I BUILT CLERIYO BECAUSE I WAS TIRED OF PAPERWORK TIME WASTING

For years I owned and operated Banana Blossom — a small group of franchise restaurants. I loved almost all of it: the controlled chaos of a Friday lunch, the customers, the staff.

What I didn't love was spending my "days off" with paperwork instead of with family and friends.

Every week whenever I could find the time I'd sit with a stack of supplier invoices — Bidfood, produce, drinks, the POS subscription, a dozen others — and start figuring out what was what. Which account, what tax? Chase the invoice the statement swore existed. Watch chicken and shipping quietly get more expensive. About 2 hours, every single week, of work that needed a brain but felt like data entry.

The filing apps were fine at turning a photo into a draft — then they handed the real thinking straight back. They never learned. I'd code the same Bidfood bill the hundredth time, or wrestle a rule-builder for something I could explain in one sentence.

So I built what I actually wanted: something that reads every supplier bill when it lands, codes it the way my business really codes, and when it's wrong, lets me say so in plain English — “that's Kitchen, not Equipment” — and remembers. No setup theatre. No maintenance hobby. A little sharper every week.

Now weekly AP is about ten minutes. I look at what needs me. I approve. That's it.

I've made this for business but also for bookkeepers and accountants. Practice firms get the same idea at firm scale: you keep the client fee, hand the grind to Cleriyo, spend your talent on judgment and advice.