6AM Group moved its event payouts off five payment apps and onto Cleo

6AM Group is a Los Angeles electronic music event production and digital media company focused on underground house and techno. It started as a local blog and club sub-promotion company, co-founded the WORK, RE/FORM and COMPOUND parties, and by its own count has organized and promoted more than 1,000 events.

Andri Pramono is 6AM's Finance Director. In his numbers, 6AM throws 60 to 65 events a year, about five a month, and each one has 10 to 15 payouts: DJs, crews and the vendors who build the night.

Before Cleo

Every payout went out by hand, through whichever app the payee used: Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, ACH, wire, and sometimes a check.

Month end meant logging into each of those platforms and reconciling them one by one.

What runs on Cleo now

6AM paid its first bill through Cleo in July 2026. Every payout now goes through Cleo first. Andri codes each bill to 6AM's chart of accounts, it goes through the approval workflow, and it is paid from Cleo, with QuickBooks Online synced.

Through mid-October, 6AM paid 100 bills to 28 artists, crews and vendors through Cleo. 62 of those bills were sent in by the payee, not typed in by 6AM, and the median bill was paid 3.6 days after it came in.

Month end

Because every bill is coded when it is approved and synced when it is paid, the books are already up to date at the end of the month. What is left is matching the transactions in the accounting software.

Artists and vendors

Many of 6AM's payees are independent contractors who used to build their own invoices in Excel. Now, when 6AM has a list of people to pay, it uploads the list to Cleo, and Cleo creates the invoices for every payee who is already on Cleo.