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This fast-growing aerospace SaaS startup, founded by former SpaceX engineers, provides innovative software solutions to the aerospace industry and is expanding into adjacent markets. With an average deal size of $200,000 and annual contracts reaching into the millions, the company serves enterprise clients across multiple states while maintaining a lean operations team. With Anrok, they transformed a potential six-figure tax compliance burden into an automated process requiring less than an hour per month.

From California simplicity to Colorado complexity
As a California-based SaaS startup, the company initially enjoyed minimal sales tax exposure within their home state. However, their growth trajectory quickly presented new challenges when they landed a major enterprise customer in Colorado—one of the most complex sales tax jurisdictions in the United States with its numerous home rule jurisdictions.
“We knew we had minimal exposure as long as we stayed within California,” explains the company's strategic finance lead. “But when one of our very large customers based in Colorado came on board, it immediately flagged on our operations team's radar as something we needed to address.”
The challenge was compounded by the company's lean structure. With a single person handling all finance functions—from accounting and budgeting to investor relations—there was no bandwidth to manually manage the intricacies of multi-state sales tax compliance.
“I'm not a CPA, I'm not a tax accountant,” the finance lead notes. “We needed a solution that would take all that work off my plate while ensuring we maintain compliance and pay the appropriate taxes.”