Yesterday's is a bar in New York's West Village, run by Jarrod Fox, who also runs BK Backyard and Backyard Bar and Billiards. It pays security guards and doormen, a weekly janitorial service, a waste and recycling hauler, and the suppliers behind its kitchen. Its invoices list tomatoes, shredded mozzarella, wagyu patties, panko, frying oil, gloves and trash liners.
Before Cleo
Jarrod's problem was not one vendor. It was all of them. "Every single liquor vendor, every single food vendor, anything whatsoever that has payment to it, they have their own payment processing," he said.
He gave a recent example. Yesterday's placed a $20,000 order with Empire, which had a set credit limit. The team had to log into Empire's system and pay on account, then go into the bank and send screenshots as proof.
He had been looking for a fix for a while. "I was looking for an aggregator and someone that was willing to build with us," he said, as the business and the number of venues grew.
The switch
Yesterday's opened its Cleo account on April 27, 2026 and paid 11 invoices in May. In June it paid 51 invoices, its busiest month so far.
What runs on Cleo now
Most invoices arrive by email. 124 of the 194 invoices Yesterday's has paid came into its Cleo inbox by email and became bills without anyone typing them in. Another 55 were sent in through Cleo by the vendor or staff member. Only 15 were typed in by Yesterday's team.
Five people at Yesterday's work in its Cleo account. They review and approve, and the median invoice is paid 5.5 days after it comes in. 19 of its 40 payees have been paid more than once.
Everything should be aggregated, which is kind of why, you know, Cleo Pay I think is an awesome product.
At a conservative 10 minutes saved per invoice, that is at least 32 hours of processing Yesterday's did not do.