Ahad Ali, CPA Accountant turned tech founder. I spent over 10 years running Ahad&Co, a CPA firm, serving 1,200+ small business clients across New York. Every tax season, I saw the same pattern: a salon owner with 847 uncategorized transactions, a freelancer who overpaid $8,000 because they didn’t track expenses, a contractor leaving $28,000 in deductions on the table. They weren’t bad at business. The tools were just wrong. Traditional accounting software was built for accountants—not for the 70 million solopreneurs working 60-hour weeks without accounting degrees. And I realized: tens of millions of small business owners are about to switch to an AI accounting stack. Not because they want to—because they have to. So in 2025, I co-founded Tabby, an AI-powered bookkeeping platform that just works. We launched on Product Hunt in July 2025 and grew to thousands of users in months. Beyond building Tabby, I’m deeply involved in the small business community: → Working with the Chamber of Commerce to support local entrepreneurs→ Partnering with SCORE and SBA to provide resources for startups→ Collaborating with community organizations to help immigrant and underserved business owners access financial t
CEO & Co-Founder
Executive Board Member
Founding President
Bachelor's studies in accounting
