A double-entry general ledger built like a payments system. Every journal, every reconciliation, every audit trail — versioned, observable, and reconciled to the cent.
Closing books with Beacon
01 / PLATFORM
Beacon was built by ex-CFOs and payments engineers who got tired of monthly reconciliations done in spreadsheets. Every primitive — accounts, journals, periods, dimensions — is designed for high-volume, multi-entity finance.
Every event posts as a balanced journal. Subledgers reconcile against the GL on the same wall clock, not on a nightly batch.
Lock periods on the first business day with confidence. Variance checks, flux analyses, and reconciliations run continuously instead of at month end.
Roll up subsidiaries, eliminate intercompany, and translate currencies in a single posting graph. No CSV gymnastics.
Every line item is content-addressed and signed. Auditors get a self-serve, read-only view scoped to the period under review.
Schedules generated from contracts, not from spreadsheets. Deferred revenue, contract assets, and SSP allocations are first-class.
Bills, expenses, and reimbursements flow into accruals automatically. Approvals route by policy, not by lookup table.
02 / DEVELOPERS
Beacon ships an HTTP API that mirrors how a controller actually thinks. Every journal is idempotent, version-pinned, and observable. Our SDKs cover Python, Ruby, TypeScript, and Go.
03 / OPERATIONAL TRUTH
Customer · Atlas Robotics, Series C
We used to spend the first ten days of every month tying out subledgers in a shared spreadsheet that nobody really trusted. Beacon made the close honest. The first time we hit a hard close on day three, our auditor asked what we'd changed. We told them — we changed the system.
04 / PRICING
One platform fee covers the GL, close, and consolidation. Volume-based pricing keeps you honest about what you're using; no per-seat penalty for letting your auditors in.
Engineering teams in pre-revenue and early production.
Series A → C finance teams running a real close.
Public-company-ready accounting at scale.
All plans include hashed audit trails, SSO via Okta/Google, US + EU data residency, and direct API access. Volume above plan limits billed at $0.0008 / journal line.