No tool fit.
So we built our own.
Bilanzo did not come out of a market analysis but out of the frustration of an entrepreneur who kept his own books for years and never found a tool that was truly made for everyday SME life.
Who is behind it:
and what is Bilanzo?
The founder
Esteban Jones founded Mediaquotes in 2020 as a digital and event agency. He kept the books himself from day one and learned over the years what SME accounting software really needs to deliver: less overhead, more control, zero dependence on third-party servers.
The product
Bilanzo is an AI bookkeeping assistant for bexio users that runs entirely on your own hardware. Subscription-based, transparently priced, Swiss made. Your data never leaves your infrastructure. No cloud requirement, no backdoors.
The journey from need
to solution
Mediaquotes takes shape
Esteban Jones founds Mediaquotes as a digital and event agency focused on AV technology, video production and event software. He keeps the books himself from the start, consistently.
Growth, first structure
The company grows and an HR structure emerges. Esteban remains his own bookkeeper. The available tools do not keep up: too generic, too far from everyday SME life.
External support: BDO
The growing workload calls for reinforcement. Esteban books occasional consulting hours with the head of a BDO branch. A crutch, but not a solution.
External supportFirst revenue milestone & AV division
Mediaquotes reaches its first significant revenue milestone. Bookkeeping is now shared with an employee. At the same time: launch of the AV division with technology, equipment and installation from a single source.
MilestoneThe fiduciary: an expensive lesson
A professional fiduciary is hired. The promised services are not delivered. A painful setback that forces Esteban to take back control himself. And one that lays the foundation for Bilanzo.
Setback30-day marathon: Bilanzo V1
Four developers, one goal, 30 days non-stop. Bilanzo V1 is built as a cloud-based SaaS architecture. The individual modules run, but they are too isolated and the integration too loose. V1 is never completed or released.
The decisive insight: customers already have the computing power in their own business.
Sprint stats
Esteban starts V2. Alone.
With the lessons from V1, Esteban starts Bilanzo V2 from scratch: local, rethought from the ground up, no cloud requirement. His own bookkeeping serves as a living prototype: every function is tested in real everyday use before it goes into the product.
Lawsuit won. Bilanzo V2 launched.
Exactly two weeks pass after the lawsuit against the fiduciary is won. Then Bilanzo V2 is ready: mature, local, subscription-based.
Out of lived pain came the tool Esteban himself had been looking for for years, and which is now available to every SME.
V2: liveWhat drives us
Local first
Bilanzo runs on your infrastructure, not on our servers. Your data never leaves your premises. No cloud requirement, no backdoors.
From practice
Every function was first tested in Mediaquotes’ own bookkeeping. No feature without a real use case.
Transparently priced
A clear subscription model, no hidden fees, no lock-in. You always know what you pay and what for.
Take back
your bookkeeping.
Local, bexio-integrated, subscription-based, built by someone who knew the problem first-hand.
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