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Plan the perfect corporate retreat (2026 edition)

Plan the perfect corporate retreat (2026 edition)

Planning an effective retreat requires more than booking flights and picking a cool location. In this guide, we’ll give you everything needed to execute the perfect company retreat in 2025.

How Expensify’s open-source program is powering OpenAI’s next-gen AI engineering benchmarks

How Expensify’s open-source program is powering OpenAI’s next-gen AI engineering benchmarks

SWE-Lancer is a benchmark developed by OpenAI that evaluates LLMs using actual freelance software tasks from Expensify’s open-source repository. Let’s explore how Expensify contributed to the SWE-Lancer project and what this means for the future of AI in software engineering.

How Expensify achieves extreme concurrency with NUMA balancing

How Expensify achieves extreme concurrency with NUMA balancing

Here’s a deep dive into how Expensify's core hardware works – down to the chip level – with an explanation of how that enables a critical feature of our software to work. We hope you'll find it useful as you architect your own NUMA-balanced applications on your own high-density servers!

Scaling Onyx (a postmortem)

Scaling Onyx (a postmortem)

I wanted to quickly take a moment to apologize for some performance and reliability issues we had a couple weeks back.  In the spirit of transparency, here are comprehensive details on what happened, how it was fixed, and how we will ensure better reliability going forward.

5 benefits of asynchronous work

5 benefits of asynchronous work

Asynchronous work has always been the norm at Expensify, and we’d love to share some of the top benefits we’ve discovered over the years by maintaining a workplace where employees can work when they want, where they want. 

Rebrandify: Behind the scenes of Expensify’s new design system

Rebrandify: Behind the scenes of Expensify’s new design system

Anything Expensify says or does visually should look and feel like the Expensify we know and love: bold, courageous, innovative, and easy to understand. Learn more about the ins and outs of our new design for New Expensify.

4 ways we made Expensify’s presence known at SaaStr Annual 2023

4 ways we made Expensify’s presence known at SaaStr Annual 2023

This month we had the incredible experience of being the Unicorn sponsor at the SaaStr Annual conference. At Expensify, we believe in going big, and our presence at this conference was no exception.

Midtown beer garden – Grand opening on Sunday, August 20th!

Midtown beer garden – Grand opening on Sunday, August 20th!

Expensify is deeply committed to supporting local communities, and our own neighborhoods are no exception. Just across the street from Expensify HQ in downtown Portland, we’ve been quietly working away on our latest endeavor: Midtown Beer Garden.

Balancing efficiency and accuracy: A symphony of success

Balancing efficiency and accuracy: A symphony of success

Back in 2008, Expensify emerged as trailblazers in changing the boring task of expenses. But as we march through 2023 and towards 2024, we have come to realize the critical importance of harmonizing efficiency with accuracy and how the mix of both is the actual recipe for success. 

Expensify’s secret sauce for employee retention

Expensify’s secret sauce for employee retention

While Expensify is known for its spend management superapp, some may be surprised to learn that the people behind Expensify operate with a relatively modest team of around ~135 individuals hailing from all corners of the globe. Learn more in this post.

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