She had people do AI’s work

Helen Hastings, Quanta, AI, B2B, SaaS (software as a service)

Helen Hastings wanted to create better accounting software. To figure out what to build, she had humans do the work. This is the story of how she created Quanta, the accounting software that’s taking on QuickBooks with a more modern human+software approach.

Helen Hastings

Helen Hastings

Quanta

Helen Hastings is the founder and CEO of Quanta, an AI-powered accounting platform built for modern software and services companies. Before Quanta, she was a software engineer at Affirm, where she specialized in building financial ledgers and systems of record. She’s also worked at Google and NerdWallet, bringing deep fintech and infrastructure experience to one of accounting’s hardest problems.

Andrew Warner: [00:00:00] This founder had human beings do the work of ai. Humans answered questions, uploaded files, organized financial data. It helped to raise $20 [00:00:09] million for an AI based accounting software company. Copy her approach. Helen Hastings is the founder of Quanta Accounting Software that works fast because [00:00:18] it uses a combination of humans and AI backed software.

The next new thing, Helen, the interesting thing about you [00:00:27] is that you basically had humans do AI in the beginning. How did you do it? Gimme an example of something that a human being did then that today AI is doing because you [00:00:36] noticed it back then.

Helen Hastings: So we saw people just reading a lot of human written text is the biggest example of where AI has made a difference.

So, [00:00:45] um, imagine you have purchased something with a corporate card or maybe you need a reimbursement. You have to put a, a memo on that into your...

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