PaySpotter

The company

Who you’re trusting with your clients

You’re considering letting us email the people who owe you money, in your name. You should know exactly who you’re dealing with before you do.

Ben Shaw, founder of PaySpotter
Ben ShawFounder · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Who builds it

A team of engineers — Pitt and Ohio State graduates — who know software and know how a business actually runs. We spend part of our time inside an operating business: quoting work, costing jobs and waiting on the invoices that pay for both. PaySpotter comes from watching money move through a real company every week, not from reading about it.

How to reach us

Mail goes to the people who wrote the code, not to a support queue. That is why it gets answered the same day, and why a fix usually ships that week rather than being filed as feedback and reviewed next quarter. If something we sent to one of your clients reads wrong, we want to hear it from you before we hear it from them.

Where we are

Built in Pittsburgh

Carnegie Mellon is twenty-five minutes away and the city has quietly become one of the places this kind of software gets built — robotics, language models, payments infrastructure, all of it within a few miles. It’s also a region full of the businesses this is for: fabrication shops, contractors, suppliers, where the person chasing the invoice is the same person who ran the job. We didn’t have to imagine the customer. We grew up around them.

What we stand for

The lines we won’t cross

Written down because they’re easier to hold to in public.

Every message earns its place

Each reminder was read out loud and argued over before it shipped. Anything that sounded like a threat, blamed the recipient, or implied something we couldn't back up got cut. The people being chased are people you want to keep working with, and nothing we send should cost you that relationship to recover one invoice.

Your money stays yours

We don't take a cut of what you recover, hold your money, add fees, threaten anyone, sell your data or your clients', or report anyone to a credit bureau. Every one of those would make a better business on paper and a worse one to be a customer of.

We're here to grow what you built

Getting paid faster is working capital you already earned — it funds the next hire, the next machine, the next job you couldn't float before. That's the point of this. We do better when you're bigger next year than you are now, which is the only incentive we want pointed at your business.

People decide. Tools help them decide better

We will use any tool that makes us better at finding your money — which invoice needs attention first, which approach actually gets one paid, what the pattern across a year of your ledger really says — and we expect to use more of them as they get good. What no tool gets is the last word on what reaches your client. A person stands behind every message sent in your name, and that is not a step we are looking to automate away.

You always know where you stand

We're early, and we say so: no phone line yet, no 24-hour support, no CRM integration, and QuickBooks Online is the only accounting system connected so far. Better said here than discovered in month two.

Ask anything before you connect a thing

ben@payspotter.com — no sales call, no demo booking, no chain of follow-ups. Just an answer.

PaySpotter LLC · Greensburg, PA