# Finfuego spends 60% less time doing expenses on Brex and Puzzle Learn how Finfuego cuts time spent on bookkeeping and expense management by over 50%. **URL Source:** https://www.brex.com/resources/customer/finfuego --- ![Finfuego hero](https://brand.brex.com/transform/ec595330-55e3-442d-9121-7926be81ec3e/Finfuego-hero) # Finfuego spends 60% less time doing expenses on Brex and Puzzle ![Finfuego stats desktop](https://brand.brex.com/transform/036ac14f-a238-473a-a2f1-bea73a67169c/Finfuego-stats-desktop) ### About Finfuego Empowering businesses with AI-powered financial expertise [Finfuego](https://www.finfuego.com/) is an early stage startup that makes executive-level financial knowledge accessible with an AI-powered CFO agent. Based in the US, their team is helping founders like their own make sense of complex financial data and guide faster, smarter decision making with their cash, forecasting, spend, and more. ### Challenges Manual expense tracking and unscalable bookkeeping Finfuego’s initial setup ran all of their spend through separate banks and spreadsheet workflows. Expenses lived in statements and unsynced files. It worked at a very small scale, but was time consuming and fragile. “All of our cash flowed through Bank of America, and I manually tracked expenses on Excel. It was incredibly labor-intensive,” shared Bekah Fields, Operations Engineer at Finfuego. Once more employees came on board, the team wanted purchasing cards with spend controls that they could set proactively and employee cards for day-to-day purchases. Bekah’s team also needed a clearer view of cash and expenses across accounts, and a way to leverage AI-native solutions to cut down the hours spent inside spreadsheets. ### Solution Automated accounting with Brex and Puzzle in one click Finfuego adopted Brex to manage their spend across all company and employee purchases with AI-native solution. With [Brex corporate cards](https://www.brex.com/product/credit-card), spend controls are automatically enforced at the point of swipe instead of reviewed after it appears on a statement. Deployment was effortless, according to Bekah: “Brex made it incredibly easy to assign p-cards and employee cards, giving us instant visibility to track all authorized expenses.” Finfuego also leveraged [Brex and Puzzle’s one-click integration](https://www.brex.com/one-click-accounting) to get their accounting workflows set up fast. With one click – literally – she authenticated, connected the accounts, and saw expenses start flowing between Brex and [Puzzle](https://puzzle.io/) instantly. After attempting a lengthy implementation with another accounting software provider, the Brex + Puzzle integration was a relief. “With the seamless integration with Brex, Puzzle was deployed much faster, and proved to be a much better fit." On Brex, expenses are now centralized in one place, GL-coded, and synced to Puzzle automatically with real time updates. Without a dedicated accountant or function to manage the program, this the key unlock for Bekah’s team. “Connecting Brex and Puzzle was so fast, I barely remember doing it – everything was automatically synced and ready,” she shared. “It fit right into our company’s values of being as lean as possible from the start, automating things wherever we can.” “Connecting Brex and Puzzle was so fast, I barely remember doing it – everything was automatically synced and ready.” _— Bekah Fields, Operations Engineer at Finfuego_ ### Impact Time spent on expenses cut in half, upgraded financial visibility With Brex's [intelligent finance](https://www.brex.com/platform/intelligent-finance) platform and Puzzle's accounting software working together, Finfuego turned what used to be a manual chore of spend tracking and accounting into a lean, automated system. Put together, Bekah saves more than four hours every week on all bookkeeping tasks, reducing her time spent on expense management by 60% – a huge upgrade from the manual, statement-based reporting previously handled in Excel. Moreover, Bekah now has a clear, holistic view of Finfuego’s spend at any given moment. “Now, we’re able to see what our biggest expenses are each month immediately — it gives me peace of mind that even small, non-categorized transactions are accounted for and looked right,” said Bekah. “I always know our books are up to date.” In Puzzle, Bekah can click into her updated books and assess how much true buffer exists. “Puzzle keeps us honest about our realistic runway. It shows what we actually have to spend, not just what we expect to raise. If the buffer starts to look thin, I see it right away.” Bekah’s time is now focused on reviewing and finalizing the books instead of wrestling with CSVs, PDF bank statements, or rebuilding reports. “Brex and Puzzle’s one-click integration has taken a big load off our backs and frees us up to do more important work,” Bekah shared. “It was so helpful – I would recommend it to any founder.” ## Related Articles ### [Medicinal Genomics case study](https://www.brex.com/resources/customer/medicinal-genomics) See how Medicinal Genomics boosts efficiency, compliance, and the bottom line with Brex. ### [WindBorne Systems case study](https://www.brex.com/resources/customer/windborne-systems) See how WindBorne Systems uses Brex to power Atlas, a global network of weather balloons, all while saving 200 hours a year on expense reports. ### [Phase genomics case study](https://www.brex.com/resources/customer/phase-genomics) See how Brex helps Phase Genomics save real time and money on travel and expense management. ### [Prestige Healthcare Management case study](https://www.brex.com/resources/customer/prestige-healthcare-management) See how Prestige Healthcare doubled their credit limit and got payment terms designed for the cash-flow timing of healthcare with Brex. ### [ONEflight International case study](https://www.brex.com/resources/customer/oneflight-international) See how ONEflight International saves 4 hours a day, and eliminates $27K in wire fees a month, with Brex's automated bill pay platform. ### [📋 B2B payments](https://www.brex.com/resources/future-of-b2b-payments-register) More companies are moving away from checks and ACH transfers to pay their vendors. 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