About Control

Finance is being rebuilt around AI. We build the foundations.

Control is built in Helsinki by people who ran finance and built finance systems at their last companies. We build the layer that makes financial data usable, for people and for AI.

Finata OyThe Finnish company behind Control
Helsinki, FinlandFounded in 2024
ISO/IEC 27001:2022Certified information security management
Our story

AI is moving fast. Most finance data is not ready for it.

You cannot plug AI on top of raw numbers and expect it to understand group consolidation or the corner cases of accounting APIs. Someone has to keep the data clean, labelled, and live. That is the part we build with the finance teams who run on it: the foundation that lets them use what AI can do today, and what it will do next.

Control sits on top of your existing accounting systems. We pull the data, normalize it into a clean structure, handle multi-entity consolidation, and serve the result to reports, spreadsheets, and AI tools over MCP. No migration, no rip-and-replace. You keep your accountants, your processes, and your tools.

We build from Helsinki because Finnish growth companies hit these problems early. A small home market means international expansion comes fast, and multi-entity, multi-currency complexity arrives at Series A, not Series C.

Connectors
Netvisor, Procountor, Fortnox, Tripletex, Xero, QuickBooks, e-conomic, and CSV import.
Infrastructure
EU-hosted on Google Cloud in Hamina, Finland.
Setup time
Under two hours from first call to live data.
Contact
henri@control.dev
Our mission

AI is changing how finance operates. We want to be at the front of that shift, and we want our customers there with us.

Every company deserves finance infrastructure that matches the quality of the rest of its stack.

The team

Five people you will actually meet, and an R&D team in Helsinki behind them.

CEO · Customers Henri Sipilä

Runs the company and works with every customer. McKinsey and Smartly before Control. Brings his dog to every magazine photoshoot we end up in.

CTO · Tech Konsta Varonen

Heads technology. Full-stack developer with a fintech background. Former UN peacekeeper.

Product Riku Auvinen

Leads product. Built Smartly's finance systems as it scaled from 30 to 1,000 people and 1 to 20 entities, then Aiven and Robocorp. Excellent at every sport he tries.

Engineering Teemu Rytsölä

Leads engineering. Full-stack developer with finance-field and scaleup experience. Runs ultramarathons for fun.

Growth Antti Arvola

Runs growth. International SaaS sales background. Used to sell kitchens at Bed Bath & Beyond stores around LA. Played college football in California and futsal for the Finnish national team.

We take finance seriously.
Ourselves, less so.

A few posters from the office wall.

Talk EBITDA to me poster
Nice to meet you, reviewed 10,000 transactions poster
Before Control+C, after Control+DEV poster
Board meeting in 15 minutes poster
Month-end close, the horror movie poster

How we think

The standards behind how we build and work with customers.

01

The best people demand the best tools

Top finance teams do not tolerate bad infrastructure. They want automation that actually works, reporting that updates itself, and AI that gives specific EUR answers instead of vague summaries. We build for that standard, and our best customers hold us to it.

02

Specialization creates the most value

General-purpose tools produce general-purpose results. We do one thing: financial data infrastructure for single companies and multi-entity groups. Every product decision and support conversation is focused on that domain. Depth over breadth.

03

Solving problems is the job

We are happiest when a customer comes to us with a problem and we can fix it. Sometimes the fix is technical. Sometimes it is connecting two customers who share the same challenge, so they can learn from each other as peers.

04

Our customers make us better

The best companies push us forward. They test our assumptions, surface edge cases we missed, and force us to build for the real world, not just the demo. That feedback loop is the engine.

Backed by people who build

Early backing from investors who have built and run technology companies themselves.

Lead investor

Maki.vc

Nordic early-stage fund backing technical founders. Portfolio companies include ICEYE and Swappie.

Built in Finland

First Fellow Partners

Long-term backing from technology operators, including F-Secure founder and former Nokia chair Risto Siilasmaa.

Ready to upgrade your finance stack?

Book a demo and we will show you what your financial data looks like when it is properly connected. Thirty minutes, your actual numbers, no commitment.

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