aid: collective
name: Collective
description: Collective is an all-in-one financial back-office platform built for self-employed
  entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and businesses-of-one. It bundles S Corp formation and election,
  bookkeeping, payroll (as a Gusto partner), business and personal tax preparation and filing,
  quarterly tax planning, and a dedicated accounting team into a single membership. Roughly
  12,000 members use Collective to optimize self-employment taxes, with members reporting
  average annual business-tax savings around $10,000. Collective is a private fintech company
  backed by General Catalyst, Kindred Ventures, and QED Investors. It currently exposes no
  public developer API, SDK, or documentation surface; this profile captures its public web,
  security, and compliance footprint for the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/collective/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- general-catalyst
- kindred-ventures
- qed-investors
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.collective.com/_next/static/media/opengraph-image.22d22c62.png
tags:
- Company
- Fintech
- Accounting
- Tax
- Payroll
- Bookkeeping
- Self-Employed
- Financial Services
- Small Business
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.collective.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.collective.com/plans-and-pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.collective.com/plans-and-pricing
- type: Login
  url: https://app.collective.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.collective.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://help.collective.com/hc/en-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.collective.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.collective.com/privacy-policy
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.collective.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/collective-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence