{"id":101608,"title":"Rima: AI agents for document work accountants hate","tagline":"Rima interviews accountants, captures their edge cases, and automates the manual work","body":"Hey everyone👋🏽,\n\nIt’s [Gana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ggana/) \u0026amp; [Cedric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric-foudjet-0470064b/) from [Rima ](https://www.getrima.ai/)\n\n**TL;DR** \n\nOver 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. \n\n**ASK**: If you know accounting teams struggling with manual document workflows we’d love to speak with them - [founders@getrima.ai](mailto:founders@getrima.ai) \n\n**Launch Video** \n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/e7PJRoFzmjE\u003e \n\n**_Problem_**\n\nWhen 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.\n\nOver 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. \n\nWe 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\n\n**_Our Solution_**\n\nRima **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. \\\n\\\nWe 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. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=101608\u0026key=user_uploads/533018/58582253-59ef-4bdd-b37e-7810d8c86ca5)\n\n\\\nRima 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. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=101608\u0026key=user_uploads/533018/eb9702ef-30bc-4604-ab86-033924c5b9f9)\n\n\\\nToday, accountants use Rima to automate workflows such as cleanups and catchups, bank and CC recon and data entry for tax workpapers among others. \n\nRima is best for accounting teams that still receive documents such as invoices, POs, statements and contracts via email attachments, scans or paper\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=101608\u0026key=user_uploads/533018/2d51ab0c-e331-4e20-926e-0c10dd86352f)\n\n\n**_Our team_**\n\nWe 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. \n\nToday accounting firms and in-house accounting teams are automating manual document workflows on Rima. \n\n**_Where we are headed_**\n\nWe’re on a mission to build the deepest edge case library, powering automations everywhere for SMB accounting teams. \n\n**_Our ASK - How you can help us_** 📌\n\n→ If you know in-house accounting teams struggling with manual document workflows we’d love to speak with them\n\nlearn more @ [www.getrima.ai](http://www.getrima.ai)","slug":"QQq-rima-ai-agents-for-document-work-accountants-hate","created_at":"2026-05-20T01:26:05.918Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:21:39.437Z","total_vote_count":12,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QQq-rima-ai-agents-for-document-work-accountants-hate","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=101608\u0026key=user_uploads/533018/2d51ab0c-e331-4e20-926e-0c10dd86352f","company":{"id":26907,"name":"Rima AI (formerly Garage)","slug":"rima-ai","url":"https://www.getrima.ai","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/29768f3ec06f6ad6cbf8c250cca3501743daf869.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Finance","B2B","Analytics"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26907"}}