For most B2B companies, that gap is 45-90 days, thousands of hours of manual work per year, and millions in trapped working capital. It's a tax every growing business pays.

Monk invented the Intelligent Collections category.

Most AR tools automate the easy parts. We built for the edge cases, portal uploads, PO mismatches, and disputes.

On average, customers see 40% lower DSO, 24% higher collections response rate and 25+ hours/month saved.

Thank you to @ElevenLabs, @tryprofound, @siro_app, and our customers for the trust.

Our platform typically pays for itself in month one.
Book a demo to learn more.

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

good day for businesses who want to get paid fast because @mdmorgan0 joins @usemonk .

prior @mdmorgan0 spent time in GTM/ops and similar to 40% of our team - was also a founder.

in all parts of the company (not just eng) - we run a # of experiments. we've gone through many iterations of the interview process. Michael had a top 0.1% role agnostic score and has already made an impact by giving our GTM more structure.

welcome @mdmorgan0

lets build

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Brodie breaks down how real-time contract to invoice processing module works on our platform

Figuring out what parts of the workflow should be solved by agents vs. deterministic code vs. the end-user is an art.

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Brodie breaks down how real-time contract to invoice processing module works on the Monk platform

There are a # of unique things in this video:

- figuring out what parts of the contract to invoice workflow should be solved by agents vs. deterministic code vs. the end-user and why

- what needs to be true for results to be near real-time (no need to wait 24hrs for the contract to process)

Check out what Brodie, @zhou_squared and team built to save you time and get you paid faster

Link in comments

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

gorgeous site from @AnthropicAI sharing what 81,000 people want from AI

one screenshot of what stuck with our team at @usemonk (and we are of course biased)

professionalism/empathy are the underlying principles behind our intelligent collections module

[Joe Zhou @zhou_squared]

@scaling_shields VAULT

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

took a while to make this happen, but is 100% worth it because Nurah will raise our bar.

Nurah joins @usemonk from @jpmorgan to take on ops.

Nurah is a perpetual learner. She transferred from Rutgers to @georgetown in search for more.

At @georgetown Nurah was a baker scholar and double majored in philosophy/econ.

In her first 2 weeks Nurah has already:
- improved our onboarding process
- shipped 3 growth marketing experiments
- became a trusted advisor to our customers
and a thought partner in how we are building the business

It's hard to imagine our team without Nurah despite the fact that it's only been 2 weeks.

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Most billing tools say they integrate with @salesforce. They mean they read a few standard fields. And it's implied that the integration is brittle.

Today @usemonk is launching our native integration with @salesforce

We do a # of things differently:
1/ when a deal closes, @usemonk picks it up in real time (no batch sync). We use frontier models to read the full opportunity (standard fields, custom fields, attachments, everything) and create a billing schedule.
2/ we deploy a native managed package. This is not a connector and not a polling system. Real-time webhooks, access to your SFDC data model, and sandbox support are part of it.
3/ @usemonk supports every permutation of a B2B SaaS commercial term. If your sales team can sell it - we can bill for it
4/ Significant guardrails are built in (via our system and via flagging for your review) to ensure that everything is correct.

If your team spends time setting up billing after the deal closes - we'd love to help.

Blog in comments on what's unique about @usemonk integration and what it means for reliability for our customers.

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

great thing about claude/LLMs is that for the first time - every single teammate can and will build something awesome and non-performative at a hackathon

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

more updates on @usemonk platform: 5 modules + 16 features

we continue to innovate in the intelligent collections domain while rethinking the feedback loop between agents/end-users

props to Brodie, Oat, @francescocoacci and Mr. @zhou_squared on obsessive work behind all of these changes

details in comments

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

reporting an increase in phone booths and HubSpot seats at @usemonk as Jacob joins us from @brexHQ as founding GTM

Jacob was the fastest promotion from BDR to AE in @brexHQ history!

energy match was clear from first call = look @zhou_squared smile

onwards