Studio Saelix
Daicho is calm bookkeeping for makers, freelancers, and small studios. Plain language, zero spreadsheets, the math hidden on purpose.
Most makers don't need debits and credits. They need to know: am I okay this month, is the tax handled, and how much can I pay myself.
QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks — they all assume you understand chart-of-accounts, you can interpret a P&L statement, and that filing your VAT return is a routine task. For a freelance designer or a two-person studio, none of that is true.
So makers either pay an accountant they don't fully trust, or they keep everything in a spreadsheet and panic at year-end. Neither is good.
Daicho looks at the same source data — bank transactions, invoices, receipts — but it answers questions a maker actually asks. Am I doing okay? How much can I pay myself? Is tax season handled?
The double-entry ledger is still down there. We just don't make you look at it.
None of these are clever. All of them are things we wished a tool did, and then built when nothing did.
"Hello Émile — March looks healthy." Not a P&L. Not an income statement. The state of your books, told to you in a sentence.
Every revenue transaction silently reserves the right percentage into a tax envelope. You see it set aside, never spent.
One number, calculated honestly: revenue minus expenses minus tax reserve minus next month's float. That's what's safe to take.
Templated, branded, emailed. Reminders go out without you. When clients pay, the transaction matches itself.
Snap a photo. We OCR the line items, suggest a category, attach it to the right card transaction. Five seconds.
A single PDF — bank statements, P&L, receipts indexed. The thing your accountant actually wants. Generated in March.
Financial software earns trust through predictability. We picked the most boring possible technology — then put care into the surface.
Three years of revenue, scattered across two banks and a spreadsheet. We wanted an app that said "you're fine" on a Tuesday and meant it. Nobody had built it. So we did.
Daicho is in private beta with a small cohort of studios and freelancers. We open seats slowly — every account onboarded is one we want to keep.