Built by accountants who got tired of spreadsheets

We started IgniteFluxIs in early 2023 after spending too many late nights reconciling expense reports manually. There had to be a better way.

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The receipts that changed everything

Linh was processing expense reports for a manufacturing company in Hai Phong. Every month, she'd get a shoebox full of crumpled receipts. Some in English, some in Vietnamese, most barely readable. She'd spend three days just sorting them.

One night in January 2023, around 11pm, she took a photo of the mess and texted it to her old university friend Dao. "There has to be software for this." Dao, who'd been working in fintech, replied immediately: "If there is, I haven't found it. Want to build it?"

That conversation became IgniteFluxIs. We spent the first six months just talking to finance teams across Vietnam, understanding what actually happens when someone submits an expense claim.

Early workspace where IgniteFluxIs was founded with documents and planning materials

What matters to us

These aren't corporate values we put on a wall. They're things we actually argue about in meetings and use to make decisions when nobody's watching.

Real problems only

We don't build features because they sound cool. Every function in our software exists because someone told us about a specific pain point. If we can't name the person who needs it, we don't build it.

Test with actual data

Our beta version processes receipts from real Vietnamese businesses. Street food stalls in Hanoi, textile exporters in Ho Chi Minh, coffee shops in Da Nang. If it works in those contexts, it'll work anywhere.

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Speed matters

Finance teams work under deadlines. Month-end close waits for nobody. Our software processes a standard expense report in under 90 seconds. We measure this every week and get annoyed when it goes over two minutes.

Support people who support us

When clients email us at 8pm because they're stuck on something, we reply. Not with a ticket number. With an actual answer. Sometimes Dao calls them directly. It's just how we work.

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Fix it properly

Bugs happen. When they do, we don't just patch them. We figure out why the bug existed in the first place and fix that underlying issue. Takes longer, but problems stay solved.

Learn constantly

Vietnamese tax regulations change. Accounting practices evolve. We spend about four hours every week just reading updates and talking to accountants about what's new. Our software gets better because we stay current.

The team building this

We're small on purpose. Six people total. Everyone writes code, talks to clients, and occasionally argues about whether a button should be purple or slightly different purple.

Kael Thornwick

Co-founder, Lead Developer

Former backend engineer at a banking platform. Got into expense management after manually processing his own business trip receipts and thinking "this is ridiculous." Codes mostly at night, drinks too much coffee.

Dragan Vesely

Co-founder, Product Lead

Spent seven years in accounting before switching to product design. Knows exactly why finance teams hate most software. Talks to clients every Tuesday afternoon without fail. Still does bookkeeping for two small businesses just to stay sharp.

We went from three days of expense processing to about four hours. I was skeptical at first because every software promises to save time. But this actually did. The team responds to questions in Vietnamese, which helps. And when we had an issue with receipt scanning in February, they fixed it within a week. Not just for us, for everyone.

Finance Manager

Technology Company, Hanoi

IgniteFluxIs development team collaborating on expense automation software

Real expense management workflow being optimized with IgniteFluxIs platform

Building something that actually helps

We're not trying to replace accountants. We're trying to give them back their time so they can do the work that actually requires human judgment.

Our software handles the repetitive parts: scanning receipts, categorizing expenses, checking for policy violations, generating reports. The parts where pattern recognition works well and computers don't get bored.

Finance professionals can then focus on analysis, forecasting, strategy, and the dozens of judgment calls that come up every week. The stuff that actually matters.

We're adding features based on direct feedback from teams using the platform daily. No roadmap carved in stone. Just constant small improvements based on real usage patterns.

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