Case Study: Thimble achieves 3x finance efficiency and 76% faster close with Sage Intacct

Thimble boosts finance efficiency 3x and gains profitable insights with Sage Intacct

Thimble is a New York–based insuretech that sells insurance policies quickly to small businesses (more than 200,000 policies to ~60,000 customers). As the company grew, its finance team was hampered by an outdated Microsoft Dynamics NAV system, manual Excel-based processes, and limited on-demand visibility—making month-end close and reporting labor-intensive and slow.

Thimble implemented Sage Intacct (live in two weeks), leveraging its flexible reporting and open integrations to automate AP and reconciliations. The result: finance efficiency improved 3x, close time dropped from three weeks to five days (76% faster), 40 hours/month of manual AP work eliminated (plus ~4 hours/month saved on card reconciliations), reporting increased (from ~2 to 8 monthly reports), and the company scaled without adding finance headcount while uncovering cost-saving insights.

Thimble

Ian Westerman

SVP of Finance