Hi, I'm Chris Davis

What I am building

I am the founder of RevQL, an open-source, accountant-in-the-loop revenue recognition workbench and pipeline layer. It provides mid-market finance teams with an audit-ready review interface and deterministic ASC 606 calculation engine without requiring an ERP overhaul.

RevQL pairs an open-source core (OpenRevRec) for single-tenant or on-premise execution with managed hosting and code-first data engineering services to connect messy CRM, CPQ, and billing feeds directly to existing accounting ledgers.

Why this problem and why now

In 2023, I worked as a solutions engineer at Klarity AI building enterprise integrations for automated contract accounting. The work made two realities obvious: first, that messy contract intake combined with the data plumbing behind it is the true operational bottleneck; and second, that accounting controls require deterministic execution and unambiguous audit trails, not black-box generative text.

The experience left such an impression on me that I went on to complete a formal degree in accounting. When Klarity pivoted upstream to pursue broader enterprise digital transformation, the mid-market wedge was vacated. Mid-market companies with messy, heterogeneous contracts remain caught between simple tools that assume straightforward, standardized terms, and six-figure enterprise ERP modules.

I have kept a close eye on this space ever since, waiting for the underlying technical pieces to mature. Recent advancements have finally converged to make a lightweight, code-first architecture viable:

Small language models can now extract complex contract clauses with reliable citations directly into structured schemas. Compact open-weight reasoning models can run locally or in private VPCs with near-zero marginal inference cost. Combined with code-first pipeline tooling like dlt, dbt, and Dagster, we can now replace bespoke iPaaS connectors with auditable, version-controlled transformations.

With an accounting foundation and years spent architecting data warehouses and integration pipelines, this convergence aligns directly with the problems I know how to solve.

Recent experience