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Latch.ai
Automate complex accounting work without a single prompt
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Automate complex accounting work without a single prompt
325 followers
Latch is built for accountants buried in click-heavy close work. Instead of writing prompts, you do a task on screen and talk it through, including the parts no SOP captures: the three-day matching window, the rate you always override. Latch asks about the exceptions, then builds a sidekick that runs the task the same way every time, right in the tools you already use. When something doesn't fit, it stops and asks you. Every step is logged for review.
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training it by just doing the task on screen is so cool. congrats team!
@mohitvishwakarma Thanks Mohit! There’s a fun story behind it. When we built our very first sidekick, long before the pipeline we use today, the biggest time sink was gathering requirements: getting someone to walk us through every step and exception. So we built a tool to do that part, and it turned out to do it better than we did. A lot of Latch’s experience is modeled on what it’s like to walk a coworker through your work.
What’s the first task you’d want to teach it?
I hate prompting my workflow… this is brilliant!!
@caitlin4 Thanks for the support, Caitlin!
Hey PH community 👋
Excited to bring Latch to the global startup audience via this launch :)
Big fan of the team @stefankalb and @sam_voahbst and how much they care about this problem space.
Latch turns the repetitive clicking work behind month end close into "sidekicks". You just do the task once while narrating, and Latch captures your voice, your screen and your clicks, then builds a sidekick that runs those same steps every time. You don't have to waste time in becoming a prompt engineer or tweak a coding agent.
What stood out for me is how it handles the gray areas.
When a sidekick hits an exception or a judgment call, it stops and asks you instead of guessing, so your team stays in control of every decision.
They started with accounting teams, and the free plan needs no credit card.
Try it at latch.ai
Give it a spin and let the team know which recurring task you'd hand over first 🚀
Really like the point about all the little exceptions that make automation difficult. That's something many teams can relate to. Great work, Stefan, and congrats on the launch! 👏
I recently saw a prerelease end-to-end demonstration of the workstream capture and playback functionality of Latch. Super slick and really intuitive! This platform will be such a boost for folks who have complicated, repeating parts of their jobs.
looks really cool, congrats!!
@louislecat thanks for the support!
Congrats on the launch! Stopping to ask instead of guessing is the right call for close work. Curious how a sidekick handles the underlying tool changing, e.g. Xero renaming a field or moving a step mid-quarter. Does the capture need to be redone, or does it notice the drift and flag it?
@dhruv_mehrotra1 Thanks! Good question, and it comes up a lot with close work. For tools like Xero, sidekicks connect through an integration rather than clicking through the screen, so a moved button or a redesigned page usually doesn’t affect them. If something the sidekick depends on actually changes, like a renamed field or data that no longer matches what it learned, it notices, stops, and tells you in plain language what’s different instead of guessing.
You don’t need to redo the capture. You give the sidekick guidance on the change, and it rebuilds to handle it from that run on. Have you been bitten by a mid-quarter change like that before?