Reduced financial closing time through process automation
Rapid integration, regardless of the ERP or customer data structure
Standardization of accounting workflows and accelerated customer onboarding
Scalable infrastructure, allowing Stacks to support its growth
Natural evolution toward AI agents thanks to Google Cloud's advanced technologies
Stacks used Google Cloud to develop an AI-powered accounting automation platform that shortens monthly closing times and enables finance departments to improve operational reliability.
Existing closing solutions are often designed for large companies, with deployment cycles that can take seven months to two and a half years. We offer a more modern, agile, and intelligent alternative through a cloud-native platform enhanced by generative AI.
Ivan Bovyrin
Founding Engineer, Stacks
Founded in April 2024, Stacks is an Amsterdam-based company developing an accounting automation platform based on artificial intelligence. Its mission is to reduce the time spent on repetitive monthly closing tasks, allowing finance teams to focus on analysis and decision-making.
The platform developed by the company automatically processes bank reconciliations, journal entries, variance analysis, and report generation. Fully integrated with major enterprise management systems, it aims to alleviate the operational burden while improving the efficiency and responsiveness of the accounting function through AI-powered process automation.
Each month, finance departments must collect, sort, reconcile, and consolidate thousands of transactions to complete their monthly close. These processes, still largely manual, consume significant resources, and the human execution of these repetitive tasks increases the risk of errors. "Existing closing solutions are often designed for large companies, with deployment cycles that can take seven months to two and a half years," adds Ivan Bovyrin, Founding Engineer of Stacks. "We offer a more modern, agile, and intelligent alternative through a cloud-native platform enhanced by generative AI."
Coming from companies like Uber, Plaid, and Mollie, the founders of Stacks are applying the principles that have revolutionized other sectors to accounting: ease of use, speed of deployment, and native scalability. "Traditional accounting solutions often suffer from a lack of ergonomics and technical complexity. We designed our platform as a product that companies can truly adopt, evolve, and enjoy using," he continues.
Supported by a €10 million funding round, Stacks relied on Google Cloud from the outset to develop its platform. This partnership, initiated through the Google for Startups Cloud program, proved crucial in providing the company with the ability to innovate quickly and scale without the constraints it needed to grow.
"Google Cloud offers exactly everything an ambitious young company needs: a scalable infrastructure, cutting-edge AI tools, and above all, the freedom to experiment without getting lost in technical complexity," emphasizes Ivan Bovyrin.
Stacks' platform leverages managed services such as Cloud SQL, Spanner, and GKE Autopilot, which allow teams to focus on creating value rather than configuring and maintaining the underlying infrastructure.
Google Cloud offers exactly everything an ambitious young company needs: a scalable infrastructure, cutting-edge AI tools, and above all, the freedom to experiment without getting lost in technical complexity.
Ivan Bovyrin
Founding Engineer, Stacks
With around ten customers today, Stacks aims to scale their product to hundreds in the nearest future. "It would be impossible to envision such a trajectory with a traditional infrastructure. Thanks to Google Cloud, we benefit from natural elasticity and automated scaling, which allows us to grow easily," he explains.
Beyond the technology, it was also the quality of support that convinced Stacks to adopt Google Cloud. "Our team has never been treated as a 'small customer' but as a true innovation partner," insists Ivan Bovyrin. "Whenever we encountered a difficulty, whether it was adjusting quotas or technical issues, we could always count on a quick and effective response."
Through the Google for Startups Cloud program, Stacks also benefited from direct access to the resources needed to integrate the latest AI innovations, optimize its infrastructure as it grows, and strengthen the security of its platform.
Our goal is clear: to make the financial close an almost instantaneous process, as simple as clicking a button.
Ivan Bovyrin
Founding Engineer, Stacks
If Stacks was able to deliver a first version of its platform in just a few months, it is primarily due to the intensive use of Google Cloud's managed services but also to the progressive integration of AI into its development tools: approximately 10 to 15% of the production code is now generated by Gemini Code Assist, which has allowed the team to save valuable time.
AI also plays a central role in the platform itself. It is directly integrated into the business modules to automate certain critical tasks of the financial close, such as bank reconciliation: leveraging Vertex AI and Gemini, Stacks is able to interpret bank statements, regardless of their structure, and automatically extract relevant information to feed accounting workflows.
These AI-powered features significantly reduce manual processing and standardize operations that previously often required specific developments. "AI helps us industrialize tasks that were previously very context-dependent. This allows us to onboard new customers faster, regardless of their data formats or ERP environment, and offer them standardized automated workflows without having to develop specific integrations for each case," emphasizes Ivan Bovyrin.
Today, Stacks continues to enhance its platform while expanding its customer base. The next step is to develop workflows fully driven by AI. This new approach is part of the rise of agents, systems capable of chaining multiple actions autonomously based on a defined objective.
At Stacks, the ambition is to entrust certain well-defined accounting sequences to these agents, based on the company's internal rules and the history of previous processing. AI no longer intervenes only at the task level but across an entire process, from initiation to validation. "We are seeing the emergence of use cases where human intervention can be reduced to zero, provided we have enough context and a quality history," explains Ivan Bovyrin. "The end-of-month reconciliation, for example, often follows identical rules from one month to the next. This type of task can be entrusted to an AI agent that knows when to launch the process, what data to process, and how to validate it. Our goal is clear: to make the financial close an almost instantaneous process, as simple as clicking a button."
Thanks to artificial intelligence, a resilient and scalable infrastructure, and a sustained pace of innovation, the young company intends to transform a historically cumbersome and time-consuming function into a lever for agile and automated management. An ambitious bet — but already well underway.
Founded in 2024 in Amsterdam, Stacks is an innovative company specializing in accounting automation. Its AI-powered platform enables finance departments to shorten their monthly closing times by reducing manual tasks and improving the accuracy of their financial reports. In 2025, the company raised €10 million to support its growth.
Industries: IT, Finance
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Products: Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot (GKE Autopilot), Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Security Command Center (SCC), Vertex AI, Gemini models