Walkthrough
Watch a month close, from the 1st to the sign-off.
Four minutes of reading rather than a demo you have to book.
March 2026 · Fieldwork Studio, twelve people in Bristol
00:00 · 1 March
Connect the feeds, then leave it alone.
Read-only open banking for the current account, Stripe for payouts, and the card that nobody can find the statements for. Four minutes of clicking, then Alder reads two years backwards while you make a coffee.
- Connected
Monzo Business
Current account
- Connected
Stripe
Payouts and fees
- Reading
Barclaycard
24 months of history
01:10 · 9 March
A queue of questions, not a ledger to read.
Everything routine is already filed. What reaches you is the handful of lines a rule cannot settle, each one phrased as the question behind it. Six of them this week.
To review6 left · ≈ 4 min
Northbank Rail — £118.40
Client travel, or getting to the studio?
Travel — billableTravel — overhead
Ardent Type — £96.00
One licence, or the studio’s?
SoftwareFreelance costs
02:20 · 22 March
Runway, answered in one sentence.
Fieldwork asked what a fourth designer does to the line. Alder reads the real burn — payroll, software, the VAT bill in April — and answers before the conversation cools off.
With one more designer6.1 months MarAprMayJunJulAugSolid bars are booked. Faded bars carry the new salary from May.
03:40 · 31 March
Signed off at 16:12, on a Tuesday.
The close is a checklist with four lines already ticked. Fieldwork did the rest in an afternoon, and their accountant had the pack before she asked for it.
- Feeds reconciledauto
- Queue cleared6 items
- Payroll journalledauto
- Accountant pack sent1 click
March closed31 Mar, 16:12 · 3h 40m
3h 40m
One month, start to signed off, at a twelve-person studio with three bank accounts. The median across 1,400 studios is the same figure.
Would you rather be talked through it?
Thirty minutes with the person who built the close checklist, on your books rather than Fieldwork’s. No slides, no second call.
Proof
“We used to lose the first week of every quarter to the books. Last quarter I did the whole close on a Thursday afternoon, and the only thing my accountant asked for was a coffee.”
Marguerite Osei
Founder, Fieldwork Studio
12 people · Bristol · with Alder since 2024
“The runway number is the only dashboard I look at. It has been right within a fortnight every time, including the quarter we hired two designers.”
“I run books for nine studios. Alder is the first tool where I have not had to teach the client anything before it works.”
- Median month-end close
- 3h 40m
- Median time to get paid
- 19 days
- Studios keeping books here
- 1,400+
Close your next month in an afternoon.
Thirty days, all of Studio, no card. Import last year while you are there — it takes about ten minutes and tells you more than this page can.
- Set-up time
- Under 10 minutes, on your own
- If you would rather ask
- hello@alder.co