birthday season at monk hq for Fabio!

Ask any CFO what they'd automate and you'll hear the same answer. AP spend minted the unicorns of the last decade (@billcom, @tryramp, @brexHQ). The next wave flips the script: manual AR is dead, and invoice-to-cash is the new frontier. We're betting on the teams who automate it first. Follow along as this series unfolds from the frontlines.

businesses with 100s or 1000s of invoices have a problem invoices sit in excel in separate rows its painful to translate these invoices accurately into PDFs we can send to customers @francescocoacci and engineering team at @usemonk are solving this problem

we're building the best AR automation platform with the most talent-dense team in the space. we're hiring for every role in this photo. hit us up if you want to build a category winner. link to apply in our profile.

Linh joins us at @usemonk full-time! Linh is from Vietnam and studied CS at @ColbyCollege. She interned at @Rippling last summer and enjoys singing, traveling, and studying Mandarin in her free time. First PR went up on day 1. And in the last 2 weeks Linh had a large impact, shipping - multiple upgrades to portal automation workflows - new tags for conversation escalations (customers asked) - a unique integration for a customer - improved our AR aging report Linh has been interested in early stage start-ups because she cares about building things with maximum ownership. Linh has been working closely with @Oatmeeel , Brodie, @francescocoacci and @zhou_squared during onboarding and is now ripping on her own. And what's been most impressive to me is Linh's ability to figure out when to go fast vs. which systems require more careful planning. Welcome to the team, Linh!

The first Vertical AI Summit was a huge success! Thanks again to @tryramp for hosting, and to our co-host @GreylockVC for helping us put this together The summit featured: - @eglyman talking about why the ecosystem around a breakthrough captures more value than its creators. His analogy - AC didn't enrich the AC makers, it built Vegas, Miami, Singapore. As intelligence gets cheap, the opening is every vertical business that only now becomes possible to build. - @packyM @geoffintech talking about how Ramp, a 1,600-person company, moves like a startup and got fully "AI-pilled" - @nbobba, @mitch_troy and @thejamescad on building differentiation durability while the foundation models keep getting better - @GeorgeKurdin showing how @usemonk balances time to value without sacrificing defensibility - @itaidamti showing how @unit_co_ helps AI agents connect with financial rails - @SethGRosenberg, @Maxtbrenner, @rahulrekhi, and @will_lawrenceTO talking about earning trust in regulated relationship driven industries - Me, @davidneckstein & @vxanand talking about economics of AI native companies We will be sharing more learnings from the sessions in the coming days weeks and doing lots more here. Very excited to watch NYC continue to cement itself as the center of gravity for vertical AI!

$10T is locked up in unpaid invoices around the world every year. This $10T problem is why we exist. Excited for Jacob Tamkin our growth team to capture what finance leaders across Europe are dealing with. Follow the Monk page for every episode of our new series: Ask a CFO.

another good day for businesses who want to be smart about revenue Fabio joins @usemonk engineering team Fabio got started as an engineer building video games, which led him building a business before he graduated (nextstep.ai) before @usemonk , Fabio played basketball professionally and worked at @Microsoft Research in his first 2 weeks, Fabio - shipped a customer upgrade to specific customer - shipped an in-app release highlights feed so customers see what's new on the platform - fixed a mapping issue Fabio is joining other founders and ex-athletes on the team (Kendall, @francescocoacci , and Brodie) welcome Fabio!

💵 Accounts receivable is the most overlooked problem in business finance. Monk is fixing that. Joe Zhu, Co-Founder and CTO of @usemonk, shares how he and his team are using AI to automate the collections process that most finance teams dread. techstartupnetwork.co/podcas…

Just shipped a major upgrade in beta: 13-week cash forecasting on Monk 🚀 Most teams spend a quarter rebuilding the last one. Monk turns every invoice into a live view of your cash, what's owed, at risk, and landing next, now projected further out, 13 weeks.

We're obsessed with helping you get paid fast. We wrapped up the Gartner conference last weekend and had over 100 conversations with finance leaders who are actively rethinking how they run AR. The pattern we kept hearing: solutions take months to implement and still aren't AI-native. Monk goes live in days, not months. White-glove onboarding and 7-day support. AI-native from day one. Julia, our agent, drives 24% faster responses than standard dunning. $1B in AR already under management.  Next stop, London for Tech Week and Stripe Tour 2026. If you'll be there, reach out.