Four reasons to believe us, and where to check each one.
Outsourced finance is sold on adjectives — trusted, seamless, world-class. None of them are checkable. Here is the argument for Salt in plain terms, with the page that evidences each part of it.
The alternatives
We tell you when someone else is the better answer.
Bench, Pilot and hiring in-house each beat us for some businesses, and the comparisons say which and why, with sources and a verification date on every factual claim about a competitor. A comparison that always concludes in our favour is not worth reading, so ours do not.
Read the comparisonsThe evidence
Engagements described by their shape, not by adjectives.
No logos, no star ratings, no testimonials we wrote ourselves. Seven case studies are anonymised client engagements — sector, stage, jurisdiction, transaction volume — with what we found, what we did and a note on what was hard. The other 42 are scenarios: worked examples of how we approach a problem, labelled as such on every card and at the top of every page, because an illustration presented as a client is the same lie as a fabricated logo.
See the case studiesThe data question
Your ledger never leaves your environment.
We work inside your cloud accounting platform, on your subscription, through isolated remote sessions over VPN, under multi-jurisdictional NDAs signed before onboarding. Access is granted by you to a named individual, and you can revoke it in one click without asking us.
How the architecture worksWho you are hiring
Built by operators who had the problem first.
Salt was built inside an agency that was living multi-jurisdiction finance pain — late books, a VAT registration nobody owned, a runway number that turned out to be wrong. That is why the service is structured as three teams rather than one generalist bookkeeper.
About SaltWhat you can hold us to.
A named delivery lead
You work with one locally qualified lead who is matched to your software and workflow before they touch a file — not an anonymous queue.
Zero local data
We operate exclusively inside your cloud stack over isolated, VPN-protected connections under multi-jurisdictional NDAs. Nothing is downloaded to a local drive.
A written quote in 24 hours
One short discovery call, then a fixed written scope and price within a business day. No open-ended hourly billing and no surprise invoices.
Built to do what Bench and Pilot can't.
| Capability | Salt | Bench | Pilot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-country compliance | 10 countries | US only | US only |
| Named delivery lead | Yes | Pooled support | Yes |
| CFO-level advisory | Included tiers | No | Premium add-on |
| White-label for CPA and accounting firms | Yes | No | No |
| Catch-up and cleanup projects | Yes | Limited | Yes |
| Industry specialisation | SaaS · Agency · E-com | Limited | SaaS · E-com |
Comparison reflects publicly positioned offerings and is provided for orientation.
What the work looks like when it lands.
Anonymised by client, specific about everything else. Each one records what was found, what was done, and what it cost to have left it that long.
US restaurant, catering and outdoor events LLC
A migration checked line by line, not trusted to the tool
A US LLC moved from Xero to QuickBooks without disrupting operations — because every opening balance was verified rather than assumed.
Xero · QuickBooks Online
Read the engagementUK professional services firm preparing for funding
One set of numbers, four audiences that each wanted them differently
A UK firm approaching equity investors and lenders needed the same accurate financials reshaped into the formats each reviewer expected.
Xero
Read the engagementCanadian transportation business with backlogged books
Months of unreconciled data before a GST return could be trusted
A transportation business had fallen behind. The books needed a full cleanup before GST could be reconciled, filed, and the year's data handed off.
Xero
Read the engagement
Your financial data never leaves your environment.
Every engagement runs on a zero-local-data architecture. We work exclusively inside your cloud via isolated, VPN-protected connections under multi-jurisdictional NDAs. Nothing is ever downloaded to a local hard drive.
Your Cloud
QuickBooks · Xero · NetSuite
VPN Tunnel
Encrypted access
Isolated RDP
No local downloads
Salt Team
NDA-governed
The questions buyers actually ask.
Ask the awkward question up front.
No obligation. Tell us the thing you think will be a problem — the two years of unfiled VAT, the certification requirement, the competitor you are also talking to — and we will answer it in the quote.