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Spend approvals your CFO will trust — and your team will actually use

Crest is an upcoming SaaS for policy-aware approvals, real-time budgets, and audit-ready trails. Replace the spreadsheet with one place finance and operators agree on.

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Built with teams who outgrew email + spreadsheets

  • Northwind Bio
  • Contoso Retail
  • Fabrikam Labs
  • AdventureWorks
  • Tailspin Toys

Everything in one approval surface

01

Policy engine

Route spend by amount, department, and category. No more “who signs this?” threads.

02

Live budgets

See committed vs. actual before you say yes. Syncs nightly from your ERP or hourly via API.

03

Slack & email

Approve, delegate, or request context where work already happens — with full audit metadata.

04

SSO & SCIM

Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace. Provision groups that map to approval chains.

05

Developer API

POST receipts, sync vendors, embed status in your internal tools — same JSON model as our UI.

06

Exports your auditor loves

Immutable decision log, CSV/Parquet pulls, and SOC 2–friendly access reviews from day one.

Inside the beta program

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    Design reviews

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    Customer research

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    Infra hardening

Designed for scale before we open the doors

Target uptime (design goal)
99.95%
Countries in pilot research
40+
Median time to first approval (beta)
<2 min
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From request to recorded decision — without leaving Crest

Submitters attach invoices or links; approvers see policy context, remaining budget, and prior decisions. Finance keeps the general ledger clean while operators move fast. Launching first for mid-market teams with NetSuite or QuickBooks Online — more ERPs on the roadmap.

Primary narrative

Why we are building Crest

We kept seeing the same pattern: great tools for payments, terrible tools for the human decisions before money moves. Crest is the approval layer — opinionated workflows, gentle defaults, and an API when you need to go custom.

Supporting detail

For finance & ops leaders

You get defensible controls without turning every purchase into a ticket storm. Roll out by team, region, or entity.

Launch principles

We are prioritizing depth over breadth: fewer integrations that work flawlessly, fewer knobs that require consultants. Early access customers help us harden policy templates for software, travel, and vendor spend.

Security is not a post-launch checkbox. Crest runs on isolated tenants, encrypts data at rest, and will publish our SOC 2 Type II report within six months of GA.

Simple tiers for the waitlist

Founding pricing for teams under 500 employees. Lock rates at signup.

Plan 01

Starter

$79/ month

  • Up to 25 active approvers
  • 2 policy packs
  • Slack + email
  • CSV export
Reserve Starter
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Plan 02

Growth

$249/ month

  • Unlimited approvers
  • SSO (SAML)
  • ERP sync (NetSuite / QBO)
  • API & webhooks
  • Priority support
Reserve Growth
Plan 03

Enterprise

Let’s talk

  • Multi-entity & FX
  • Dedicated success
  • Custom SLA
  • VPC option (roadmap)
Talk to sales

We piloted Crest with procurement and FP&A. For the first time approvers had the same numbers the close team used — no more exporting CSVs Friday night.

Jordan Ellis

VP Finance, Northwind Bio (pilot)

Waitlist FAQ

When can I get access?
We are onboarding design partners in Q2. Waitlist signups get monthly build notes and first shot at founding pricing.
Which countries?
US and EU entities at launch; additional regions based on demand from the waitlist.
Do you replace our ERP?
No — Crest sits before the ERP: approvals, policy, and audit trail. We sync committed spend back to your system of record.
Is there a free tier?
We plan a limited free tier for single-team use after GA; waitlist members get extended trials.

People behind Crest

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Maya Chen

CEO — ex-Stripe risk; two exits in fintech infra.

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Sam Okonkwo

CTO — led platform at a top-10 EU neobank.

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Riley Park

Head of Design — B2B workflow tools since 2012.

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Latest from the changelog

Integrations directory

Waitlist

Join the Crest waitlist — we read every note. Tell us your ERP and rough approver count.

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Ship approvals that hold up in audit

Reserve founding pricing and help shape the roadmap. Spots for design partners are limited.