About Ledgerly
We started Ledgerly because small businesses were being sold software built for finance directors — and billed for the privilege.
The founding story
In 2021, Arun Mehta and Kate Bellamy were engineers on an audit platform at a large accountancy firm — software that could reconcile a FTSE 100 balance sheet, priced accordingly. The same year, Kate’s sister opened a bakery in Walthamstow and did her books in a spreadsheet with a tin of receipts on top of the fridge.
The gap seemed absurd. The hardest bookkeeping problems — categorisation, matching, VAT — had been solved for big companies for a decade. Nobody had bothered to make the solving quiet, and cheap enough for a bakery.
So they left, rented a small office off Rivington Street, and spent eight months building the ledger they wished the bakery had. Ledgerly filed its first VAT return in March 2022. Today the team is about forty people, still in London, still answering support email themselves on Fridays.
Principles
If a sentence needs an accounting glossary, we rewrite the sentence, not the reader. Every screen says what happened to your money in words a busy owner understands at a glance, with the jargon one click away for those who want it.
No countdown timers, no guilt-trip toggles, no cancellation maze. The cancel button sits in Settings, clearly labelled, and works in two clicks. If we have to trick you into staying, we have already failed at the actual job.
Export every transaction, invoice and return, any time, in formats other software reads. Leaving should be easy — we would rather you stayed because the product works than because the exit is hard to find.
The people
Forty of us — engineers, accountants, support humans — behind one calm ledger.
Co-founder & CEO. Ex-audit-platform engineer; still reviews the categorisation model’s worst guesses every Monday.
Co-founder & CTO. Wrote the first bank-feed importer in a weekend; her sister’s bakery is customer number one.
Head of Product. Former practice accountant; measures every feature by how many clicks it removes from a Tuesday.
Press & awards
Named Accounting Software of the Year at the 2025 British Small Business Awards; featured in the Financial Times fintech briefing and Courier’s “Tools we actually use”. For press enquiries, write to hello@ledgerly.io.
Careers
Four open roles, all London hybrid (three days in Rivington Street). No cover letters — send something you’ve made to hello@ledgerly.io.
Try the ledger the bakery got — free for 30 days, no card needed.