--- title: How a Los Angeles Founder Replaced His Dutch Accountant... description: Philip Vasilevski, a Los Angeles founder who moved to Amsterdam, built an AI bookkeeping assistant called Mr. Bookkeeper on KiloClaw (Kilo's hosted version of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-a-los-angeles-founder-replaced-his-dutch-accountant-with-kiloclaw-tavikzxuk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How a Los Angeles Founder Replaced His Dutch Accountant with KiloClaw | daily.dev og:description: Philip Vasilevski, a Los Angeles founder who moved to Amsterdam, built an AI bookkeeping assistant called Mr. Bookkeeper on KiloClaw (Kilo's hosted version of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-a-los-angeles-founder-replaced-his-dutch-accountant-with-kiloclaw-tavikzxuk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TAVIkZXUk.png og:image:alt: How a Los Angeles Founder Replaced His Dutch Accountant with KiloClaw og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How a Los Angeles Founder Replaced His Dutch Accountant with KiloClaw **[Kilo Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/kilo-ai-blog)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Philip Vasilevski, a Los Angeles founder who moved to Amsterdam, built an AI bookkeeping assistant called Mr. Bookkeeper on KiloClaw (Kilo's hosted version of the open-source OpenClaw platform) to navigate Dutch accounting and tax bureaucracy. Faced with €200/hour accountant quotes and an incompatible proprietary platform, he used KiloClaw to create a persistent AI agent with access to the Moneybird accounting API, PDF invoice parsing, Dutch/English translation, and memory across sessions. The assistant handled purchase invoices, VAT categorization, payroll tax configuration, and eventually the quarterly VAT return — tasks initially flagged as requiring a human professional. A misconfigured 30% tax ruling was caught, saving ~€420/month. The post frames KiloClaw as a platform for building custom AI assistants tailored to any domain-specific administrative problem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Kilo Claw: Still the Best Way to Claw](https://daily.dev/posts/kilo-claw-still-the-best-way-to-claw-y7uaxvrbl) · Kilo Blog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [My bookkeeping runs on code now. 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