If you are still manually reconciling receipts against a CSV export, you aren't managing expenses—you're just performing data entry with extra steps. The gap between a digital receipt and a balanced ledger is where most small business operations fall apart.
In the world of SaaS, we spend a massive amount of time optimizing the performance of our application code, yet we often ignore the operational friction within our own back-office processes. If your accounting workflow is disconnected from your daily business activities, you are essentially flying blind until the end of the month. By then, the context of why an expense was incurred—the 'why' behind the transaction—has evaporated.
Workflow screenshots
These screenshots are useful here because they hint at where Expense either stays grounded in the user's real task or becomes another detached admin screen.
The Problem of Contextual Decay
