Three Engineers From a HubSpot Acquisition Built AI That Replaces Financial Auditors

The Corporate Exit

Before Midship, these three were the product trio at Dashworks - a company they helped build and sell to HubSpot. Before that, their resumes read like a tour of Silicon Valley's biggest names: Instacart, Deloitte, Amazon, Lyft, Faire, PayPal.

After the HubSpot acquisition, they could have stayed. Instead, they looked at financial auditing and saw an industry ripe for AI disruption.

What Midship Actually Does

Midship automates SOX testing end-to-end. You give it a folder of 100 unorganized PDF documents and get a draft work paper in minutes instead of days. AI agents perform audit tests from plans written in natural language.

Already used by leading public companies, including a top social media platform and major fintechs.

Why Auditors Should Pay Attention

SOX compliance costs public companies $1.5-3M annually. The Big 4 firms bill $200-500/hour for audit work that is largely document review. Internal audit teams spend 80% of their time on data collection and testing, not judgment.

Midship's thesis: the testing part of auditing is mechanical. The judgment part is human. Separate them and automate the mechanical.

When three engineers who already built and sold a company to HubSpot choose financial auditing as their next target, they see something the market hasn't priced in yet.

The Breakout Pattern

Exit, learn, rebuild. The Dashworks team saw firsthand how enterprise SaaS scales. Now they're applying that playbook to a much bigger, much older industry.

That's the breakout.