We don't want your job. We want your worst hours.
Datashaker takes the data entry out of your firm, gives you your clients' numbers as of today, and a dashboard to work on them. It costs the firm nothing.
Let's get the question out of the way.
«If the data entry disappears, what do I bill?»
It's the first thing every firm owner thinks, and it's right to think it.
Bookkeeping hours are your worst-paid hours: the ones clients accept grudgingly and always haggle over. Analysis and advice are the best-paid, and they're the ones clients ask you for and you almost never have time to give.
Datashaker doesn't take hours away. It moves them from the first kind to the second.
It holds on one condition: that the firm doesn't bill by the hour alone. If the model is fixed-fee or subscription, the time freed becomes your margin. If it's hourly, automation has to come with a change of pricing — a conversation we're glad to have before selling you anything.
Four things that change on Monday morning.
You stop chasing.
Datashaker collects supporting documents straight from the client — mail, scanner, WhatsApp — and movements from the bank via CAMT or EBICS. The reminder is sent by the system, not by your assistant.
The cost of running a mandate goes down.
The time that today goes into collecting, sorting and matching is time nobody pays for willingly. That disappears.
Same headcount, more mandates.
A firm's bottleneck isn't finding clients: it's finding people to look after them. If each mandate costs fewer hours, the team you already have is enough for more work.
Year-end stops being a spike.
Data comes in all year round, not all at once in March. Fewer late nights, fewer mistakes made in a hurry.
The dashboard is yours, and you don't pay for it.
For each client you decide which indicators actually matter: margin per job, staff cost ratio, receivables turnover, whatever their sector calls for. The dashboard calculates them on real data, not on a year-end estimate.
And you see them across the whole portfolio: at a glance you know which mandates are in order, which aren't, and who's worth a phone call this week.
It's cost accounting without the work of cost accounting.
The dashboard carries the Datashaker name. For the firm it's free, with no cap on mandates. Datashaker is subscribed by the client, who pays for their own tool: the firm fronts nothing, resells nothing, manages no licences.
The right advice, given in time.
Today you look at a client's numbers when the quarterly is ready, or worse once the year is closed. By then what you're looking at has already happened: you can comment on it, you can't change it.
With documents and movements coming in every day, a client's numbers are this morning's. A margin thinning out is something you see in June, not in February of the following year.
A fiduciary with ten mandates on Datashaker doesn't have ten sets of books to keep. They have ten legible businesses, comparable with each other, where you can spot early what the naked eye only sees at year-end.
It's the difference between a fiduciary who certifies the past and a fiduciary who gets called before the decision.
From obligatory supplier to the person they call first.
Accounting is a legal obligation: the client pays for it because they have to. It's a relationship neither side chose.
Advice is another matter: the client pays for it because they need it, and pays better. But giving it takes two things firms almost never have — up-to-date data and time to look at it.
Datashaker takes care of getting you both.
We don't keep books and we don't give advice: we don't post in your place, we don't close balance sheets, we don't produce returns, and we don't interpret the numbers for your client. That's your craft and it stays yours.
The gain isn't one-sided. The client has real numbers when they need them, you sell the work you're best at.
For firms that believe in it, there's a dedicated arrangement.
We run a partner programme for fiduciaries bringing several mandates: reserved terms, a direct line to our team, and a say in the features we build.
It isn't something for an online form. If it makes sense for your firm, let's talk in person.
Let's try it on a single mandate.
Pick one client, just one, of the sort that costs you the most time in collection. We'll put them on Datashaker and talk again in a month, numbers in hand.
Thirty minutes, with one of your real cases in front of us.