When it comes to accounting solutions, experience matters.
Tight’s full-service, user-friendly solutions have empowered over 1.2M small businesses to date — and we’re just getting started.
Our Story
Small businesses form the backbone of our communities—but they need help to survive.
We’ve all read the statistics. Small businesses make up 99.9% of the American economy and nearly half of all jobs, but 20% fail within their first year of operation.
This has a ripple effect beyond the businesses themselves, also impacting the vendors that rely on them for revenue. In fact, high rates of small business failure represent the largest unforced cause of churn for today’s service providers.
When it comes to finances, SMBs are ready for change.
Despite advancing technology, 62% of SMBs still rely on manual methods like spreadsheets to track their finances, and it can hurt their bottom line. Luckily, they’re looking for change.
One report found 79% of SMBs would be more likely to partner with a third-party vendor—like a vertical SaaS provider or fintech—if it offered accounting functions within its app.
That means most SMBs are looking to move away from fragmented financial experiences (like they’d get from QuickBooks or Xero) and instead want to tackle their bookkeeping, invoicing, expense management, financial reporting, and tax filing from a single platform
But actually building accounting functions into a platform is challenging. Enter Tight.
Prior to Tight, we had a Vertical ERP platform for ten years (exited to Yardi) where our clients relied upon us to provide our mission-critical accounting software and full-service support. Since 2012, our vision for Tight has been to simplify this complexity for all Vertical SaaS platforms.
What’s the result? A white-glove, white-labeled solution that empowers you to embed accounting capabilities directly into your products and services—without building anything in-house. We focus on the edge cases, while you focus on your GTM strategy and helping your SMB customers get ahead. It’s small business accounting made simple, the way it should be.
Our Values
Breadth
We architected our products to serve the needs of different small business types and accounting models. Our platform supports a range of entities (including SPs, LLCs, LLPs, S corps, and C corps), as well as cash-basis, modified cash-basis, and accrual-basis accounting methods.
Expertise
Tight sold directly to small businesses for our first six years (branded as Hurdlr), supporting hundreds of thousands of growing companies before pivoting into embedded accounting to maximize our impact. That means we know first-hand what SMBs actually need, and we’ve optimized our solution to provide it.
Reliability
We’re lifetime-to-date profitable, with zero debt and a strong balance sheet. Our clients can rest assured we’ll be here to support them in the years ahead. But don’t just take our word for it—the SMB-focused platforms we work with will tell you why we’re a well-kept secret.
Partnership
We put our clients first, and we count their wins as our own. That’s why we’re fully white-labeled. Our clients can own their end-to-end user experience, grow their relationships, and watch their business, and their customers' businesses, thrive—while our APIs run happily in the background.
Results
We’ve seen dozens of high-growth companies—including vertical SaaS platforms, fintechs, and other SMB-focused service providers—embed our accounting solutions into their products and build one-stop financial superapps for their customers. Together, we’ve helped more than 1.2 million small businesses transform their operations.
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