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Built by someone who lived the last mile
Every month, the numbers were done long before the pack was. The accounting was the easy part.
The part that never got faster
The two or three days after close, copying last month's workbook, re-pointing the cells, rebuilding the same variance columns, and hoping nothing broke: that was the part that never got faster, no matter how many times I did it.
It was never the accounting. The accounting was finished. What was left was assembly, and assembly is the work nobody schedules and everybody does at night.
It is structural, not personal
I built ClosePack because that problem does not belong to one team. Every finance team hits the same wall between the ledger and the boardroom. The numbers are ready. Turning them into something you can hand to a board, a client, or a funder still means rebuilding it by hand, every single period.
The systems on either side of that wall are good at their jobs. Nothing was built for the gap between them.
So the gap became a person with a spreadsheet.
The same short list, every time
Whatever the entity and whatever the system, it comes down to the same handful of problems:
- Roll-forwards that break the moment the template changes
- Variance analysis that takes hours to build and a minute to read
- Unmapped accounts that quietly throw a statement off
- A board pack assembled from a dozen different files
- Commentary that lives in an email thread instead of the pack itself
ClosePack exists to close that list, one saved view at a time. We build it deliberately, and we only ship what is real.
Set up once, then reused
You map your accounts into the statements you actually present a single time. After that, a new month is a new export and a date change. The columns, the subtotals, the page layout and the commentary are already there, because they are saved against the view rather than rebuilt around it.
At the end of it you have something you can send: a PDF, an Excel workbook, or a working model with your numbers in live formulas.
What it deliberately does not do
ClosePack does not touch your books. It sits on top of whatever system holds them, QuickBooks, NetSuite, anything with an export, and it starts from the transaction list that system already gives you.
You keep your ledger, your close process and the people who sign off on it exactly where they are. It is the part that comes after, which is the part that runs late.
Matt Brattin
Founder of ClosePack, and the person who reads your access request.