Founders and small business owners who track finances in a shared spreadsheet or "deal with accounting later" almost always end up in the same place: unreconciled transactions, missed compliance deadlines, and no clean financials to show an investor, bank, or grant panel when it matters. ZeroPilot AI's Clarity Plan puts a qualified accounting team behind your books from day one — at a price built for a pre-revenue or single-founder budget, not an enterprise one.
Why Getting This Right Early Matters
Investors and grant panels conduct financial due diligence. A Malaysian startup that can't produce a clean monthly P&L or a reconciled 12-month balance sheet raises doubt about operational discipline, regardless of how good the product is — and CRADLE grants, MaGIC accelerator applications, and SME Corp programmes all require accurate financial records as part of the process. Founders whose books have been managed properly from incorporation close funding rounds faster and with more credibility, simply because the numbers are already in a defensible format.
What We Handle For Startups
- Investor-ready financial statements: P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, formatted for investor and grant panel review and available on request — not a once-a-year job for your accountant.
- Burn rate and runway tracking: your monthly burn rate and cash runway, calculated from actual expenditure via your Syft Analytics dashboard, so you always know how many months you have at current spend.
- Cap table and equity tracking: share issuances, founder shares, and equity-based compensation recorded so your equity history stays clean for your corporate secretary and any future auditor.
- Expense management for distributed teams: your team submits receipts via Dext from their phone, an approver signs off, and our team posts the entry and reimbursement record — no paper trail to chase.
Just Starting Out: Micro Businesses and Sole Proprietors
Home-based sellers, freelancers, tuition teachers, and sole proprietors have the same underlying compliance obligations as a larger SME — an annual LHDN return, eventual e-invoice compliance, SST if you cross the threshold — but none of the resources of a finance department. The Clarity Plan is built for exactly this: professional invoicing, expense tracking via receipt photo through Dext, and a plain-language income and expense summary at tax time, run by our team so you're not the one deciding how to book a transaction. Creating and sending an invoice takes under a minute; everything behind it — the ledger entry, the e-invoice submission, the tax coding — is our job, not yours.
LHDN e-Invoice and SST, Set Up Right From the Start
LHDN's e-invoice mandate is rolling out in phases by annual turnover, and it will eventually reach every business, including micro businesses and sole proprietors. We set your invoicing up e-invoice-ready in Xero from your very first sale, so there's no retrofitting scramble when your phase arrives — see our full e-invoice compliance guide for the current phase schedule. We also monitor your revenue against the SST registration threshold (RM500,000 for taxable services) and flag it well before you're required to register, so you're never caught filing your first return late.
Pricing That Scales With You
The Clarity Plan at RM1,497/month covers everything a startup, micro business, or sole proprietor needs: invoicing, LHDN e-invoice readiness, SST monitoring, bank feeds, and monthly reporting. As you add employees or complexity, you move up to the Control Plan (RM2,497/month) or Command Plan (RM5,777/month). Eligible businesses can apply the MSME Digitalisation Grant toward onboarding costs — see the full breakdown on our pricing page.
Start With Books an Investor Can Trust
Book a free 30-minute demo. We'll walk through your current stage — pre-revenue, first sale, or first employee — and show you exactly what a properly managed set of books looks like from here.