The short version
Rillet looks great. Campfire works great — especially once your accounting gets complex, your entity count grows, or you start thinking about an audit.
Multiple companies have switched from Rillet to Campfire. Here's why.
What customers say
"We were using Rillet for our revenue subledger, but after an extensive RFP we chose Campfire. Campfire's advanced AI capabilities and product velocity match our ethos and the pace of our growth, with the added benefit of extensive financial metrics, higher-touch support, and a cleaner UX." — Libby Francke, Finance & Accounting, Klarity
"We were growing so fast — expecting to IPO in the next few years — that we felt we needed a more robust ERP. Rillet just felt behind in this area. Campfire's 1,000+ granular permissions and restrictions settings, global audit log, and customizable approval workflows made us feel way more comfortable passing a Big 4 internal control audit." — 100+ person Series C company
"Campfire is modern, flexible, and has an intuitive design that makes day-to-day tasks less of a grind. Campfire's AI automates your reconciliations, flags anomalies, and helps draft reports. It's a real game changer." — Ryan Ang, Controller, Decagon (switched from Rillet after 1 year)
Where Campfire wins
AI depth — Campfire's Accounting Intelligence is a proprietary foundation model trained on real GL transactions. It hits 95% accuracy on transaction categorization. Rillet's AI is focused on adjustments to existing reports — they wrapped a language model around their database. We built AI for accounting from scratch.
Multi-entity and subsidiary management — Campfire customers are managing 80+ subsidiaries. Campfire handles multiple layers of subsidiaries, including subs of subs. Rillet's subsidiary reporting only goes one layer deep — customers with sub-parents need a separate Rillet license.
Internal controls and IPO readiness — Campfire has 1,000+ distinct permission and restriction settings, allowing public and enterprise customers to pass ITGC audits from Big 4 accounting firms. Campfire is the only next-gen ERP with public company customers. Rillet deprioritized internal controls to focus on AI auto-booking — without proper approvals.
Budget vs. actuals — Campfire users can create unlimited custom budgets broken out by department and entity. Ember AI runs deep BvA analysis. Rillet's budgeting capability is significantly more limited.
API access — Campfire has the most detailed and tested public API documentation, with hundreds of endpoints. Campfire customers are building custom integrations with Palantir, Snowflake, AWS, and more. Rillet's APIs are not public and are limited in what they can access. Any customer who eventually needs APIs has gone with Campfire.
Support — Campfire's team is in-office in New York and San Francisco. Direct engineering access, US-based, 2-hour average issue resolution time. Rillet uses a distributed workforce with overseas engineering resources.
The pattern
The companies that switch from Rillet to Campfire tend to be at an inflection point: raising a Series C, preparing for an audit, adding entities, or starting to think about IPO. Rillet works for upper SMBs. Campfire is built for the company you're becoming.
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