Light
Light is a Danish agentic ERP that puts one ledger, an app catalogue and AI agents in a single system, built for multi-entity, multi-currency groups that report under several accounting standards across 21 countries.
What is Light?
Light calls itself the agentic ERP: a system that records what a business does, adapts to it and then executes on it, where conventional finance systems stop at recording. Three components are presented as one product rather than three.
The first is the ledger. Every entity, every country and every currency sits in one place, and local statutory books are kept in parallel from the same entries, so US GAAP, IFRS, HGB and UK GAAP run side by side instead of being reconciled after the fact. An in-memory HTAP database is claimed for instant reporting, and the audit trail is immutable: each entry is posted once and frozen.
The second is the apps. Light publishes a catalogue of 676 one-click apps, among them 338 bank connections across 72 countries, 298 payroll and HR platforms, and 37 apps built by Light itself. They update themselves when the rules move, a mileage rate or a VAT change, so nobody has to patch a connector.
The third is the workforce. Executive agents such as the Bill Agent, the Contract Agent and the Accrual Agent chase invoices, match receipts, post accruals and draft the close memo. Read-only audit agents then check the executive agents' work and produce a monthly control report. Everything is bounded by policy: materiality thresholds decide what goes through automatically, what needs a controller's approval and what needs the CFO's, and the same limits apply to humans, apps and agents alike. Lighthouse is the control tower where agents, users, policies, integrations and workflows are administered.
Coverage is 21 countries natively for statutory books, VAT and e-invoicing, payments in more than 80 countries, and a claimed footprint across North America, Europe and APAC. The product is used from a web app, iOS and Android apps, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Sheets, and Claude through MCP.
The positioning is explicit: replace the legacy ERP and the Frankenstack of point solutions around it, rather than adding one more tool to the pile. Light is published from Copenhagen, and the way in is a sales demonstration, not a sign-up form.
What it does
- Keep one general ledger for every entity, currency and accounting standard at once
- Close the books continuously, with an agent drafting the close memo
- Read and post supplier invoices automatically, applying intercompany eliminations as entries are booked
- Pay suppliers in more than 80 countries
- Run corporate and virtual cards, expense claims and purchase requests
- Invoice customers, manage subscriptions and recognise revenue under IFRS 15 and ASC 606
- Produce e-invoices and VAT returns country by country, and report in real time through pivot tables or direct SQL
When to use Light / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Light is the right fit.
When to use Light
- Multi-entity groups that consolidate across several legal entities, currencies and accounting standards in a single ledger.
- Fast-growing companies between Series A and IPO, the band Light explicitly targets, where finance headcount stays flat while transaction volume climbs.
- Finance teams outgrowing single-entity bookkeeping tools such as Xero, QuickBooks or e-conomic.
- Organisations planning to retire a legacy ERP such as NetSuite, SAP, Workday or Sage, together with the point tools bolted around it.
- AI and SaaS companies, manufacturers, service businesses, marketplaces and e-commerce operators, the verticals Light names, with customers including Lovable (a four-person finance team on roughly 500 million dollars of revenue), Tillo (2 billion dollars of revenue, eight entities, 76% less close time), Legora (20 countries) and Ocean.io (60% shorter closes).
When not to use Light
- Individuals, freelancers and micro-businesses: Light is built for corporate finance departments, not for personal or one-person bookkeeping.
- Single-entity companies, which never touch the multi-book consolidation that justifies the platform.
- Buyers who need a published price before speaking to anyone: there is no pricing page, no rate card and no self-service sign-up.
- Teams that want to try before they commit, since no free plan and no product free trial is documented and the only route in is a sales demonstration followed by an Order Confirmation.
- Finance teams needing statutory books outside the 21 countries covered natively, or a product interface in a language other than English.
How to use Light
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Book a demo on the website: there is no online sign-up, and the public route in is a sales conversation.
- Agree commercial terms in an Order Confirmation, which sets the fees, the currency and the monthly or annual Service Period.
- Migrate the existing books through the native imports Light claims from Xero, QuickBooks, Fortnox, e-conomic, Billy, PE Accounting, Visma and Odoo. All Gravy moved six years of history and closed four countries in five days.
- Install the apps you need from the catalogue in one click: bank feeds, payroll, billing, tax.
- Set the policies, meaning the materiality thresholds that decide what posts automatically, what a controller approves and what the CFO approves.
- Turn on the executive agents so they chase bills, match receipts and post accruals, with read-only audit agents checking their work.
- Work day to day from Slack or Microsoft Teams, where photographing a receipt is enough to start an approval.
- Use the mobile app to approve, capture receipts and manage expenses away from the desk.
