From founder vision to production SaaS: how Business Conveyor Belt brought AI-powered cash flow planning to market

Stefan Kazakis has spent years helping Australian small businesses understand their numbers through Business Benchmark Group (BBG). That advisory work gave him a clear, hard-won picture of a persistent problem: business owners had no single, forward-looking view of their cash flow. Accounting data sat in Xero or MYOB, job and quote data sat in Simpro, and planning happened separately in spreadsheets.

His response was not just to build a product. Stefan's vision was to create a SaaS company, one with a scalable platform, a growing internal team, and a delivery model capable of sustaining and evolving the product long after launch. Business Conveyor Belt (BCB) was that vision.

Working as a product and delivery partner, Kiandra helped shape the platform, delivery approach and launch pathway. The team built Business Conveyor Belt from scratch: a cloud-based SaaS platform that connects with Xero, MYOB and Simpro through live API integrations.

Once connected, BCB pulls accounting and job management data into a single cash flow view, including bank balances, invoices, bills, payments, transactions, job income and costs, quotes, and work-in-progress.

AI was central to both the build and the product. During delivery, Kiandra used AI-supported design and engineering practices to accelerate prototyping and development, while keeping the build grounded in structured requirements, testable acceptance criteria and UAT validation.

A defining part of the product approach was turning Stefan's business advisory expertise into AI that actually works in practice. Kiandra worked with BCB to translate the scenario modelling frameworks Stefan had developed through BBG into structured foundations the platform could reason from. Those foundations were then connected to each user's live accounting and job management data, so the AI's scenario modelling draws on real numbers, not generic assumptions. The result is planning assistance that is specific to the user's business, grounded in their current position, and immediately relevant.

Alongside the platform build, Kiandra worked with BCB to establish the delivery model a SaaS company needs to keep growing. That meant building capability across BCB's internal team and an offshore delivery capability, with shared practices, tooling and handover processes designed for the long term, not just the initial launch.

AI is also embedded in the product itself. The platform includes:

• AI-assisted business planning - the platform helps users explore business scenarios and cash flow impacts using connected financial and operational data.
• Interactive data visualisations - financial data is presented in dynamic, real-time charts that update as connected systems sync.
• AI-assisted what-if scenario modelling - users can describe business scenarios in natural language and model the financial impact of decisions such as new hires, equipment purchases, delayed payments or changed forecast assumptions.
• Cash flow forecasting - combines historical bank balances, actual transactions and forecast items to project future cash flow and help users identify potential shortfalls earlier.
• Baseline scenario comparison - users can compare modelled scenarios against their baseline forecast before committing to a decision.
• Automated data sync - reduces manual data consolidation by pulling accounting and job management data from connected systems.
• 14 financial calculators - launched through the Key Numbers capability, covering break-even analysis and other business metrics in plain language.
• Secure handling of business data - built to support sensitive financial and operational data across connected business systems.

BCB launched as a production-ready SaaS company, not just a product. The engagement helped establish the platform, delivery foundations and team capability needed to keep evolving what they had built. Kiandra's role was to stand up a delivery model that couples BCB's internal team with offshore capability, built to sustain the product well beyond go-live.

Users can connect their existing tools in minutes, with most seeing value within their first week. The platform is designed to save users more than five hours per week by eliminating manual reconciliation and data entry.

Beyond the launched product, the engagement created the foundations for a longer-term SaaS delivery capability. Stefan's domain knowledge, Kiandra's product delivery expertise, and a combined internal and offshore team now give BCB the structure to keep building, improving and scaling the platform on its own terms.