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📝 Ready Plan Go raises $750k
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Montréal-based Ready Plan Go has raised $750,000 in pre-seed funding from Mistral Venture Partners and 15 angel investors, including Stay22 CEO Andrew Lockhead and former General Dynamics Canada president Firat Gezen, to build an AI-powered back office for accountants. Founded by Nima Jalalvandi, who once dreaded tax season as his family’s go-to tax preparer, the startup aims to automate the tedious document collection and data-entry work of tax preparation, allowing accountants to focus on advising clients. After graduating from Station FinTech Montréal and Next AI, and winning $175,000 in awards at Startupfest, the company is targeting U.S. firms—recently landing its first large client in Pennsylvania—and plans to use the funds for acquisitions and product development. With 80% of accountants nearing retirement and a persistent labour shortage, Ready Plan Go sees an opening to modernize the industry with human-in-the-loop AI agents that handle tax prep tasks and integrate with major filing platforms. “Ninety-nine percent accuracy is not enough,” said Jalalvandi, emphasizing the company’s hybrid approach and pursuit of SOC 2 certification to ensure security and precision in automating the future of accounting.
Here's a great paper by Nobel winner Philippe Aghion (and Benjamin F. Jones and Charles I. Jones) on AI and economic growth.
The key takeaway is that because of Baumol's cost disease, even if 99% of the economy is fully automated and infinitely productive, the overall growth
— Séb Krier (@sebkrier)
7:50 PM • Oct 13, 2025
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