- Pull live figures into Google Sheets, or query the ledger, run reports, handle invoices, approve tasks and post entries from Claude over MCP, in plain language and with an audit trail.
- Describe additional agents in everyday language and let them run under their own identity; the free MIT-licensed CFO agent packs can be downloaded without an account.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Real statutory coverage in 21 countries: local books, VAT and e-invoicing, not a translated interface.
- SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports, both with an unqualified opinion and no exceptions, and the auditors are named: Prescient Assurance for SOC 2, AAFCPA for SOC 1.
- A contractual ban on training AI models on customer data, written into the DPA and extended to sub-processors.
- A published sub-processor list giving the location and purpose of each entry.
- Explicit agent governance: materiality thresholds, read-only audit agents and a monthly control report, with the same limits applying to humans, apps and agents.
- Many surfaces to work from: web, mobile, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Sheets and Claude over MCP.
- Compliance claims that can be checked: EU AI Act conformity under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, certification under the Danish bookkeeping act, a documented open API and a Lighthouse question-and-answer endpoint reachable without a key.
Cons
- No public pricing whatsoever: no pricing page, no range, no entry ticket. The /pricing path returns a 404, so the absence is proven rather than assumed.
- Neither a free plan nor a free trial is documented, and the only way in is a sales cycle: demonstration, then Order Confirmation.
- Commitment runs by Service Period with automatic renewal, sums already paid are non-refundable except on termination for Light's own breach, and late payments carry 1.5% interest per month.
- The product interface is documented in English only, while the marketing site is published in nine languages.
- ISO 27001 is not held by Light: the Trust Center itself labels it inherited from the hosting providers.
- The sub-processor disclosures contradict each other: the GDPR page says they are all based in the EU or EEA, while Exhibit 3 of the DPA places some in the United States and in India.
- Danish law and the courts of Copenhagen are imposed on the customer.
Pricing & Plans
There is no public price and no free plan on record. Light publishes no pricing page: the /pricing path returns HTTP 404, identical to a nonexistent path, no amount appears anywhere in the site's content, including llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and Light's own Lighthouse API returns no figure when asked about price. Pricing is set contractually rather than published. Clause 8.1 of the terms provides that all fees are set out in the Order Confirmation; clause 8.2 states that prices are denominated in the currency of that Order Confirmation and exclude VAT and other taxes; clause 2.2 makes the subscription monthly or annual according to the Service Period it defines. Payments are non-refundable unless the agreement is terminated for Light's breach, in which case a pro rata refund applies, and clause 8.6 charges 1.5% interest per month on late payment. A prospective buyer therefore obtains a figure only by booking a demonstration and receiving an Order Confirmation. Two free items exist but are not the platform itself: the CFO agent packs, released under the MIT licence, and a 14-day sandbox offered to app developers in Light Universe.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Light handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR implementation is documented in detail rather than merely asserted. Light Company ApS (CVR 43523503, Copenhagen) acts as processor for customer data under a published DPA, and as controller for its own website and marketing. The GDPR page was last updated on 10 July 2026 and the DPA on 7 August 2026. Personal data breaches are notified without undue delay and no later than 36 hours after discovery. Sub-processors are engaged under Article 28 clauses, with 30 days' notice before any change. International transfers follow Chapter V and occur only on the customer's documented instruction. Data subject rights are exercised at help@light.inc, and the supervisory authority named is the Danish Datatilsynet. No data protection officer is named, and no Article 27 representative is appointed, none being required for a publisher established in the EU.
Who owns the data?
The terms are unambiguous on ownership. Clause 11.1 states that your data stored via the Services is the property of You and shall constitute Confidential Information. The data processing agreement casts the customer as data controller and Light only as processor, acting on documented instructions. Clause 13.1 of the DPA gives the customer the right to access, extract and delete data from its own tenant, and Light undertakes to return or erase the data on request at the end of the contract. In practice the customer keeps both the title to its content and the technical means to remove it, without having to ask Light first.
Reuse rights
Customers can reuse their own data freely: the DPA lets them access, extract and delete anything held in their tenant without asking Light for permission, and Light is bound to return or erase it on request. On the publisher's side the restriction is explicit. Exhibit 1, section 7 of the DPA states that the Data Processor shall not, and shall procure that its Sub-processors shall not, use personal data processed under this DPA, or any content uploaded or transmitted via the Services, to train, fine-tune, or otherwise develop or improve any artificial intelligence model, including any general-purpose AI model or foundation model. Third-party AI services are called at inference time only, through APIs, inside controlled assisted flows, and Light states it has not opted in to any such training with its sub-processors. The personal data in scope is narrow: names, business email addresses, business phone numbers, job titles and office locations, plus the documents and content users upload. No special category data under Article 9 of the GDPR is processed. One caveat concerns the website rather than customer data: the robots.txt of light.inc carries Content-Signal directives that explicitly permit AI training on the site's own published content (search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes).
