Tarek Alaruri asked me: Have you ever seen the TV show Dirty Jobs?

I absolutely have, but if you haven’t—it’s a rollicking reality TV jaunt through some of the messiest jobs out there. There are rattlesnake catchers, sure, but there are also a deluge of examples of industrial jobs like pipefitting, car crushing, and concrete chipping.

“Those are our customers,” Alaruri says proudly.

Alaruri’s startup, Stuut, is in a messy business of its own—accounts receivable, the money due to a company for goods or services that have been delivered, but not yet been paid for. And there’s a reason Stuut focuses on those companies.

In tech, companies tend to have “a big wad of cash in your bank account from VCs,” Alaruri said. But for many of Stuut’s customers, collecting payment is existential: “Thes

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