
From Old-School Spreadsheets to Smart Spend: How We Launched Moss Budgets & Won Over Finance Teams
Project Overview
I led the end-to-end launch of a new Budget feature—a tool that gave finance managers real-time visibility and control over team spending across cards, invoices, and reimbursements. Backed by usage data and workflow research, we identified key friction points—manual reconciliation and accuracy—and built a solution that saved teams time and improved financial precision.
The result? A high-impact launch that converted skeptics and grew adoption across our client base.
Deep dive
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Our goal was twofold:
Drive adoption among existing clients
Convert prospects who were holding off due to missing budgeting functionality
Our core audience? Finance managers, accountants, and team leads—a group known for being meticulous and slow to adopt new workflows.
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I owned the full go-to-market strategy—defining the positioning and messaging, aligning internal teams, and overseeing enablement, onboarding, and content rollout across every customer touchpoint.
I worked closely with the product manager leading the launch from the product side to ensure our narrative, feature value, and onboarding experience aligned with user needs. We also ran a beta testing phase with volunteer clients to gather early feedback, pressure-test the onboarding experience, and refine the messaging before the full rollout.
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I worked closely with the product manager and product designer to define the value prop and onboarding experience. I also partnered with heads of customer success across our German, Dutch, and UK markets to localize training and onboarding, collaborated with the sales team for enablement, and worked with our content manager to create buzz.
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A dedicated landing page
Email sequences, including nurturing campaigns pre- and post-launch
Internal enablement, with a comprehensive training deck and live training sessions for Sales and Customer Success teams
Onboarding flows with step-by-step guidance
Blog posts and newsletters
In-app copy for launch guidance
A detailed FAQs document to support both internal teams and end users
Localized translations in German and Dutch
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+20% increase in adoption from both new and existing clients
Early engagement and feedback from beta clients helped shape onboarding and secure buy-in before public release
User testimonials secured within the first accounting cycle
The launch’s success helped position Moss as a more complete finance solution and laid the foundation for the feature to be bundled into a broader offering called “Controlling.”
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The main challenge wasn’t product complexity—it was cultural inertia. Many teams were used to spreadsheets and legacy tools. We overcame this by anchoring our messaging in hard data that resonated:
Save 3 days/month
93% fewer manual errors
By meeting them with facts, not hype, we built trust—and adoption followed.
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Go-to-Market Strategy: Owned GTM plan, positioning, and multi-channel rollout
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Aligned Product, Design, Sales, CS, and Content teams across three markets
Data-Driven Marketing: Used insights to shape messaging and prove value
Content Development: Created onboarding, email nurturing, FAQs, and enablement material
Sales & Internal Enablement: Led live training sessions & built sales content
Localization: Adapted assets for Germany, Netherlands, and UK markets