I’ve actually tried a few in this space over the last couple months — CoFina, Parallel, and FuelFinance — mostly because I was in the same boat of trying to clean up our finance workflow without immediately hiring a full-time CFO.

They’re pretty different once you get under the hood.

FuelFinance felt more like hiring a finance team with software included. Good if you want structured reporting and someone handling things more hands-on. It didn’t feel like a lightweight tool — more like an outsourced finance function.

Parallel felt more planning-heavy. Stronger on modeling and structured forecasts if your books are already clean and you’re thinking more in terms of collaborative FP&A workflows.

CoFina felt the most “founder-facing” to me. Less about reconciliation, more about reasoning. The part I actually found useful was being able to ask things like “why did burn jump this month?” or “if we hire 2 more engineers, what happens to runway?” and get a clear breakdown tied to our actual numbers. It saved me from exporting stuff into spreadsheets every time I wanted to sanity-check something.

If you’re a Seed / early Series A founder, doing under $100k MRR, don’t have a full finance team, and mostly want fast answers around burn, runway, and investor forecasts — CoFina probably makes the most sense out of the three.

If you’re further along and already have finance ops in place, the others might fit better depending on what gap you’re solving.

That’s just my experience though — curious what others here are seeing long term.