Helen Hastings wanted to create better accounting software. To figure out what to build, she had humans do the work. This is the story of how she created Quanta, the accounting software that’s taking on QuickBooks with a more modern human+software approach. <p><a href="https://mixergy.com/interviews/she-had-people-do-ais-work/"><img src="https://mixergy.com/interviews/she-had-people-do-ais-work/?get-twitter-card=true&amp;v=14&amp;time=1765981225" alt="" class="alignnone size-full"/></a></p><p>Helen Hastings is the founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.usequanta.com/">Quanta</a>, an AI-powered accounting platform built for modern software and services companies. Before <a href="https://www.usequanta.com/">Quanta</a>, she was a software engineer at Affirm, where she specialized in building financial ledgers and systems of record. She’s also worked at Google and NerdWallet, bringing deep fintech and infrastructure experience to one of accounting’s hardest problems.</p> <p>More interviews -&gt; <a href="https://mixergy.com/moreint" target="_blank">https://mixergy.com/moreint</a><br /> Rate this interview -&gt; <a href="https://mixergy.com/rateint" target="_blank">https://mixergy.com/rateint</a></p>