Most AI tools built for finance solve the easy half of the problem: they find your documents. Grounded is built for the hard half: trusting the number once you’ve found it.
The failure mode nobody talks about
Ask a general-purpose AI a question about your financials and it will always give you an answer. It will sound authoritative. And it will occasionally hand you last quarter’s figure, restated and now wrong, presented with exactly the same confidence as the right one.
For most teams that’s an annoyance. For finance, it’s the number that goes in the board deck, the filing, the model the whole quarter is built on. The failure isn’t “the AI couldn’t find it.” It’s “the AI found the wrong version and never told you.”
What Grounded does differently
- Version-correct across restatements. Ask the same question of two vintages and get two correct answers, never a blend. Which version is treated as a first-class question.
- Shows its exact source. Every answer traces back to the specific figure it came from: the filing, the schedule, the cell.
- Abstains honestly. When the documents can’t support an answer, Grounded says so instead of guessing.
- Reads the grid, not the words. A number’s identity comes from its position (column, period, scenario), not from what it’s labelled.
Where it’s going
Grounded is in active development with early design partners. If a wrong figure isn’t a productivity hit for your team but a credibility event, get in touch. Early-access partners see it first.