What makes Basis special? (i.e., your narrative toolkit)
We’re building at the frontier of applied AI, and we’re one of the few application layer companies whose agents are actually deployed into firms, doing real work. Basis is leading the charge in converting raw model intelligence into economic productivity.
Few startups are doing this at all; none are doing it in an industry as critical as accounting.
Accounting is the grammar of our financial economy. It is how the complexity of the real world is compressed into legible financial data, which individuals and firms use to make decisions. The quality of accounting directly impacts the overall quality of economic decision making.
Working in the real economy
By vastly improving the quality of accounting, we want to arm individuals and firms with more robust, real-time financial data, and create a world where better decisions are made.
Right now, that means arming accountants with teams of agents that take on their most laborious/manual tasks, guiding them towards a real-time close, and unlocking insights that would have otherwise remained hidden.
In the future, it could mean ushering in a world where there is a 1000x increase in accounting, and a commensurate increase in the quality of decision making.