LanceLab is a finance dashboard for people who hate accounting. Drop in the receipts, bank exports and spreadsheets you already have, and get a clear picture of each month.
Freelancers, solo consultants and small agencies of one to five people, with Portugal as the first market. Income arrives from direct clients, payment platforms and marketplaces. Expenses are spread across subscriptions, tools, travel and hardware. LanceLab is for people who want to know whether the month went well without learning double-entry bookkeeping or keeping a spreadsheet alive.
A spreadsheet answers the question only if every payment and every receipt makes it into the right row. Miss a few weeks and the next review turns into a hunt through bank exports, receipt photos and downloaded PDFs. Leave it until tax time and you only find out how the business was doing months after it mattered.
Accounting software solves a different problem. It assumes a chart of accounts and someone who knows how to keep it. LanceLab is deliberately narrower. It organises income, expenses and the documents behind them by month. It does not do accounting, issue invoices or file taxes, and it has no tax authority integration. Your accountant still does the accounting, and gets a cleaner month to work from.
Everything rolls up by month, in one currency per account. Steps one to four and the export work in development today. The dashboard view in step five is still planned.
Each card says whether the piece exists in code today or is still a plan. Built means it runs in development, not that it is open to the public.
A document-reading AI model recognises faturas, receipts and statements and extracts date, vendor, amount and IVA rate. It was tested on real Portuguese receipts and faturas. Results wait in a review queue, and a receipt needs a date before it can be confirmed.
A confirmed receipt cannot be edited. Unconfirming it requires a written reason, so there is a trail of what changed and why. Deleted entries are hidden, not destroyed.
CSV and XLSX imports skip the bank's preamble rows, cope with dot or comma decimals and thousands separators, and save the column mapping as a profile for next month. A whole import can be undone. Statement PDFs are read by column position, and where the statement prints balances the movements are checked against them.
One ZIP per month with income and expense lists formatted for Portuguese Excel and the original receipt files. Every export is recorded with what it contained.
Income, expenses and profit for the month, a six-month trend, top clients, top expense categories and the receipts still waiting for review. This is the screen LanceLab is named for, and it is not built yet.
Voting on feature cards already works inside the app. A public roadmap on the website, open to votes before sign-up, is planned. Bank sync, payment platform sync, multi-currency, a mobile app and help with IVA and Segurança Social will be built only if the votes show real demand.
LanceLab is coming soon. Document intake, review, imports, the accountant export and in-app voting run in development. The dashboard, plans and billing, and GDPR account deletion with a full data export are still to be built. It is not open for sign-ups and there is no launch date.
If you work for yourself and this sounds like your month, tell us how you keep track today. Real workflows decide what gets built first.
LanceLab is not open yet. Tell us how you track your income and expenses today and what you would want from a monthly view.