Backing pleasefix.ai: $2.1M to Automate the Future of Finance and Strategy

Finance and strategy teams still spend countless hours fixing spreadsheets, decks, and memos.

The Belgian-American startup pleasefix.ai changes that. Not by introducing another system or workflow, but by delivering outcomes inside the tools teams already use. This is why we are proud to lead their $2.1M pre-seed round, alongside Syndicate One, Entrepreneurs First, Transpose Platform, 100IN, and experienced finance and strategy angels.

Execution disappears, outcomes remain

Most AI tools in the world of finance and M&A stop at recommendations. What happens next is still manual and time-consuming.

pleasefix.ai takes a different approach. Instead of introducing another system or workflow, it embeds AI directly into the tools finance teams already use. Professionals describe what they want in natural language, and pleasefix.ai carries it out directly in Excel, PowerPoint, and beyond.

pleasefix.ai is not improving finance workflows. They are removing execution as a bottleneck altogether. As the operational burden fades into the background, teams can focus on what actually matters: decisions and impact.

“AI was always going to take over execution in finance and strategy. pleasefix.ai doesn’t fight that reality - they embrace it. This is not a tool upgrade; it’s a category shift. Execution disappears, outcomes remain.” - Boris Bogaert, Founding Partner at Pitchdrive

Founders who know the pain

pleasefix.ai was founded by Séverine Nolf (CEO) and Maxime Lahy (CTO), both former McKinsey consultants. They experienced firsthand how operational drag slows down high-stakes finance and strategy work.

That same frustration echoes across the industry, and even within our own team at Pitchdrive."Having lived through investment banking, I know how much time is lost on formatting decks. I often worked until the early hours doing so. What was even more absurd was that we had an entire dedicated back-office team working through the night whose sole job was to polish slides. pleasefix.ai is exactly the product I would have wanted back then to eliminate that grind entirely." - Alexine Capiau, Partner at Pitchdrive

Stories like Alexine's and the founders' drive home the scale of the opportunity here. The pain is real, widespread, and solvable today.

The founders of pleasefix.ai accelerated through programs like Start it @KBC and Entrepreneurs First at Station F in Paris. From there, they moved to San Francisco to build close to global finance leaders. Today, they operate across Europe and the US, with engineering in Brussels (WAT) and commercial expansion accelerating stateside.

What’s next

With this round, pleasefix.ai will expand product capabilities, grow the engineering team, and accelerate adoption across Europe and the US.

We believe finance and strategy are entering an era where teams can focus on decision-making instead of operational busywork.

pleasefix.ai is building that future.