Management Consultant · Tailwind Labs, Inc.

Alejandro Letayf

Leading operations at Tailwind Labs => Ai & Crypto Startup

Operations Expert currently working on:

Office Management > On top of the people, the place, and the vibes.

Accounting > Making sure our books, both crypto and fiat, are up to date.

Payroll > Running both national and international payroll in both fiat and crypto.


82%Reduction in accounting spend through automation
50,000Transactions reconciled
7Ledgers unified: 3 chains, 4 traditional finance
50Office crashers/invites
24moLease extension negotiated
4Core systems implemented
01

Financial reconstruction

Fifty thousand transactions scattered across three chains and four traditional finance products, with no single source of truth.

  • Tested three accounting platforms before settling on one that could hold the data
  • Engaged four accounting teams. Three walked away citing the complexity of the project
  • Built an AI-supervised review layer over the accounting process to catch and correct classification errors at volume
  • Cut accounting expenditure by 82 percent
02

Systems of record

Replaced ad hoc process with software that enforces the policy on its own.

  • Ramp for expense control process and written spend policy
  • Gusto configured as the company default payroll system
  • Pulley for the cap table, set up and maintained
  • QuickBooks as the ledger everything else reconciles into
03

Treasury

Moving money out of a multisig and into a form an accountant will sign off on.

  • Pulled down funds from the multisig treasury and managed the operating crypto accounts
  • Tracked every crypto account and imported the activity into QuickBooks
04

Compliance and the city

Bringing a San Francisco building into compliance, and answering the agencies that ask.

  • Brought the building up to San Francisco Fire Department compliance
  • Worked the Department of Building Inspection process to move it through
  • Handled city notices and IRS notices as they arrived
05

The office itself

A landlord who did not want to renew, and a room that had to work on Monday.

  • Negotiated a two year lease extension with an unwilling landlord at a minimal rent increase
  • Sourced desks and monitors, installed wifi routers and security cameras
  • Kept the office stocked: cleaning supplies, snacks, paperwork
  • Rearranged the space as the team and the events grew
06

People through the door

The office runs two products and hosts the community around them.

  • Organized and hosted hackathons and events at the office
  • Received VIPs and made sure they were welcomed properly
  • Ran access control for fifty members coming in and out

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