FOR CFOS, COOS AND OPERATING PARTNERS

Agents that own the path from signed to billed.

Revenue slips before an invoice ever exists. Onboarding stalls, customers never start what they bought, and finished work never gets billed. Nerve steps in, owns that stretch end to end, then builds agents that keep owning it. You see every action, and messages to your customers wait for your approval.

Led by Patrick Hillstrom, an operator in finance, strategy and operationsBuilt on SOC 2 providers

The handoffs between signed and billed that nobody owns.

Sales owns the booking. Finance owns the invoice. The stretch in between belongs to everyone, so it moves only when someone has a free afternoon.

Signed to Live

Onboarding that drags

Kickoffs slip, credentials wait on someone, and the account goes quiet before it ever bills.

What we buildAn agent tracks every step, chases whoever owns the next one, and escalates before the account stalls.
Run at a customerAt a fintech, an agent ran each new customer's compliance checks, filed the evidence, and flagged only the exceptions.
Live to In use

Bought, never started

Customers sign for services or products they never get going on, so the revenue behind them never bills.

What we buildAn agent watches what each account actually uses, flags what it bought and never started, and drafts the nudge for the account owner.
Run at a customerAt a fintech, an agent read the customer book daily, flagged the accounts slipping or with room to grow, and drafted the outreach for approval.
Delivered to Billed

Work done, never invoiced

Jobs close in one system and billing runs off another, so some of the work never reaches an invoice.

What we buildAn agent matches what was delivered against what was billed and drafts the missing invoices for approval.
Contract to Invoice

Invoices that don't match the deal

Rates, quantities and terms drift from what was signed, so invoices go out wrong and come back disputed.

What we buildAn agent checks each invoice against the contract before it goes out and drafts the correction.

Once an invoice goes out, your AR team or AR software takes it from there. Nerve makes sure what they chase is right.

It starts with a Map.

An operator takes the seat first, then the agents take it over. You never buy software and hope someone runs it.

01

Map

A short, paid diagnostic. We trace real deals from signed to billed in your systems, read-only, and put a dollar figure on what is stuck and why.

Fixed fee
02

Own

Patrick takes the seat as a fractional operator and runs the function hands-on, so the agents learn how the work actually gets done, not the version on the org chart.

Flat retainer
03

Hand off

Agents take the work over one piece at a time. They draft, you approve, and they pull a person in only on a real exception. Every month more of the seat runs on its own.

Agents stay

You approve. The agents keep the receipts.

  • Messages to your customers wait for your approval.
  • Each action shows what the agent saw, what it did, and who signed off.
  • The Map runs read-only. After that, agents act through drafts you approve.
ACTIVITY LOG · TUESDAYEXAMPLE
09:14Found 3 delivered jobs with no invoice, drafts readyAgent
09:31Approved, invoices created in billingController
11:02An invoice rate doesn't match the signed order, correction draftedAgent
13:40Customer confirmed the kickoff date, onboarding step unblockedCustomer
14:05Onboarding idle for a week, escalated to the account ownerAgent

Start with the portfolio company where cash is hardest to see.

We run the Map there first and show you the number. If it holds up, the same playbook moves to the next company, and every agent keeps its receipts.

Talk through a portfolio company
  • One company, one Map, a dollar figure on what is stuck
  • Built for teams without engineers, with no build on their side
  • Messages to customers wait for the company’s approval

Patrick Hillstrom

Founder, Nerve

15 years in finance, strategy and operations. He steps into the seat, runs the work himself, and builds the agents that take it over, so he automates himself out of the job and the work keeps getting done.

More about Patrick →

Running everything yourself?

Nerve is also an AI Chief of Staff for founders who are the whole team. It reads your email, calendar and Slack, and closes the loops you don’t have time for.

Before you book

Do you need access to our systems?

For the Map, read access to the systems a deal passes through: your CRM, your billing system, and email. After that, agents act through drafts you approve.

Does this replace our finance team?

No. The agents do the tracking, checking and drafting. Your team keeps the decisions and can see everything the agents did.

What does it cost?

The Map is a fixed fee. After it, a flat monthly retainer priced against the revenue it gets billed, not the hours it takes.

Is Nerve still available?

Yes. Nerve at getnerve.ai is built by NerveLabs Inc., and it is live and taking signups. It is not affiliated with the Nerve team that joined OpenAI in February 2026.

Do I need a credit card?

Not for Lite, which is free. Pro and Operator start with a 7-day free trial that takes a card up front, and you can cancel anytime before it renews.

Find out what’s stuck between signed and billed.

One short diagnostic, read-only, with a dollar figure at the end.