Brian KellyFounder, Kellcat
About Kellcat
Rent comes in, orders ship, and jobs get paid. You’ve built something real. But your books are behind, your numbers live in five different apps, and you still can’t tell if you’re getting ahead.
Kellcat gives you clean books, a live dashboard, and a plain-English summary of what changed, so you always know where you stand and can decide where to go next.
Where Kellcat began
In 1980, Brian’s mother opened her own CPA practice. For more than 30 years, she helped business owners and families with their taxes, their plans, and the numbers behind them.
Tax season there was always full. Phones rang at the front desk, finished returns were assembled into neat packages for pickup, and the lobby chairs filled with business owners, each holding a folder with a whole year of their business inside.
Brian worked in the back office, entering those numbers into the tax software and QuickBooks Desktop. But the real work happened in the conference room. That’s where his mother sat with each client and talked about money, taxes, and whatever was happening in their lives, until the numbers in that folder finally made sense.
She came home with their stories, and Brian learned what she already knew: the job isn’t done when the numbers are right. It’s done when the owner understands them.
His mother, the original Kellcat.
Her ruleNumbers should never feel complicated, or like a foreign language.
Years later, Brian kept meeting owners who were making money but still felt lost. The folder had become five different apps, and nobody was sitting down with them to explain what it all meant.
By then he had spent more than 11 years as an aerospace software engineer, where nobody flies on instruments they can’t trust. So Kellcat brings both worlds together: his mother’s gift for making numbers make sense, and an engineer’s system that keeps them right.
The result is a GPS for your business, so you always know where you stand.
Brian Kelly has spent more than 20 years around accounting, starting in his mother’s CPA practice, and more than 11 years as an aerospace software engineer. Kellcat is built on both: the accountant’s care for getting every number right, and the engineer’s habit of building systems that keep them right.
Grew up in the back office of his mother’s CPA practice, entering client books and returns, including bookkeeping for restaurant and transportation businesses.
11+ years building aerospace software, where systems have to be tested, documented and right every time.
Designs accounting setups for startups on Stripe Connect, Puzzle and Mercury, including ASC 606 revenue recognition.
Connects accounting to the rest of the business with Zapier, Make, n8n, APIs and webhooks, and builds live dashboards in Databox.
Works in: QuickBooks Online, Xero, Puzzle, Databox, Klipfolio, Google Sheets, Gusto, Ramp, Bill.com, Shopify, Square, Stripe, Mercury, Relay and Bluevine.
What Kellcat does
Three layers that work like a GPS for your business: an accurate signal, a clear view of where you are, and a route to where you want to go. Your dashboard shows trouble in sales or operations weeks before it reaches your bank account, so you can adjust while there’s still time.
An accurate signal.
When your books are right, every direction is right.
To start
Every month
Best for: Owners whose books are behind, or who need a bookkeeper.
You are here.
Clean Books tells you what happened. Clear Picture shows you why, and what to do next.
To start
Every month
Best for: Owners whose books are handled, but who can’t see how the business is really doing.
The route.
See your cash coming, and steer before problems hit.
To start
Every month
Best for: Owners who want to see problems coming, not find out after the cash is gone.
How getting started works: Setup is two separate one-time steps, a books cleanup (only if you need one) and your dashboard build. Already have a bookkeeper? Clear Picture and Confident Decisions work with the bookkeeper you have, at a lower price. Pricing is shared after your free Discovery Call.
What changes for you
Revenue is coming in, but your financial system hasn’t caught up to the business you’ve built. Here’s what that changes, every month.
Questions you can answer
What you can expect
If your reports confuse you, the reports are the problem, not you.
Who Kellcat works with
Based in Littleton, Colorado, serving the south Denver metro and clients nationwide. View service areas →
Twenty years of accounting and eleven of software engineering show up in the work itself. The portfolio has real projects, with client names withheld.
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Ready when you are
Start with a free 30-minute Discovery Call, or a free Books & Numbers Review of your books and top six numbers. Either way, you get an honest recommendation and a written proposal. No pressure.
