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From expert insights to customer stories and hands-on guides. Everything early-stage startup founders need to build smarter financial operations.

Five ways to write code: how to choose the right workflow thumbnail
Sep 23, 2026Product updates

Five ways to write code: how to choose the right workflow

How our engineers choose which workflow to use with coding agents for a task.

How the Engineering Manager role is evolving thumbnail
Sep 7, 2026Founder insights

How the Engineering Manager role is evolving

The Engineering Manager is the most misunderstood role in a startup. Here's how it's evolved at Seapoint, and what I've learnt along the way.

How to build your first go-to-market strategy thumbnail
Sep 3, 2026Founder insights

How to build your first go-to-market strategy

A step-by-step guide on how we built a go-to-market strategy that determined how we sold, who we sold to, and how we could start to scale.

The AI jobs panic vs the data thumbnail
Aug 25, 2026Founder insights

The AI jobs panic vs the data

A breakdown of the actual data that contradicts the fear of mass unemployment.

How we built Harbor, our internal AI agent platform thumbnail
Aug 20, 2026

How we built Harbor, our internal AI agent platform

Harbor is Seapoint’s internal platform that builds AI agents without engineering. Here’s how we built it and the lessons we learnt along the way.

The principles behind our pricing thumbnail
Aug 18, 2026Company news

The principles behind our pricing

The five principles behind Seapoint’s pricing — try before you buy, support for early-stage founders, free to manage your money, pricing that scales with your business, and no surprises — plus the plans we’ll offer from 15th September.

Runway Analysis: model a decision, see the runway impact thumbnail
Aug 6, 2026Product updates

Runway Analysis: model a decision, see the runway impact

Runway Analysis is live in Seapoint Reporting. Model any decision — a hire, a bill, new revenue — against your live cash and see the runway impact in seconds, without a spreadsheet.

How Seapoint Uses AI to Categorise Your Bank Transactions thumbnail
Jul 29, 2026Founder insights

How Seapoint Uses AI to Categorise Your Bank Transactions

How Seapoint turns cryptic bank descriptors into clean, categorised transactions — deterministic rules, AI agents, human review, and the accuracy number we actually measure.

How to hire your first 10 people thumbnail
Jul 13, 2026Founder insights

How to hire your first 10 people

Hiring your founding team is the most important thing you do as a founder. Sean Mullaney’s playbook for the first 10 hires, from Google X and Stripe to Seapoint.

What's new in Seapoint: June 2026 thumbnail
Jun 30, 2026Product updates

What's new in Seapoint: June 2026

Your accountant can now work directly in Seapoint, incoming payments sync to Xero, reporting shows for any time period, and other new features we’ve shipped.

How to validate a startup idea: why most founders get it wrong thumbnail
Jun 24, 2026Founder insights

How to validate a startup idea: why most founders get it wrong

Most founders try to prove their idea will work. That’s the trap. Sean Mullaney, founder of Seapoint, explains why trying to disprove your idea is the more honest - and more effective - test

Your books, always up to date. Without the back-and-forth. thumbnail
Jun 2, 2026Product updates

Your books, always up to date. Without the back-and-forth.

Stop chasing receipts and briefing your accountant from scratch every month. Seapoint matches, categorises, and syncs everything automatically.

How to build a strong team: the 3 filters behind every great early-stage hire thumbnail
May 26, 2026Founder insights

How to build a strong team: the 3 filters behind every great early-stage hire

Hiring is too important to hand off. The three filters Seapoint applies to every role, and why they're non-negotiable.

Most founders know their approximate runway. Few know their actual one. thumbnail
May 20, 2026Product updates

Most founders know their approximate runway. Few know their actual one.

Most early-stage startups operate across three or four financial tools before hiring someone whose job is to make sense of them. The data exists. A coherent picture of it doesn't.

Why 10x better is easier to build than 10% better thumbnail
May 12, 2026Founder insights

Why 10x better is easier to build than 10% better

Many founders default to building something incrementally better than what exists. But the more ambitious bet is often the smarter one.

We've raised €7.5M to give every startup founder financial clarity from day one thumbnail
Apr 21, 2026Company news

We've raised €7.5M to give every startup founder financial clarity from day one

Seapoint is now open to all founders. €7.5M in new funding, 80+ companies running their finances on the platform, and a product built from the ground up to give founders financial clarity.

One view, total clarity: How Tito manages its finances with Seapoint thumbnail
Apr 20, 2026Customer stories

One view, total clarity: How Tito manages its finances with Seapoint

Paul Campbell has been running Tito for over ten years. Here's why a single view of all his cash turned out to be the game-changer.

Bolted on vs baked in: Why Lissom chose Seapoint to scale thumbnail
Apr 7, 2026Customer stories

Bolted on vs baked in: Why Lissom chose Seapoint to scale

Lissom co-founder Annie Gilchrist on treasury, bookkeeping, and why an AI-native stack beats retrofitted every time.

FAQ: How to raise a pre-seed and seed round in Europe thumbnail
Mar 30, 2026Founder insights

FAQ: How to raise a pre-seed and seed round in Europe

No theory, no recycled advice, just questions that keep coming up in our founder conversations, answered directly.

Building, not admin: How Inovara transformed its financial operations using Seapoint thumbnail
Mar 11, 2026Customer stories

Building, not admin: How Inovara transformed its financial operations using Seapoint

How a 12-month-old startup replaced a patchwork of banking apps, manual payroll, and idle treasury funds with one dashboard.

Your raised capital is earning nothing. We built something to fix that. thumbnail
Mar 5, 2026Product updates

Your raised capital is earning nothing. We built something to fix that.

Your hard-raised capital should be extending your runway, not sitting idle. Seapoint Treasury lets your startup earn competitive interest through BlackRock Money Market Funds - integrated directly into your existing business account. No minimum balance. No extra KYC.

Building a startup in Ireland: The ambition trap thumbnail
Mar 3, 2026Founder insights

Building a startup in Ireland: The ambition trap

European founders face a trap that has nothing to do with capital or talent. It's the comfort of a supportive ecosystem that isn't pushing you hard enough.

The monthly payroll scramble: How to end it thumbnail
Feb 16, 2026Product updates

The monthly payroll scramble: How to end it

Every founder dreads payroll. Here's how to automate it and turn 30 minutes into 3.

Your startup triggers fraud alerts: Why the banking system fails founders thumbnail
Feb 4, 2026Founder insights

Your startup triggers fraud alerts: Why the banking system fails founders

Banks can't tell startups from fraud: Learn why VC-backed founders face rejection, frozen accounts, and endless KYB - and what needs to change.

What to know about fundraising: A founder's guide to running a tight process thumbnail
Jan 29, 2026Founder insights

What to know about fundraising: A founder's guide to running a tight process

Learn how to raise pre-seed to Series A capital efficiently. From preparation to closing, this guide covers the four stages every founder goes through.

Why financial clarity is the difference between survival and failure thumbnail
Jan 8, 2026Founder insights

Why financial clarity is the difference between survival and failure

Why most founders are flying blind on their finances—and how real-time visibility can mean the difference between running out of cash and reaching your next milestone.

Building the financial home for European founders thumbnail
Sep 17, 2025Company news

Building the financial home for European founders

"I had a £600,000 check and nobody would take my money."

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