# Proper Finance

*/Competitors/Proper_Finance*

## Overview

Proper Finance provides a unified reconciliation and ledger engine for fintechs handling high transaction volumes. It ingests data from payment gateways and banking endpoints, matching expected ledger entries against actual settled funds. Entrants in this space compete against this baseline by targeting the limitations of static, rules-based matching algorithms.

The recurring pain in payment operations lives in the exceptions. When bank file formats shift, partial refunds occur, or settlement batches fail to align, rigid matching rules break down. Finance teams manually export these unmatched transactions into spreadsheets to hunt for discrepancies across disparate payment systems.

This operational overhead makes reconciliation highly fertile ground for agentic software. Instead of relying solely on deterministic rules, an AI-native competitor reads unstructured bank records, parses dispute emails, and autonomously drafts ledger adjustments for human approval. The entry wedge relies on moving from a passive data ledger to an active financial controller.

## Breakdown

### Core Capabilities
- [Ledger Management](/Capabilities/Ledger_Management) — double-entry tracking
- [Payment Reconciliation](/Capabilities/Payment_Reconciliation) — automated matching
- [Financial Data Ingestion](/Capabilities/Financial_Data_Ingestion) — API-driven
- [Anomaly Detection](/Capabilities/Anomaly_Detection) — identifying discrepancies
- [Audit Trail Generation](/Capabilities/Audit_Trail_Generation) — compliance tracking

### Target Companies
- [Consumer Neobanks](/CompanyTypes/Consumer_Neobanks)
- [B2B Marketplaces](/CompanyTypes/B2B_Marketplaces)
- [Payment Service Providers](/CompanyTypes/Payment_Service_Providers)
- [Embedded Finance Platforms](/CompanyTypes/Embedded_Finance_Platforms)
- [Digital Lending Startups](/CompanyTypes/Digital_Lending_Startups)

### Financial Processes
- [Month End Close](/Processes/Month_End_Close)
- [Transaction Matching](/Processes/Transaction_Matching)
- [Payout Calculation](/Processes/Payout_Calculation)
- [Revenue Recognition](/Processes/Revenue_Recognition)
- [Balance Tracking](/Processes/Balance_Tracking)

### Target Users
- [Financial Controllers](/Occupations/Financial_Controllers)
- [FinOps Engineers](/Occupations/FinOps_Engineers)
- [Accounting Managers](/Occupations/Accounting_Managers)
- [Chief Financial Officers](/Occupations/Chief_Financial_Officers)
- [Fintech Product Managers](/Occupations/Fintech_Product_Managers)

## Diagrams

```mermaid
flowchart TD; A[Fintech Operations]-->B{Platform Selection}; B-->|Turnkey Ledger Architecture|C[Proper Finance]; B-->|Programmatic Extensibility|D[Subject Platform]; C-->E[Payment Reconciliation]; D-->E; C-->F[Data Normalization]; D-->F; C-->G[Balance Tracking]; D-->G;
```

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