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Brian Claire: He Built a Payroll App Prototype in 10 Minutes
Brian Claire runs Blueprint Accounting, a seven-person firm in Ottawa, and got tired of payroll tools built for one business at a time. He summarized a Slack thread in Claude, pasted it into Cursor, and had a working prototype in ten minutes. Six months later he had paying clients. Now he’s COO of Nooma, a payroll and HR platform for accounting firms, with a CEO, a CTO, and a funding round underway.
In this episode:
→ From psychology degree to accountant to tech founder
→ The 10-minute prototype, and the two years of tinkering that made it possible
→ Surveying 60 firms and finding they each…
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