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The GDPR page describes EU-hosted infrastructure. Amazon Web Services, designated Cloud Service Provider in the DPA, hosts in Ireland; Vercel serves and delivers the front end from the EU (Dublin); Google Cloud EMEA Limited handles AI processing through Vertex AI and Gemini, located in Ireland according to the GDPR page, although Exhibit 3 of the DPA places it in Global (US/UK/EU/Asia). OpenAI supplies the AI model used on billing documents, in Europe. AMC Banking handles bank integration from Denmark, and Adyen issues virtual cards from the Netherlands as an independent controller. Three further sub-processors named in the DPA sit outside the EEA: Finch and Sentry in the United States, Antbox in India, which contradicts the GDPR page's claim that sub-processors are all based in the EU or EEA. International transfers are governed by Chapter V of the GDPR and, under the DPA, occur only on the customer's documented instruction. In short, the core of the platform is European and hosted in Ireland, but the full sub-processor list is not.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Light.
- Two legal entities. The terms and the DPA name Light Company ApS (CVR 43523503), but the iOS and Android apps are published by Light Company Holding ApS, which is also the sole founder registered at the Danish CVR. Check which entity you are actually contracting with.
- Contradictory sub-processor disclosures. The GDPR page states that sub-processors are all based in the EU or EEA and lists five; Exhibit 3 of the DPA lists twelve, placing Finch and Sentry in the United States, Antbox in India and Google Cloud Platform in Global (US/UK/EU/Asia). Both statements cannot be right.
- ISO 27001 is inherited, not held. The Trust Center itself files it under the label Inherited, meaning it comes from the hosting providers. It is not a certification of Light and should not be read as one.
- A second-hand domain. The first Wayback capture of light.inc, on 26 February 2021, is a resale listing reading light.inc is for sale, 1,999 USD on Great.inc, 19 months before the company was incorporated. The first capture of the real product site is 20 October 2022.
- Headcount gap. The Danish CVR records 11 employees while a July 2026 company blog post claims 100. The difference probably reflects the scope of the Danish entity, but it cannot be reconciled from public sources.
- No first-party funding disclosure. Funding amounts circulate in the trade press, but the site names no investor and the former announcement page now redirects to the blog. Treat those figures as press reporting, not as company statements.
- Two easy misreadings. The domain registrant country shown as the United States (Arizona) is GoDaddy's privacy proxy, not the publisher, which is Danish; and the robots.txt signal allowing AI training covers the website's published content, not customer data, which the DPA protects separately.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Light effort for the customer, but nothing is self-service. There is no sign-up: a demonstration precedes an Order Confirmation. Light claims native imports from Xero, QuickBooks, Fortnox, e-conomic, Billy, PE Accounting, Visma and Odoo, and sells going live in weeks rather than quarters against NetSuite and Workday, with dedicated implementation support and an account manager included. Officeguru signed seven days after its demonstration call; All Gravy migrated six years of history. Apps install in one click, with no new DPAs, no vendor onboarding and no implementation project, and custom agents are described in plain language, without an SDK.
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Alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick Light?
Light's coherence is its strongest argument. Where the market assembles an ERP and then bolts point solutions around it, Light ships a single system: the ledger, the apps and the agents are the same product, and the same materiality thresholds bind humans, apps and agents alike. That governance answers the question AI in accounting actually raises, which is not whether a machine can post an entry but who authorised it and who checked it.
The audit evidence is the second strength, and it is unusually concrete. SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 both carry an unqualified opinion with no exceptions, the auditors are named, read-only audit agents review the executive agents' work, and a control report lands every month. The ban on training models on customer data is written into the DPA rather than implied. One nuance matters: ISO 27001 is not Light's own, the Trust Center labelling it inherited from the hosting providers.
The blind spot is economic. Nothing about price is public, so no comparison is possible without going through sales, and buyers who expect to evaluate a system before speaking to anyone will find the door closed. Two smaller frictions sit alongside: the product interface is documented in English only, and the sub-processor disclosures contradict each other between the GDPR page and Exhibit 3 of the DPA.
The company is young, incorporated on 16 September 2022, but already audited and referenced by named, checkable customers such as Lovable, Tillo, Legora and Ocean.io. For a multi-entity group already committed to replacing a legacy ERP, Light deserves the demonstration. For anyone shopping on price, there is nothing yet to shop with.
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