Not ready to talk yet? Take the free Financial Clarity Check →
Brian KellyFounder, Kellcat
About Kellcat
Rent comes in, orders ship, and jobs get paid. You’ve built something real. But your books are behind, your numbers live in five different apps, and you still can’t tell if you’re getting ahead.
Kellcat gives you clean books, a live dashboard, and a plain-English summary of what changed, so you always know where you stand and can decide where to go next.
Where Kellcat began
In 1980, Brian’s mother opened her own CPA practice. For more than 30 years, she helped business owners and families with their taxes, their plans, and the numbers behind them.
Tax season there was always full. Phones rang at the front desk, finished returns were assembled into neat packages for pickup, and the lobby chairs filled with business owners, each holding a folder with a whole year of their business inside.
Brian worked in the back office, entering those numbers into the tax software and QuickBooks Desktop. But the real work happened in the conference room. That’s where his mother sat with each client and talked about money, taxes, and whatever was happening in their lives, until the numbers in that folder finally made sense.
She came home with their stories, and Brian learned what she already knew: the job isn’t done when the numbers are right. It’s done when the owner understands them.
His mother, the original Kellcat.
Her ruleNumbers should never feel complicated, or like a foreign language.
Years later, Brian kept meeting owners who were making money but still felt lost. The folder had become five different apps, and nobody was sitting down with them to explain what it all meant.
By then he had spent more than 11 years as an aerospace software engineer, where nobody flies on instruments they can’t trust. So Kellcat brings both worlds together: his mother’s gift for making numbers make sense, and an engineer’s system that keeps them right.
The result is a GPS for your business, so you always know where you stand.
Brian Kelly has spent more than 20 years around accounting, starting in his mother’s CPA practice, and more than 11 years as an aerospace software engineer. Kellcat is built on both: the accountant’s care for getting every number right, and the engineer’s habit of building systems that keep them right.
Grew up in the back office of his mother’s CPA practice, entering client books and returns, including bookkeeping for restaurant and transportation businesses.
11+ years building aerospace software, where systems have to be tested, documented and right every time.
Designs accounting setups for startups on Stripe Connect, Puzzle and Mercury, including ASC 606 revenue recognition.
Connects accounting to the rest of the business with Zapier, Make, n8n, APIs and webhooks, and builds live dashboards in Databox.
Works inQuickBooks Online, Xero, Puzzle, Databox, Klipfolio, Google Sheets, Gusto, Ramp, Bill.com, Shopify, Square, Stripe, Mercury, Relay and Bluevine.
What Kellcat does
Three layers that work like a GPS for your business: an accurate signal, a clear view of where you are, and a route to where you want to go. Your dashboard shows trouble in sales or operations weeks before it reaches your bank account, so you can adjust while there’s still time.
An accurate signal.
When your books are right, every direction is right.
To start
Every month
Best for: Owners whose books are behind, or who need a bookkeeper.
You are here.
Clean Books tells you what happened. Clear Picture shows you why, and what to do next.
To start
Every month
Best for: Owners whose books are handled, but who can’t see how the business is really doing.
The route.
See your cash coming, and steer before problems hit.
To start
Every month
Best for: Owners who want to see problems coming, not find out after the cash is gone.
How getting started works: Setup is two separate one-time steps, a books cleanup (only if you need one) and your dashboard build. Already have a bookkeeper? Clear Picture and Confident Decisions work with the bookkeeper you have, at a lower price. Pricing is shared after your free Discovery Call.
What changes for you
Revenue is coming in, but your financial system hasn’t caught up to the business you’ve built. Here’s what that changes, every month.
Questions you can answer
What you can expect
If your reports confuse you, the reports are the problem, not you.
Who Kellcat works with
Based in Littleton, Colorado, serving the south Denver metro and clients nationwide. View service areas →
Ready when you are
Start with a free 30-minute Discovery Call, or a free Books & Numbers Review of your books and top six numbers. Either way, you get an honest recommendation and a written proposal. No pressure.
Not ready to talk yet? Take the free Financial Clarity Check →