Pilot API
No outbound API. Pilot is a bookkeeping service; integrations flow inbound from QuickBooks, Gusto, Stripe, and banks. Third-party access exists only via bilateral fintech partnerships, though the books live in QuickBooks Online, so customers keep a QBO bypass.
Frequently asked questions
Pilot scores C+ on the API Report Card. No outbound API. Pilot is a bookkeeping service; integrations flow inbound from QuickBooks, Gusto, Stripe, and banks. Third-party access exists only via bilateral fintech partnerships, though the books live in QuickBooks Online, so customers keep a QBO bypass.
Pilot has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Pilot (pilot.com) is a San Francisco-headquartered outsourced bookkeeping, tax, and CFO-services company for startups and small businesses, founded in 2017 by Waseem Daher, Jeff Arnold, and Jessica McKellar (the same trio behind Ksplice and Zulip).
Vertical: Accounting/Tax/Audit (Financial Services sub-sector). Monthly bookkeeping: categorization of bank/credit-card transactions, reconciliations, and accrual or cash-basis financial statement preparation.
High brand recognition within the venture-backed startup ecosystem; mid recognition in the broader SMB market.
Customer business transactions: bank/credit-card feeds (via QBO/Plaid), categorized line items, GL coding, attached receipts/invoices, reconciliation state. Chart of accounts, class/location/department dimensions (as supported by QBO).
Founded 2017, ~9 years old as of 2026. Modern company by US bookkeeping-firm standards (most competitors are legacy CPA firms or pre-2010 bookkeeping shops), but a contemporary of Bench (2012) and Botkeeper (2015) on the tech-forward end.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.