ZeyZey is a venue in Miami. Every week it books DJs, rents drum kits and congas, and hires A1 and A2 audio engineers, stagehands and photographers. Each of those people sends a bill, and each one expects to get paid.
Before Cleo
ZeyZey ran its payables through QuickBooks and Bill.com. Many of its crew were used to app payments: 79 of the bills ZeyZey has paid on Cleo still carry a Zelle, Venmo or Cash App handle in the notes.
The switch
ZeyZey opened its Cleo account on October 14, 2025 and paid its first bills that November. By December it was taking in 81 bills a month. Between 57 and 81 new bills have come in every month since.
The work is steady, not seasonal. 90 of the 217 payees have been paid more than once. That is a lot of payments to a lot of people, which is where manual entry costs the most.
What runs on Cleo now
The payees do the data entry. Every one of the 681 paid bills was sent in by the artist, engineer or vendor, not typed by ZeyZey's team. The line items read like a production rider: "drum set," "disco stage, 1 hour," "back line," "A1 audio engineer," "stage hand," "DJ set."
Four people on the ZeyZey team review and approve those bills in Cleo, and the money goes out by ACH to the bank account each payee added when they signed up.
At a conservative 10 minutes saved per invoice, that is at least 113 hours of processing ZeyZey did not do.