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Playbooks for modern finance teams.
Product updates, finance ops advice and the occasional hard lesson from the teams that use Tessel.
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The two-day close: a checklist for startups under 50 people
Eleven habits that took our customers from a ten-day close to two, none of which need a new hire.
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Priya Nandakumar
Product
Approvals now live where your team already talks
Approve, decline or ask a question from chat, with policy checks attached to every request.
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Tomas Wiren
Founders
How to set your first spend policy without slowing anyone down
Start with three rules, publish them in plain English and tighten only when the data tells you to.
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Lena Okonkwo
Product
Virtual cards per vendor: why one card per subscription pays off
Cancel by freezing. Track by name. Catch price hikes before the invoice, not after.
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Tomas Wiren
Finance ops
Receipt policies people actually follow
We looked at 1.4 million expenses to find the threshold where reminders stop working.
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Priya Nandakumar
Company
Tessel raises $48M Series B to build the finance stack for startups
What we are building next, who is joining us, and what it means for customers.
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Mira Halvorsen