Intro + Why I built Budgee for marketers & founders

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m David, the founder of Budgee (www.trybudgee.com).

I started Budgee because I saw a recurring painful pattern in lean startups and scaleups. As a marketer in a high-growth environment, you are hired to deliver results, drive leads, and build the brand. But in reality, you end up spending hours every week wrestling with static spreadsheets, chasing down invoices, and trying to reconcile your "Plan" with what Finance sees in QuickBooks or Xero.

It’s a massive distraction.

I built Budgee to solve the a typical marketer's Dilemma at lean companies:

1. The Time Drain: You need to focus on campaign optimization, not data entry admin.

2. The Spending Anxiety: You live in constant fear of overspending (and getting heat from the CFO) or underspending (and missing your growth targets because you didn't know the funds were available).

Budgee bridges that gap. It gives you a workspace that connects your creative strategy directly to your financial actuals in real-time. It handles the admin so you can get back to marketing.

The Bigger Picture While I’m laser-focused on solving this for Marketing first (because that’s where the spend is most volatile), my long-term vision is bigger.

I'm currently dog fooding Budgee and using it to budget everything from marketing to development costs. So i'm sure that all founders here would have some use for it.

If you would like free access for 6 months in exchange for feedback, please let me know.

Every department head, whether in Engineering, HR, or Ops deserves this level of clarity. If you manage a budget, you shouldn't need an accounting degree to know where you stand.

I’d love to hear from other founders and marketers here. How are you currently tracking your "Plan vs. Actuals"?

Excited to be part of this community! 🚀