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About Lign

Building the future of AI-native business finance.

Finance software has been playing catch-up for a decade. We're building the version that thinks alongside the people using it.

2022
Founded
4
Products, one platform
$2.1B+
Processed through Lign
Now
AI in every product
Who we are

A team obsessed with financial clarity.

We're engineers, finance operators and designers building the infrastructure we always wished we had.

The Lign team collaborating in their office

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Why Lign exists

Finance software stopped being the bottleneck it used to be. We don't think that's good enough.

Most tools digitized the paperwork but kept the workflow the same — someone still has to notice a problem, chase an approval, or rebuild a report by hand. We started Lign because the technology to remove that work entirely already exists. It just hadn't been built into finance yet.

86%
of finance busywork
we believe should be automatic
What we're fixing

The problems we're solving.

Finance is a manual, reactive job — spotting problems after the money's already gone
Controls that catch problems before spending happens
Cards, payments, and expenses live in disconnected tools that don't talk to each other
One system where every product shares the same data and policies
Every report is a rebuild — exporting, formatting, double-checking by hand
Numbers that are already correct, the moment someone asks for them
Our vision

Financial operations that run themselves, with a human always in control.

We're not trying to remove people from finance — we're trying to remove the parts of the job that were never really about judgment in the first place. The goal is a company's finances that stay healthy by default, so the humans running the business can spend their attention on the business.

👁️
See everything, instantly
No delay between spend and visibility
Let AI handle the routine
Policy checks, categorization, reconciliation
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Keep humans on judgment calls
The decisions that actually need a person
How we got here

Our journey, so far.

'22
2022
Lign is founded
Three founders, one shared frustration with manual finance ops
'23
2023
Corporate Cards ships
Our first product, and our first paying customers
'24
2024
QRIS Payment & Corporate Account launch
The platform starts becoming a system, not a single tool
'25
2025
AI layer built into every product
Intelligence stops being a feature and becomes the foundation
'26
2026
Today
Serving startups through enterprise, on one connected platform
What we hold ourselves to

Our core principles.

Craft over speed

Every detail — a transition, a copy line, an error state — is a decision we make on purpose, not a default we shipped past.

Trust is earned daily

Security and transparency aren't a checklist — they're how we operate every day.

Simple, not simplistic

Complex financial operations, made to feel obvious — never dumbed down.

Intelligence, not automation theater

AI in Lign makes real recommendations grounded in your actual data — not a chatbot wrapper around static software.

How we work

How we design and build products.

We prototype interactively before we ever write production code — if an interaction doesn't feel right as a working demo, it doesn't ship as a feature. Design and engineering sit in the same room, because you shouldn't be able to tell where one ends and the other begins.

  • ✓ Small, senior teams — no hand-offs between design and code
  • ✓ Every animation serves a purpose, or it doesn't ship
  • ✓ Real customer conversations before every roadmap decision
1
Prototype
Interactive, not static
2
Test
With real customers
3
Refine
Every detail, twice
4
Ship
Then keep iterating
Our workplace

Where Lign gets built.

An office in Jakarta, a distributed team, and a lot of conversations about money moving well.

Office spaceambience — 1200x900
Team stand-upambience — 900x1200
Customer workshopambience — 1200x900
Who's building this

Leadership & team.

Co-founder & CEO

Previously led product at a payments company. Obsessed with removing friction from financial software.

Co-founder & CTO

Built infrastructure at scale before Lign. Believes the best interfaces disappear behind the task.

Head of Design

Spent a decade in design engineering. Thinks taste is trained, not innate — and it shows in the product.

Proof, not promises

Trusted by businesses at every stage.

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We're still early. The next few years are about AI moving from suggesting what finance teams should do, to quietly handling more of it directly — with people staying firmly in control of every decision that matters. That's the company we're building.

The Lign Team
Building in public, one release at a time