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CentSight vs. Pilot

Pilot Does the Books. CentSight Explains What They Mean.

Pilot is a bookkeeping service for startups. CentSight is an intelligence layer for decision-making. They're in completely different categories — and they work great together.

Side-by-Side

FeatureCentSightPilot
Monthly costUnder $500/mo$600–$3,500/mo
Transaction categorization
Monthly close & bookkeeping
Tax-ready financials
Dedicated bookkeeper
AI-powered financial insights
Real-time cash intelligence
Burn rate & runway tracking
Anomaly detection & alerts
Plain English financial Q&A
Cash flow forecasting
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Different Jobs, Same Goal

Pilot is a bookkeeping service designed for startups and growing businesses. They assign you a dedicated bookkeeper who categorizes your transactions, reconciles your accounts, closes your books monthly, and delivers tax-ready financials. It's a human-powered service with software underneath.

CentSight is something different entirely. It's an AI intelligence layer that connects to your financial data and tells you what it means. It tracks your burn rate, predicts your runway, spots anomalies, and answers your financial questions in plain English.

Pilot records the data. CentSight reads the data. You need someone to do each job.

Why Startups Need Both

If you're a venture-backed startup, you already know the two things investors always ask about: your books and your metrics. Pilot keeps the books clean. CentSight keeps the metrics current.

Without CentSight, you're waiting for Pilot's monthly close to understand your financial position. With CentSight, you have real-time visibility into burn rate, runway, cash flow trends, and spending patterns — every single day.

  • “Our burn rate increased 22% this month. Here's why.”
  • “At current spend, runway is 8.5 months. Last month it was 10.”
  • “AWS costs spiked 40% week-over-week. Want to investigate?”

That's the kind of intelligence that helps founders make better decisions between board meetings — not just during them.

Check Out the Full Toolkit

CentSight connects directly to your accounting software and bank accounts via our integrations. Whether your Pilot bookkeeper uses QuickBooks or another platform, CentSight layers intelligence on top of whatever system you're already using.

“We use Pilot for bookkeeping and CentSight for intelligence. Pilot gives us clean books. CentSight gives us the runway and burn rate dashboards our investors actually care about. Together, they're our entire finance stack.”

Alex M.

CTO & Co-founder, Series A startup

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