How a growing food brand cut $12,000 a year in accounting costs and freed 40 hours a month in just one week

Every financial transaction followed the same path: a receipt or confirmation arrived by email, an accountant opened it, read the details, and manually logged the entry into the bookkeeping spreadsheet. Credit card statements, supplier invoices, daily sales reports. All funneled through the same slow, manual pipeline.

The result was forty hours of staff time per month spent on data input that added no analytical value, plus a meaningful line item in accounting costs the business had accepted as fixed overhead. The operations team spent its days feeding numbers into cells instead of improving the business.

Alta Marea built an AI-powered accounting automation in one week. The system connects directly to Donde Rita's email inbox, credit card reporting platform, and accounting software, automatically extracting, categorizing, and logging financial data without manual intervention.

The automation handles roughly eighty percent of what previously required a person at a screen typing numbers into cells. The remaining twenty percent, including judgment calls, exceptions, and reconciliation, still goes through the operations team. Now they spend their time on decisions, not data entry.