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Nextsteprer team working on expense management workflows

Expense automation
mentorship that
goes the distance

Nextsteprer works with individuals and teams who want a structured, long-term approach to managing and automating business expenses — not a 3-day workshop, but an ongoing working relationship.

Where the idea behind this came from

Back in 2018, the founding team noticed a consistent pattern: businesses were spending significant hours each month on expense reconciliation that could be handled automatically. The problem was not software — there were plenty of tools. The problem was that no one was staying long enough to make sure those tools were actually adopted.

Nextsteprer was built around a different model. Instead of selling a course and leaving, the mentors here stay on for 6 to 12 months, working directly with clients until the automated workflows are running reliably. That includes everything from category mapping in accounting platforms to scheduled reporting and approval chain logic.

6–12 months typical
engagement length
38+ tools and platforms
covered in sessions
4 continents served
across time zones
Expense management session in progress
Live mentorship, not recordings

The people behind the sessions

Each mentor at Nextsteprer has worked inside finance or operations teams before moving into teaching. That matters — the advice comes from actual experience running expense workflows, not from studying them at a distance.

Tarquin Breslow, Lead Mentor

Lead Mentor

Tarquin Breslow

Spent 9 years in mid-market accounting before shifting fully to mentorship. Works primarily with clients building their first automated expense pipelines in tools like Xero, QuickBooks and Zoho Expense.

Dagna Wiśniewska, Operations Advisor

Operations Advisor

Dagna Wiśniewska

Formerly managed regional expense audits across 14 office locations. Now focuses on helping teams design approval workflows and policy documentation that actually hold up under real usage.

Obinna Echefulam, Systems Integration Mentor

Systems Integration Mentor

Obinna Echefulam

Background in ERP configuration and API-based integrations. Helps clients connect expense tools to payroll, HR and reporting systems so data moves without manual intervention between platforms.

How an engagement actually unfolds

The process below describes a typical 6-month engagement, though timelines shift depending on how complex the client's existing expense infrastructure is and how much needs to be rebuilt versus configured.

1
Diagnostic call
Map current tools, identify manual bottlenecks
2
Workflow design
Draft category logic, approval chains, reporting cadence
3
Tool configuration
Set up automation rules inside chosen platforms
4
Live testing
Run real transactions through new workflows, adjust
5
Ongoing review
Monthly check-ins, edge case handling, team training
Client reviewing automated expense report during mentorship session