Winter 2019

Caribou

The autonomous tax firm

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What they do

autonomous tax firm: graphs a company, then fixes tax and legal issues

How close to us

3, close

builds an Atlas model of the business and implements fixes; finance buyer at scale-ups, but tax-only, no agent team

Wedges

  • W7 Find and fix margin leaks adjacent
L1 Company brain (knows the organisation) 2, clear
L2 Agent team (runs agents, tools, approvals) 1, light
L3 Does and learns (finishes, checks, measures, updates the brain) 2, clear

Who buys

Firm size
sme
Buyer type
business
Role
finance chief or founder
UK
not known
Their own description (from YC)

Going global is now the norm. But the moment you set up an entity in another country, you inherit a tax and legal mess that compounds with every hire and every invoice.

For example, one jurisdiction has to be profitable, cash has to move between entities compliantly, and every cross-border decision has to be audit-ready, which today means a different law firm in each country, a tax advisor on top of that, and you coordinating the chaos.

The real expertise is locked up inside the Big Four. The world's largest companies pay millions a year for access. Everyone else gets selective coverage and hefty legal bills to half-solve the problem.

Caribou is the first autonomous tax firm. No lengthy workshops, no months of back-and-fort; connect your finance and HR systems and we graph your business — every entity, process, and employee — into a model we call the Atlas.

From there we check transfer pricing, surface legal risks you didn't know you had, maximise your R&D credits, and monitor for accidental taxes as your shape changes.

And we don't just hand you a report. We speak to your accountants, draft the legal agreements, and implement the fix ourselves. We've turned an
eight-week engagement into three hours.

Why work with three firms when one does the job?

We're already working with fast-growing companies like Butternut Box, OpenFX, Encord, Vertice, Omnea, and Hadrian - we've saved them hundreds of thousands on legal fees and surprise tax bills.

Full teardown

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