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Cranston AI

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Full Stack AI Accounting Firm

Fall 2025Founded 20252 people
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Cranston is a full stack AI accounting firm automating the $900b market for accounting labor. Our software automates reconciliation, tax compliance and financial analysis for startups & SMBs. We pull in context from all your company's apps & data, connect to existing systems of record and handle repetitive accounting work. Our team is deep in the accounting space. Sean spent 5 years building an ERP after dropping out of Stanford and Max spent 5 years building an accounting firm that did every accounting workflow you can imagine on top of ERPs.

Founders ยท 2

Sean O'Bannon
Sean O'BannonFounder
DatabricksStanford

Founder at Cranston AI (F25). Prev Stanford CS + AI, Founder + CTO at ReMatter, ex Databricks

Max Minsker
Max MinskerFounder

Co-Founder of Cranston AI. Previously owned a tax practice that filed 10,000+ tax returns.

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