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ProblemModelWhat we buildHow It WorksPricing
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Your Head of Finance spends 70% of their time on work that's below their pay grade70% of finance time is below pay grade

We give your finance team the capacity of 3 extra hires. One embedded operator, accelerated by an AI engineering team from day one.

No 6-month hiring process. No recruitment fees. No training someone for 3 months only to watch them leave. The operator handles your AP, reconciliation, month-end close, and the in-between work that no software handles. Contributing from day one. Cancel in 30 days.

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The pattern

It's not a hiring problem.
It's a scaling bottleneck.

Whether you're PE-backed, post-Series B, expanding internationally, or a family business professionalizing — the pattern is the same. The work grows, the team doesn't, and the people who should be building processes are buried in transactions.

The team cannot carry the future organizational and operational requirements anymore.

CFO · multi-entity group (CH / DE / US)

Senior staff stuck in ops

Your Head of Finance should be designing processes. Instead: AP, reconciliations, close prep. Every day.

The profile that doesn’t exist

Accounting + process thinking + automation mindset. Growing companies budget €80–100k for this profile. Zero candidates.

Knowledge walks out the door

Two accountants near retirement. When they leave, the processes leave with them. Nothing is documented.

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of senior finance time on operational tasks, not structure
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what growing companies budget for a hybrid profile that doesn’t exist
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to close a senior finance hire — if you can find one
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cost savings vs. hiring locally for the same capacity
The model

Two roles. One compounding system.

The profile you need — accounting + process thinking + automation — doesn't exist as a single hire. We deliver it as a system.

Finance Operator

Inside your ERP, every day

  • Works in your ERP, inboxes, spreadsheets, and meetings
  • Handles AP, AR, reconciliation, close tasks
  • Speaks accounting — multi-entity, VAT, intercompany
  • Surfaces every friction point worth automating

Your team member. Your systems. Your meetings.

AI Engineering Team

Building intelligence around the work

  • Builds automations around what the operator finds — from focused tools to AI agents to end-to-end workflows
  • Connects systems that don’t talk to each other
  • Shared skill library — improvements compound across every client

The technical layer your finance team never had.

Preparation work — yes

Drafts, matching, data entry, reconciliation prep. The heavy lifting.

Decision authority — no

Approvals, sign-offs, financial responsibility stay with your leadership.

Embedded — not outsourced

Same tools, same data, same meetings. Not a black box.

The intelligence layer

Built around your environment

Each automation is shaped by what the operator finds in your environment. Each is useful on its own. Together, they compound.

Operator embeds → friction surfaces → automation built around the work → automations compose → finance function compounds

Invoice extraction

Reads PDFs into structured data. Built around your vendors and chart of accounts. No typing, no format assumptions.

Email-to-data

A vendor sends a contract change buried in an email thread. Information extracted, structured, dropped in the right place.

AP processing

Invoice inbox to payment run prep, handled end-to-end. Your team reviews — doesn’t process.

Cash visibility

Forward picture from bank feeds, commitments, payables, and pipeline. Always current — never compiled the night before the board call.

Close coordination

An AI agent watches close status across entities and people. Knows what’s blocked, what’s late, what’s missing. Surfaces it before it becomes a deadline problem.

Institutional memory

How your finance function actually works — the routes, the workarounds, the relationships — captured as the operator does the work. Doesn’t leave when people do.

How it works

Start manual.
Automate what proves stable.

No big system on day one. Small tools — each solves one friction. Then they connect.

01

Embed

Operator joins your environment. Maps actual processes across systems, inboxes, and meetings. Identifies quick wins and pain points.

02

First tools

Email triage, vendor lookup, status watchers. Small helpers the operator uses alongside manual work. Saves minutes each day.

03

Deeper tools

Invoice extraction, GL coding, payment prep, spreadsheets that fill themselves. Operator is noticeably faster.

04

Tools composing

Tools start composing into bigger capabilities. Invoice email → extracted → coded → drafted in system. Operator reviews instead of entering.

05

AI agents and workflows

Tools wired into autonomous AI agents and workflows. AP inbox agent, cash matching, dunning, close coordination running end-to-end.

06

Compounding

Same cost. Expanding capacity. Every cycle smarter. Improvements from every other client flow in automatically.

Our approach

Ground-up, not top-down.

Top-Down

  • 6-month assessment
  • 100-page roadmap
  • Big-bang ERP project
  • Change management programme
  • Results in 18 months (maybe)

Ground-Up

  • Start with one process
  • Operator learns the reality
  • Build tools around what works
  • Expand to next process
  • Results compound from week 1
Phase 1

Embed & Learn

Operator joins your environment. Maps actual processes across systems and entities.

Phase 2

First Tools

Invoice extraction, payment run prep, reconciliation matching. Measurable time savings from week one.

Phase 3

Proactive System

Problems caught early — not at month-end. Operator focuses on decisions, AI agents handle monitoring.

Phase 4

Full Coverage

P2P, O2C, month-end, consolidation prep — workflows running end-to-end across the function.

Client voices

What finance leaders say

Fits perfectly. It’s not a hiring problem — it’s a scaling bottleneck. We need one structured capacity, not more headcount.

CFO, multi-entity group (CH/DE/US)

Every Project Y talent we’ve hired has demonstrated outstanding progress, and their ongoing support model ensures strong retention. We now actively recommend Project Y to all our ventures.

Louise Buys, Founder, The Delta

Hiring was seamless — no recruiting fees, plus they handle payroll, office space, and devices. Beyond great talent, we truly appreciate Project Y’s commitment to social impact.

Christoph Jung, COO, Playbook

FAQ

Common questions

Pricing

Simple pricing. No surprises.

Embedded Finance Operator
From
€3,500/month

All-in. EOR, compliance, AI engineering included.

  • EOR & compliance included
  • Payroll & contracts handled
  • AI-augmented workflows
  • Equipment provided if needed
  • Dedicated AI engineering support
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