Solvo. Latin for "I solve."
No corporate story full of dots on horizons. Just this: why Solvo exists, who is behind it, and the four principles every entry passes before you see it.
Solvere means to solve, to settle — and to set free. Someone whose affairs are in order is called solvent in the books. Same root, same idea.
from now on, Solvo keeps this cash book for you
Bookkeeping costs entrepreneurs their evenings. We didn't think that was normal.
the homework only got a sharper suit
You became an entrepreneur to practise your craft — not to decipher receipts on a Tuesday evening and guess whether something is 21% or reverse-charged. Yet that is what the books are for most freelancers and small businesses: the work after the work.
Most "smart" software doesn't solve that. It doesn't take the work off your plate — it moves it: from the shoebox to a dashboard, from paper to a list saying "34 transactions left to categorise".
Solvo is built on the opposite promise: the work really does leave your plate. You import your bank statement, and reading, recognising, booking and reconciling have already happened before you sign in. What remains is confirming — and the quiet feeling that it's right.
Built from the craft, not from a pitch deck.
a grootboek (general ledger) should balance — every day
Behind Solvo is a real bookkeeping specialist — someone who knows how a grootboek (general ledger) should balance and why an audit trail is no luxury. That craft is baked into the product: double-entry bookkeeping, journal entries that balance to the cent, period locks, a trail of every action. Under every button sits an entry that is right — or it isn't made.
Just as important is what Solvo is not: Solvo gives no tax or legal advice. For those questions you have your own advisor or specialist — and you simply invite them into your administration, with their own role and the same figures. Review bundle and audit file are ready with one click.
That's how we think the division of labour should be: Solvo does the handwork and keeps the figures right, your advisor advises, and you run your business.
Four principles, in every layer of the product.
They may sound obvious. That's exactly the point — and exactly what a lot of software doesn't do.
Deterministic first
The familiar is booked by explainable rules and by what Solvo has learned from yóu. Only when those don't know the answer may AI make a proposal — strictly bounded to accounts and VAT codes that actually exist. Doubt isn't guessed; it's put to you.
The check is never skipped
Every proposal — from a rule, memory or AI — passes the same deterministic check: does the account exist, is the VAT right, does the entry balance to the cent. Plain code, no AI. Whatever fails the check, you never see as "ready to post".
Your data is yours
Your books live encrypted in the EU, isolated down to the database, and you can export them in full at any moment in open formats — audit file and all. Switching is a right, not a fight.
…and you keep the final word.
Nothing is ever posted definitively without your confirmation. Solvo does the work; the signature stays yours. And above the amount you set, a second pair of eyes is required — just like in a real finance department.
Enough about us.
About your evenings.
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