Before Perk, Northwind's ops team was juggling Concur for travel, Brex for cards, Bill.com for reimbursements, two spreadsheets, and a Notion page that nobody updated. The result: 11 hours a week of admin per finance lead, plus a constant trickle of fairness debates.
They picked Perk because the policy engine and the card spend lived inside the same product. Travelers see only the inventory they're allowed to book, and every receipt OCRs into the right cost center the moment it lands.
Eleven days after kickoff, the team was on Perk for everything. Month-end now closes on the second business day. The COO got 30 hours back a quarter.
“Perk replaced six tools we hated using. The first month I closed the books on a Tuesday and went home at 5.”— Maya Kovac, VP Finance, Northwind