Clean books, or the whole company on one screen.
Puzzle is excellent at one job: real-time, tax-ready books reconciled straight from Mercury, so you do not wait until month end to see your cash position. The gap is everything around the books. Tasks, clients, docs, and goals live in other tools, so you pair Puzzle with a Linear or a Trello and sync by hand. Zetadeck computes live burn and runway from your bank and recurring costs, then puts them in the same workspace as the tasks, pipeline, and docs you run every day.
| Puzzle | Zetadeck | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An AI-native accounting platform. | An operator command center with live finance built in. |
| Books and reconciliation | Deep: statutory, tax-ready, subledgers, real-time reconciliation. | A working ledger and live runway, not full statutory accounting. |
| Tasks and daily ops | Not built in. You pair it with Trello, Linear, or similar. | Native board, collaborative docs, and CRM in the same workspace. |
| Finance and runway | Auto-calculated burn and runway from the Mercury feed. | Live burn and runway, surfaced as a prioritized alert when it dips below your threshold. |
| AI | Categorizes and reconciles transactions. | A co-pilot that answers across runway, pipeline, and tasks at once. |
| Price (as of mid-2026) | Starting around $25 per month, up to about $100 per month. | Free for up to 3 people, then $10 per seat per month. |
When Puzzle is the better call
We would rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one and churn.
- Your biggest need is audit-ready, statutory books for a tax filing or investor diligence. Puzzle, or a dedicated accountant, goes deeper on accounting than Zetadeck sets out to.
- You need deep specialized features: advanced marketing automation sequences, full double-entry accounting like QuickBooks or NetSuite, or a heavily customized enterprise CRM. An all-in-one trades some depth for one workspace that agrees with itself.
Questions
Does Zetadeck replace Puzzle?
For seeing live burn and runway alongside the work that drives them, yes. For statutory, tax-ready books with full subledgers, Puzzle or a dedicated accounting suite goes deeper than Zetadeck aims to.
Do both connect to Mercury?
Yes. Both read your Mercury balances and transactions. Zetadeck adds the daily operating surfaces (tasks, CRM, docs) on the same data, so the numbers sit next to the work instead of in a separate books tool.
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