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Accounting & Tax Software
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$5M
1 round on record
Latest round
$5M
Convertible Note · May 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
11
+1 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
19/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convertible Note | May 2025 | $5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Instead, LLC | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Andrew ArgueExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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How Instead hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Instead scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Instead is a financial technology firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, that specializes in artificial intelligence-powered tax management software. The platform automates tax research, planning, preparation, and filing workflows for accounting professionals, corporate teams, and individual taxpayers. By leveraging autonomous AI agents to parse complex tax codes and surface eligible deductions, the company enables clients to maximize tax savings while drastically reducing manual workload.
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Enforcing coding-agent guardrails in the runtime instead of the prompt
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Honor Acquires Home Instead to Transform Care Experience for Caregivers and Older Adults
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Instead over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Go
TypeScript
JavaScript
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
Tailwind CSS
Vue.js
LangChain
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Fargate
Amazon ECS
OpenAI
AI & ML
ChatGPT
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29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
People
Andrew Argue
Executive Officer
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
11
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
384 days
faster than 3% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
38% ▼
Product
25% ▼
Administrative
13% ▲
Analytics
13% ▼
Finance
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Gmail to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco
United States
HQ
Instead - SLC
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Product, Analytics
Salt Lake City
United States
Sales office
Instead - SLC
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance, Product
Bengaluru
India
Engineering / R&D
Instead - Remote
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, Design, HR
Hyderabad
India
Regional office
Instead - HYD
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for HR
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Financials
Total raised
$5M
Latest round
Convertible Note
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Convertible Note | 2025 | $5M | Details |