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Rima AI (formerly Garage)

Document and spreadsheet automation for accountants

Rima helps accountants automate document and spreadsheet work with accuracy and cell-level audit tracking. For accountants that deal with messy docs and spend their time in Excel, Rima enables them to build workflows in natural language to extract and process financial data from PDFs or ERPs into their Excel templates and reconcile their spreadsheets in minutes. Accountants build these workflows once and our agents do the work for them going forward, preserving their institutional memory and know-how.
Active Founders
Gwanygha’a Gana
Gwanygha’a Gana
Co-Founder
Gana in an ex-founder with experience building and investing in companies in the US and Africa. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Data Science from Georgia Tech, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a casual bartender.
Cedric Foudjet
Cedric Foudjet
Founder
Cedric is an ex-founder and Venture Capitalist with experience building and investing in companies in Africa and South East Asia. Cedric is also a self-taught cloud computing engineer with experience helping major fortune 500 companies execute digital transformations and build a new cloud native applications. On his free time he geeks over crypto and watches shows like Billions and Succession. Cedric holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Concordia College and an MBA from Wharton.
Company Launches
Rima: AI agents for document work accountants hate
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Hey everyone👋🏽,

It’s Gana & Cedric from Rima

TL;DR

Over 50% of accountants still receive client documents as email attachments, scans, and paper. They spend hours on formatting, data entry, and Excel wrangling before anything ever touches the ERP. Rima interviews these accountants, understands their edge cases and builds custom document workflows to automate this manual work.

ASK: If you know accounting teams struggling with manual document workflows we’d love to speak with them - founders@getrima.ai

Launch Video

https://youtu.be/e7PJRoFzmjE

Problem

When my mom's small business almost went bankrupt, it wasn't saved by software. It was saved by an accountant who used their brain to rescue the company. But today, these brilliant minds are stuck doing boring, repetitive work.

Over 50% of accountants still get client files as emails, scans, and paper. They waste hours on data entry and broken spreadsheets. Generic AI only gets 55% of the way there because it was never trained on your client's edge cases. That's why accountants say AI is dumb. It's not. It just doesn't have their context yet.

We don't try to out-Claude Claude. We built Rima to solve the last mile: the library of edge cases (customer context) AI was never trained on so accountants can finally unlock its real value

Our Solution

Rima interviews accountants until it understands exactly how they want things done and captures their unique edge cases. Then, it builds a custom workflow to handle that task.

We leverage what LLMs are good at - coding - and pair it with the proprietary library of edge cases that Rima collects across each client to build agentic workflows that are personalized and up to 99.7% accurate.

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Rima learns from each client workflow and grows the library of edge cases over time. The end result is customers feel like Rima gets better and easier to use after every workflow.

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Today, accountants use Rima to automate workflows such as cleanups and catchups, bank and CC recon and data entry for tax workpapers among others.

Rima is best for accounting teams that still receive documents such as invoices, POs, statements and contracts via email attachments, scans or paper

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Our team

We worked closely with over 4000 small businesses while building a wholesale distribution business and our accounting back-office was a mess. We know how messy the data from SMB operations can be and understand the manual work their accountants go through to help these businesses thrive.

Today accounting firms and in-house accounting teams are automating manual document workflows on Rima.

Where we are headed

We’re on a mission to build the deepest edge case library, powering automations everywhere for SMB accounting teams.

Our ASK - How you can help us 📌

→ If you know in-house accounting teams struggling with manual document workflows we’d love to speak with them

learn more @ www.getrima.ai

Previous Launches
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Rima AI (formerly Garage)
Founded:2021
Batch:Summer 2022
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Location:Austin, TX