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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CEO, Financial Cents.\n\nShahram Zarshenas co-founded Financial Cents with Abdullah Almsaeed in 2020 and leads it as chief executive. The pair set out to build simpler practice management software for accounting firms, which the company says now serves more than 10,000 accountants.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahramzarshenas\n\n## What Shahram builds\n\n- [Financial Cents MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/financial-cents-mcp.md), graded E, 39.9/100, in Project \u0026 task management. Financial Cents MCP is a hosted MCP server from Financial Cents LLC that lets AI assistants read and update an accounting firm's practice data, including clients, projects, tasks, time, invoices, proposals and client chat. Co-founder and CEO, Financial Cents, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Abdullah Almsaeed](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/abdullah-almsaeed/), Co-founder and CTO, Financial Cents\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Shahram Zarshenas?\n\nShahram Zarshenas co-founded Financial Cents with Abdullah Almsaeed in 2020 and leads it as chief executive. The pair set out to build simpler practice management software for accounting firms, which the company says now serves more than 10,000 accountants.\n\n### What does Financial Cents LLC make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Financial Cents MCP from Financial Cents LLC. Financial Cents MCP is a hosted MCP server from Financial Cents LLC that lets AI assistants read and update an accounting firm's practice data, including clients, projects, tasks, time, invoices, proposals and client chat.\n\n### How are Shahram's tools graded?\n\nFinancial Cents MCP is graded E, 39.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://financial-cents.com/\n- https://financial-cents.com/about-us/\n- https://help.financial-cents.com/en/\n- https://app.financial-cents.com/mcp-guide\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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