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摘要: Ian Crosby is back with a new accounting startup for the agentic AI era

Alex Riehl

May 14, 2026

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Ian Crosby is back with a new accounting startup for the agentic AI era

Alex Riehl

May 14, 2026

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Three-time Canadian founder raises $10 million USD for San Francisco-based Synthetic.

Ian Crosby is on his third accounting startup, and he’s not even sure if this one is possible.

After co-founding Vancouver-based business bookkeeping software

Bench Accounting

in 2011, and then the “Stripe for accounting” with

in 2023, Crosby is back with

Synthetic

and a big bet: that he can make the future of bookkeeping autonomous.

“I don’t know if this is possible yet.”

Ian Crosby, Synthetic

The elevator pitch is that Synthetic can provide software businesses with an AI agent that automatically completes their books by connecting to banking, payroll, billing systems, and inboxes, before asking its human bosses the necessary clarifying questions to fill in any blank spots.

“It doesn’t have to get everything right on its own, as long as it knows what things it should ask about,” Crosby told

in an interview last month.

Synthetic is “the next level up” in AI software, Crosby said, because instead of an assistive AI tool being the responsibility of the human, it’s entirely on the system.

“It’s like a drive assist tool [where] if you crash the car, it’s still on you; you’re supposed to have your hands on the wheel,” Crosby said, comparing Synthetic to “a truly autonomous system, like Waymo, where …  no one’s touching the steering wheel, and if it crashes, it’s Waymo’s fault.”

Of course, Crosby is dealing in theoreticals. He’s been working on Synthetic with his five-person team since last year, and the system is still making mistakes in the “crash test phase,”

as AI does

. While every new AI model release improves performance, there are still some tests that the bookkeeping agents sometimes ace and sometimes fail.

The Synthetic team. Image courtesy Synthetic.

Accounting is a spac

来源: Brave/betakit.com

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