About Hyphenate

Most AI companies are building copilots.

Hyphenate is building the AI operating system for the CFO office. Our Audit-Ready AI Agents connect to a company's existing finance stack—ERPs, banks, billing, payroll, CRM, contracts, spreadsheets, email, and Slack—and automate the work behind the entire order-to-cash process, record-to-report process, treasury management, financial reporting, and audit readiness.

The goal isn't to help the finance team write better prompts.

The goal is for finance teams to review exceptions while AI does the rest.

What makes Hyphenate different is our Unified Finance Context—a financial understanding layer that captures transactions, policies, contracts, historical decisions, and accounting judgment. On top of it sit Audit-Ready AI Agents that can reason, explain their decisions, escalate uncertainty, and continuously improve.

We've raised $9M led by Foundation Capital, alongside BoldCap, Gaia Ventures, Aravind Srinivas (CEO of Perplexity), and finance leaders from Zuora, Ramp, Gusto, MongoDB, Zoom, and the Big Four.

What You'll Own

You won't get a starter ticket and a six-month ramp plan.

You'll join a pod of 2–3 engineers that owns a finance domain end-to-end—revenue, cash, close, reporting, payroll, fixed assets, tax, or controls—and you'll own real surface area inside it from your first month: context, prompts, tools, evals, guardrails, and the product around them. A senior engineer pairs with you closely at the start. The bar is that you're scoping and shipping your own work by the end of your first quarter.

No PM writes your specs. No architecture committee approves your ideas. You'll sit with the controllers, accountants, and CFOs who do the work today, understand it properly, then build the agent system that replaces it.

"New grad" is how you start here. It isn't a track, and it isn't a ceiling.

Problems Worth Your Brain

How do you build AI agents that finance teams and auditors can trust? Verification, guardrails, observability, and evaluation systems for non-deterministic AI.

How do you give an agent the right financial context? Context engineering over transactions, ledgers, contracts, policies, and historical decisions—without bloat, drift, or data leakage.

How do you turn messy enterprise systems into a unified source of truth? Ingest, normalize, and reconcile data from ERPs, banks, payroll, billing platforms, CRMs, and email.

How do you build agents that get better over time? Systems that explain their reasoning, escalate uncertainty instead of guessing, and improve measurably from human corrections.

How do you orchestrate durable AI workflows in the real world? Long-running, replay-safe workflows across flaky, stateful enterprise systems.

How do you safely write back to systems of record? Idempotent, audit-ready updates to ERPs and financial systems with full traceability.

A Few Strong Opinions

The engineer who can't operate AI agents fluently is becoming obsolete, fast. Fluency with Claude Code, Cursor, and internal agent tooling is a second cortex. Come knowing how to use them; leave knowing how to build with them.

"Backend vs. frontend" is dissolving. The agents do the typing. The constraint is product judgment, system design, and the ability to close the loop from problem to shipped feature. Our engineers ship full-stack when the work calls for it.

The pod is the unit of leverage. Two engineers who can hold an entire module in their heads ship more than ten engineers who each own a slice. Specialization across pods, generalist within them.

The accountant + engineer loop is the moat. Engineers who sit with controllers and build from what they see compound faster than the ones who don't. That starts on day one, not after you've "earned" customer access.

We hire for slope as much as intercept—but the intercept still has to clear the bar. We care how fast you learn. We also care that you've already built things that were hard.

What Great Looks Like Here

You learn fast and ship faster. You can pick up an unfamiliar codebase or an unfamiliar domain and be productive in days, not weeks. The ability to understand a finance workflow and translate it into software is the single most important skill on this team.