AI-powered bookkeeping for developers, freelancers, and people who'd rather write code than reconcile transactions.
No credit card required.
Most bookkeeping software was built for accountants and then dumbed down for everyone else. Cooked Books was built for people who think in APIs, not spreadsheets.
Import your bank transactions. Let the AI categorize them. Review what it did. Hit approve. That's it. That's bookkeeping.
Drop in a CSV, connect your bank, or paste a Stripe export. We'll parse it.
Rules match what they can. Claude handles the rest. You approve everything.
P&L, balance sheet, cash flow — all generated from your categorized transactions.
Import a bank statement. The AI matches transactions to accounts using rules it learns from your history — and falls back to Claude when it sees something new.
Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client. Your LLM categorizes transactions using your API key, your credits. We never touch your AI keys.
Real double-entry accounting. Journal entries, debits and credits, balance sheets that balance. Your accountant will be pleasantly confused.
Drag in your bank export. Connect via Plaid. Import Stripe charges with fees split out automatically. We've seen some weird formats.
CLI, API, or MCP — talk to your books however you want.
Or ask Claude: "What did I spend on travel last quarter?" and get a real answer from real data.
You have a side project that accidentally makes money. Now you need to track it. Congrats, I guess.
You're the CEO, CTO, and CFO. At least one of those jobs should be easy.
You invoice people and money shows up eventually. Let's keep track of where it all goes.
Sponsorship revenue, venue costs, speaker travel — we know because we built this for Deep Dish Swift.
Bring your own LLM via MCP and pay almost nothing. Or let us handle the AI.
Connect your own LLM via MCP. AI runs on your machine, using your API key. We never see it.
We handle the AI. No API key needed. Just import and go.
You hired help. Good for you. AI included.
All plans include the full API, CLI, and self-hosting option. BYOA means you connect your own LLM via MCP — the AI runs on your side using your own API key. We never store or see your AI credentials. Pro and Team users get AI built in.
Real double-entry bookkeeping. Journal entries, chart of accounts, balance sheets, P&L. Your accountant can review the actual ledger.
Yes. They get their own login and can review everything. They'll probably have opinions about your chart of accounts. That's normal.
You review everything before it hits the ledger. Nothing happens without your say-so.
No. But you'll accidentally learn some. Debits go on the left. That's free.
Yes. We have a QuickBooks import parser. It's cathartic.
Encrypted at rest and in transit. Or self-host and keep everything on your own infrastructure.
That's fine. Start free. Import some transactions. Let the AI do its thing.