The year opens with eleven unsent invoices and a coat pocket full of receipts.
Every freelancer starts January the same way: promising this is the year the books stay clean. Meadow makes the promise stick by doing the filing itself.
Meadow sent, chased and reconciled all five without a single awkward email written by you.
The letter arrives. For once, you already know the number.
TAX AUTHORITY · REF 2026/Q1 · OFFICIAL
Dear taxpayer, your quarterly liability has been assessed as follows:
€2,214.00 — due 30 April
Payment instructions enclosed.
Meadow had €2,306 already set aside, moved automatically from every payment since January. The letter is a formality.
Nothing came in. Nothing was supposed to.
Forecast from your pipeline, back in June: 4.6 months of runway. So you took the holiday.
The year closes in an afternoon, not a lost weekend.
Everything earned, spent, owed and kept: one page, ready for your accountant. That is the entire product.
No card. €9/mo after. Books export as CSV, always.