About — 700 Valencia St, San Francisco
Not a firm that ghosts you after April — a small shop that shows up on the 8th, every month.
Basalt Ledger is a two-person bookkeeping practice on Valencia Street. We keep the books current, run payroll on time, and hand your CPA a packet that ties out — so nothing about your money is a surprise.
Closing rhythm
Books closed by the 8th
Pricing
Flat per engagement — no meter
Reply window
One business day, always
01 / How we got here
Basalt started with one bad tax season.
We spent years watching founders and freelancers open a finance app in a panic every March, scroll a wall of uncategorized transactions, and quietly hope for the best. That's not a workflow — that's a stress test.
So we built the opposite: real books, closed on a predictable schedule, in the software you already use. No forced migrations, no jargon dumps, no invoice that surprises you more than the IRS would. Just steady, tied-out numbers you can actually make decisions on.
We keep the client list small on purpose. The two of us do the work end to end, which is how a set of books stays consistent month after month instead of getting reinterpreted by whoever's free that week.
02 / What we hold to
Standards we won't quietly drop when it gets busy.
Think of these as the debits and credits of how we operate — non-negotiable entries, posted every month.
Entry 01
Closed on a calendar, not a whim
Every month is reconciled and closed by the eighth business day. Your numbers reflect last month — never a vague “sometime this quarter.”
Entry 02
Plain language over accounting theater
Statements come with a two-line human summary of what moved and why. If you need a glossary to read your own P&L, we did our job wrong.
Entry 03
The price is the price
One flat number per engagement, agreed before we start. No hourly meter ticking while you email over a receipt, no mystery line items at year-end.
Entry 04
Your stack, not ours
QuickBooks, Xero, Wave — we work in what you already run. We'd rather fit your business than make you re-learn a tool to fit us.
Entry 05
Tax season is pre-packed
Come April your CPA gets a clean, tied-out packet — 1099s, year-end statements, the works — so nobody's rebuilding a year at 2 a.m.
The people, not the persona
Two sets of eyes on every set of books.
No account gets handed off to whoever's free. The same two of us categorize, reconcile, and review your numbers month after month — which is exactly why they stay consistent and why a weird transaction actually gets noticed.
We keep the roster small so we can stay close to each client's rhythm: when your invoices spike, when payroll grows, when a slow month needs a heads-up before it becomes a problem.
See what we handle
By appointment · Valencia Street
Let's make your books the boring part of running a business.
Tell us where things stand — six months behind, payroll starting soon, or just tired of guessing. First scoping call is free, and we'll name the plan and the price before you commit.
Book a callOr call (650) 739-6937