Their numbers, signed.

Standfirst sells newsroom analytics to regional publishers. Sixty-one people, London and Tallinn, and revenue arriving three ways: Stripe for self-serve, Chargebee for the annual contracts, and invoices the sales team still sends by hand.

The close took nine days. Finance exported each source to its own spreadsheet, matched rows by eye, and every board pack carried an MRR figure somebody had re-derived the night before. Two of those figures disagreed in the same quarter. The auditors noticed.

Recur read all three feeds on a Tuesday. The first match run finished in 54 minutes and surfaced 17 rows that would not pair; twelve were credit notes booked against the wrong month, five were duplicate manual invoices nobody had caught. Finance cleared the queue by Thursday.

Since then the statement publishes when the delta reads zero. The board pack is an export of the close, the auditors take the trail as-is, and the March figure everyone quotes is the March figure the ledger holds.