Mayday's mission to mend month end
M-Powering finance teams to close faster, eliminate errors, and focus on what matters.
For too long, finance teams have been stuck in the dark ages of month end. Mayday brings them into the modern era, replacing slow, error-prone manual work with one-click automation. With over 12,000 organisations delivering over 250,000 postings through Mayday, we’re M-Powering finance teams to scale confidently on Xero or QuickBooks, offering ERP-level control and insight, minus the cost and complexity.
Our Story
Founded by award-winning, serial entrepreneurs, with deep experience in accounting technology
David started his career at Deloitte, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser. He led a succession of startup and SME finance teams. He spent seven years as the Founder & CEO of Chaser. He built it into the market-leading accounts receivable software for startups and SMEs, winning Xero’s App Partner of the Year in 2016 and AccountingWEB Cloud App of the Year three years in a row 2017-19.
Griff is a serial startup technologist and machine learning expert. He graduated top of his class in Computer Science from the University of Warwick. Griff became the CTO of marketing technology startup Idio at the age of just 24, where he and David met. During his 7 years at Idio, Griff helped drive the business through three funding rounds, international expansion and grew the Software Engineering team to 12 people. After four years as the CTO of HR software Rungway, Griff and David joined forces to co-found Mayday together.
Our Product Vision
Our products automate the critical month-end workflows that sit between bookkeeping and reporting, helping finance teams close faster, eliminate errors, and reduce manual work to a single click.
Balancer ensures intercompany loan accounts will never again fall out of balance.
Mayday Recharger automates recharges of costs and revenues between multiple entities.
BRAG empowers you to reconcile bank transactions across your group, directly inside Xero.
Mayday HQ centralises control of lock dates, chart of accounts, and tracking categories across your group.
Deferred Revenue & Prepayments automate the creation and recognition of your deferred revenue and prepayment schedules.
These products are already freeing up space for finance teams to create value for their business in more meaningful ways!
Why the name Mayday?
Mayday is the international standard call for help. We’re answering that call for startups and SMEs looking for the advice they need in navigating the maze of month end. More broadly, Mayday originates from the French “m’aidez” — help me.
Too many of us are bogged down by antiquated processes that no longer make sense. As Mayday grows, we will be able to provide valuable help to more and more finance professionals, rescuing them from outdated systems and freeing up their time and attention to make space for bigger things.
