You launched. Revenue is moving. Maybe you have your first ten clients or paying users. Everything is exciting — and your books are a mess. Accounts are partially maintained, payroll was set up informally, and investors are starting to ask questions you do not have clean answers to. You know this needs fixing. You just haven't had time.
“I have seen Series A deals collapse — and more often get severely repriced — because of three months of transactions maintained in a spreadsheet. The investor does not care that you were too busy building a product. They see what the books show. And every unrecorded liability reduces your valuation. The cleanup cost is always lower than the valuation discount. Always.”
We start with a compliance audit — what is clean, what needs fixing, what is at risk. We fix the highest-risk items first. Then we produce the financial picture your investor will see. We aim to get you audit-ready 90 days before you actually need it — not 2 weeks before the term sheet conversation.
Meera's startup was 16 months old and approaching Series A. All accounting was done in Excel. Transactions from the first 18 months had never been entered into proper accounting software. Payroll for 6 employees had been processed without TDS registration for the first 8 months. The investor brought in an auditor.
₹45L in unrecorded liabilities. TDS demand of ₹3.2L plus interest. Missing documentation for ₹12L in business expenses. The investor reduced their valuation offer by ₹2 crore and extended the due diligence timeline by 6 weeks.
Reconstructed 18 months of accounts from bank statements, invoices and receipts. Handled TDS regularisation with successful penalty mitigation. Produced investor-grade certified financial statements and a complete due diligence documentation package.
Every unrecorded liability found in due diligence reduces your valuation by more than the cost of fixing it. Every unresolved TDS issue extends your fundraising timeline by weeks. Investor auditors are not looking for problems — they are documenting everything they find.
Six months gives you time to fix issues quietly, produce certified statements calmly, and walk into due diligence with a documentation package ready. Six weeks gives you nothing but pressure and a repriced term sheet.
“Meera's case cost ₹45 lakh to fix under pressure in 4 weeks. It would have cost ₹1.8 lakh to maintain properly every month from month one. The maths of clean books is always unambiguous. We never see it calculated in advance — only after the due diligence finds the gap.”