A mountain forge, a teacher and a road

Why an accounting product carries the name of a Manila street.

Mendi + ola: A mountain forge, in Basque: where hard material is made into something that holds.
Enrique Mendiola: A teacher and textbook author, on the first Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines.
Mendiola Street: A road in Manila that runs past San Beda, where our founder studied, on toward Malacañang.

The rules of a ledger page, rising into a mountain and standing on the double rule an accountant draws under a total.

The name

Mendiola is a Basque name: mendi, mountain, and ola, forge. A mountain forge is where hard material is made into something that holds.

In Manila, Mendiola is a street, named for Enrique Mendiola, an educator and textbook author who sat on the first Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines. The street runs past San Beda, where our founder studied from grade school through college, and on toward Malacañang, where Filipinos have gone for a century to ask that public accounts be answered for.

We took the name for all three: work that is made, work that is taught, and work that answers for itself.

The mark

An accountant draws a double rule under a total to say it is final: checked, tied out, signed. Our mark is a mountain M standing on that double rule. It is the line every client's period should reach, and it is where our maker's name comes from.

Why we built Mendiola

Every month, in every accounting firm I know, the same thing happens. The period ends, and the best people in the firm spend the next days reading receipts, matching bank lines and adding up what a computer could have added. The judgment, the part our clients actually pay us for, gets whatever hours are left.

We have run DoubleRule since 2013 and moved more than 6,000 businesses' books to the cloud. The cloud fixed where the books live. It did not fix who does the routine work around them.

So should accountants worry about software that reads, matches and checks? I strongly believe the opposite. When the routine work is done for us, accountants move up: to the review, to the question the client needed asked, to the sign-off only a professional can give. That is why Mendiola checks and proposes, and a person decides and signs. It never signs for you.

We built it for our own accountants first. They close their clients in it every day, and every rule it applies, from the BIR's invoicing rules to the closing review's checklist, is written down with its source, where your firm can read it.

Today close to 80 organizations are testing it with us, in the United States and the Philippines. I'm personally inviting your firm to be one of them. Bring a company, and let's run its month together.

Built inside a working practice

Mendiola is made by DoubleRule, an accounting practice with offices in Cypress, California and Clark Freeport, Pampanga. Its record, kept the way we keep everything else.

DateParticularsFolio

Aug 2013DoubleRule opens as a cloud accounting firm.Founding

2015Named Xero's US CPA Partner of the Year.Xero, 2015

2016Marvin Galang named to Hubdoc's Top 50 Cloud Accountants in North America.Hubdoc, 2016

To dateMore than 6,000 businesses' books moved to the cloud.DoubleRule records

2026Mendiola built for DoubleRule's own accountants, who close their clients in it every day.In use

2026Mendiola enters alpha with other accounting firms: close to 80 organizations testing it, in the United States and the Philippines.Alpha

TodayCarried forward. Firms are Mendiola's only customers. We never sell to a firm's clients.Founded by Marvin Galang

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25 releases published on What's new between Sep 2 and Nov 13, each one only after it was confirmed live: releases in 8 of those 11 weeks.

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Nov 13ImprovedA clearer menu, and every company's documents in one listThe menu is grouped under Data, Accounting and Tax, and the firm has a Documents page across companies.
Nov 12AddedSign in with a passkeyUse your fingerprint, face or device PIN instead of your password.
Nov 12ImprovedLess text on the company listThe line above the company list is gone; Active and Archived explain themselves on hover, and Add company sits beside the search.
Nov 11ImprovedA quieter DashboardThe Juan connection moves to the company's name, Add documents moves onto the Documents card, and the company menu leaves the page.
Nov 7ImprovedCompany settings in three pages, each with tabsGeneral, Tax & closing and Automation replace the long list of settings rows, with tabs inside each page.

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