Simplify Treasury · Institutional

Making cash intelligence accessible to every team

Northwind builds AI-powered tools that help finance teams see cash, approve payments, and move money, without writing a bank portal ticket.

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How it works

Everything around your cash. In one workspace.

Real-time activity, the rails your team uses, and AI that drafts the next step — Northwind is more than a ledger.

Live

  • W
    Wei Chenjoined Final close8 min ago · Meridian
  • M
    Matthew Johnsonfiled vendor noteContent ops
  • T
    Terry Lipshutzapproved iOS wire pack$48,200

Stay in the loop

A live activity feed of every approval, wire, and board pin — see what just cleared at a glance.

Integrations

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    PlaidBank connections and balance refresh.
  • Q
    QuickBooksLedger sync for close and audit.
  • S
    SlackApproval pings and cash alerts.

Plug into your stack

Plaid, QuickBooks, Slack — toggle the rails your team already lives in and Northwind fits.

draft a follow-up on the Acme wire

Vendor follow-up

Following up on Friday’s outbound. Please confirm beneficiary details before the 4:00 PM ET cutoff.

Suggested: attach approval pack

Let AI draft the next step

Ask Northwind to write vendor notes, cut-off reminders, and follow-ups grounded in the ledger.

Platform

Every angle of your cash. Nothing left to chase.

Connect the accounts, ask in plain English, and ship boards your finance team will actually open.

Data automations

Route every metric to the right desk

Chain triggers, conditions, and Slack — watch each branch update as cash moves through the pipeline.

Completed

Post message to Slack

Sends a cutoff reminder to #treasury.Anomaly detected · Normal range

In progress

Alert cash desk

Posts the chart and a summary to #cash-ops.

Next

Log to history

Records the run for monthly reporting.

Suggested views

Start from a template

  1. Build executive cash board
  2. Forecast Q2 runway
  3. Find duplicate vendors
  4. Compare entity balances
  5. Top 10 outgoing wires
  6. Track payroll drop-off
  7. Detect spend anomalies
  8. Audit policy exceptions

Connect anywhere

Read-only credentials, answers in minutes

Plaid, warehouse, CSV — Northwind reads the schema and starts briefing. Nothing writes back to the bank.

Research chat

Ask anything, cite the ledger

summarize weekend wires on Acme Corp

Searched ledger · 5 results

Here’s the quick rundown:

Acme settled two inbound ACH lots totaling $640K. One outbound wire is still sitting on dual-control because beneficiary name drifted.

Activity timeline

The team always knows what shipped

  • Sofia Rivera pinned a board1 hour ago · PublishedCash by entity — Q3 review
  • Nicole Smith saved a view5 hours agoTop 10 vendors

Why Northwind

Built for operators. Not spreadsheets or bank portals.

Plain English over tickets, beautiful boards over CSV exports, and AI that explains the cash — not just lists it.

Static spreadsheet exportsModern cash intelligence with AISQL-only editors and BI tools

Pricing

Pick the layer. Expand the desk.

Start with operating cash, then add payments, policy, and multi-entity treasury as the team grows.

Essential

$0to start

Operating cash

  • FDIC-insured accounts
  • Entity ledger
  • CSV export
Most selectedCorporate

$49/ seat

Treasury + payments

  • Wires & ACH
  • Policy engine
  • Slack alerts
Enterprise

Customannual

Northwind OS

  • Multi-entity
  • Read-only warehouse
  • Dedicated desk

Loved by teams that ship fast

From two-person shops to finance orgs of 200.

Every team used to have three tickets sitting with treasury. Plain-English cash means operators can pull their own numbers, and the policy it generates is clean enough to trust.

SSarah ChenProduct Manager · Vercel

We tried the big-bank portal. We tried a homegrown sheet. Northwind just connects the accounts and our board can ask ‘what’s runway by entity’ in Slack.

MMarcus WebbFounder · Resona

I keep checking if the desk is real because the boards just keep updating. Zero engineer hours on the latest close pack.

PPriya AnandHead of Engineering · Hatch

Most bank exports produce charts you’d never put in a deck. Northwind’s defaults drop straight into the board room.

DDiego RamirezDesigner · Northbeam

CSMs ask Northwind in Slack — ‘cash for accounts over $50K’ — and get the answer with the ledger lines attached. Tickets dropped 70%.

AAisha KhalidCustomer Success · Lattice

We dropped the portal, the sheet, and a chatbot we never finished. Onboarding took an hour. Nobody asked for the old stack back.

TTom VasquezCTO · Ledgerline

Plugged Plaid and QuickBooks, granted read-only, and we had the first board the same afternoon.

JJames O'BrienEngineering Manager · Atlas

PMs ask in English, controllers review policy, engineers wire the dash into our app. Same desk, three workflows.

YYuki TanakaProduct Designer · Beam

Experiments used to wait two days for a lift query. Now I ask Northwind, get the chart, and decide before standup.

OOlivia ParkGrowth Lead · Stride

Execs read the visualization and the one-sentence cash takeaway together. Board prep is a half-day, not a week.

RRashid MansourHead of Product · Helmsley

Was paying for a BI stack that did half of this. Cancelled it, switched, and hired a part-time controller who actually models.

EEmma ThorntonFounder · Nimbus

Charts used to bounce back with ‘what does this mean?’ Northwind drafts the takeaway. Slack threads about cash went quiet.

AAnil ReddyVP Engineering · Pinch

FAQs

Everything you need to know.

Can't find it? This is a case study — Studio Halden has the rest.

What is Northwind?

Northwind is a fictional treasury workspace: accounts, approvals, and cash briefing in one place. It is a Studio Halden case study — not a bank.

Which rails does the desk support?

The mock is U.S. dollar only: operating, treasury, and reserve ledgers, plus ACH, domestic wire, and card spend views.

Is data sent to a third-party AI?

In a live product the policy would be named. This demo stores nothing. Treat every number as stage dressing.

How do I get started?

Walk the workspace below, then open Pricing. Live onboarding is intentionally disabled.

Stop waiting on the bank portal. Let the desk do the work.

Connect the accounts, ask in plain English, and ship the board before the meeting ends.