Founders drowning in mismatched ecommerce numbers — one profit & cash view

Founders of small and mid-sized ecommerce and DTC brands routinely pull conflicting revenue, fee and refund numbers from Shopify, Stripe, Meta and payment providers and end up making cash and margin decisions off mismatched spreadsheets; this is especially acute for the roughly 3 million ecommerce and DTC brands that lack full-time finance teams and need simple, reliable answers about runway and true profitability. The consequence is predictable: misestimated cash runway, incorrect pricing or ad spend decisions, and time wasted reconciling transactions instead of building product. You could build a reconciliation-first financial control plane that ingests transaction-level data from Shopify, Stripe, Meta and other payment APIs, normalizes fees/refunds/chargebacks into an automated P&L and cash statement, and presents both real-time cash and accrual profit views plus SKU- and cohort-level unit economics and short-term runway forecasts. Keep it lightweight for founder use—fast onboarding with pre-built connectors and templates, automated allocation rules, and a clear single “profit & cash” dashboard that contrasts platform-reported revenue with bank-settled cash flow. The timing is favorable: API proliferation and founder-led DTC growth increase addressable customers and make automated reconciliation technically feasible, and macro margin pressure raises willingness to pay for clarity (market score 92/100, revenue potential 88/100). That said, competition is medium and the hard work is operational: building and maintaining connectors, handling platform edge cases and custom fee structures, and finding efficient distribution to price-sensitive founders are real challenges; the strongest defensibility will be reliability of reconciliation, UX tailored to solo founders, and measurable cash runway improvements rather than vanity metrics.