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How MoonPay's Entendre Turns Accountants From Doers Into Reviewers

With Kareem Khattab

Key takeaways

  • MoonPay acquired Entendre, the AI accounting platform for the stablecoin economy, in June 2026, and founder Kareem Khattab became its VP of Applied AI.

  • Entendre is announcing TaxBench, its first public benchmark, which tests whether AI models can take a CPA's inputs through a full tax return.

  • Kareem Khattab predicts that by 2030 accounting will happen over text messages, and says AI founders have to compete with Anthropic, not legacy vendors.

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Summary

Khattab wants AI agents to do the bookkeeping while accountants review it, and he says the company to beat is a frontier lab, not a legacy software vendor.

MoonPay acquired Entendre, the AI accounting platform for the stablecoin economy, in June 2026. Founder Kareem Khattab became MoonPay's VP of Applied AI as part of the deal. In the interview he set out his plan for agents to do the accounting work while people review it.

From doers to reviewers

"Our whole goal here is to make it easy for accountants to basically go from doers to reviewers," Kareem Khattab said, describing how Entendre automates whatever workflows are unique to each finance team. He says the company does not measure itself against older software. It measures itself against what he calls a "super AI pilled accountant" working in Claude directly, and asks whether it can be faster, more accurate and more efficient than that person.

“It's really anthropic that you have to compete again... If you can beat OpenAI and Anthropic, you're a unicorn.”
Kareem Khattab

A benchmark built on tax returns

Entendre is announcing TaxBench, its first public benchmark. It tests whether AI models can take a CPA's inputs through a full tax return. Kareem Khattab said the workflow covers the whole tax return process, including data entry into tools that have no API, such as ProConnect. He called data "a trillion dollar market" and said much of it sits behind enterprise walls.

Into money movement

Kareem Khattab said Entendre never got into money movement before it joined MoonPay. With MoonPay's infrastructure and teams like Iron, he expects it to move into cash management and transfers between accounts soon. He said his customers have hundreds of wallets, hundreds of bank accounts and a number of legal entities, often only a few years after they launch.

Headless accounting by 2030

Kareem Khattab predicts that by 2030 accounting will be headless. In his view, founders will ask about P&L, burn and runway over iMessage, talking to a Siri-type assistant and getting answers back by text.

Kareem Khattab does not see older vendors as the competition. "The legacy players in your field are not really your competition," he said. "It's really Anthropic that you have to compete again." He added that a founder who can beat OpenAI and Anthropic will build a unicorn. That standard is behind both TaxBench and Entendre's plans inside MoonPay.

MoonPay, Entendre, Fable, and Anthropic come up most.

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