Tag: finance
All the articles with the tag "finance".
The questions your finance team has stopped asking
The entire pitch for what I built, asterisk included: why the board pack questions that cost an afternoon stop getting asked, what changed this year, and how I'd test any AI that says it's fixed that, including mine.
How to use AI at work without leaking data
Is it safe to put company data in ChatGPT? A working protocol for finance teams: what to paste where, how to anonymise a question properly, and how to get IT to yes.
"Why not just upload it to ChatGPT?" The honest answer
It's the question every finance leader asks, and it deserves a straight answer, including the cases where a chatbot genuinely is the right tool.
The $2.1 million that was only in one of your reports
Two of your own documents disagree about R&D spend by $2.1 million. Which one is right, and how long would it take your team to find out? A walkthrough on a synthetic biotech reporting pack.
Analysis is answering questions, but three-quarters of it is finding things
Variance analysis has four steps. Only one of them is analysis. A look at where an FP&A analyst's time actually goes, and which steps a machine should be doing.
The 4:45-on-a-Friday question
Every finance team knows the out-of-nowhere question that lands at the worst moment. It isn't an interruption. It's a tax. Here's what it actually costs, and why you'll never get headcount to fix it.
AI with receipts: why provenance and honest abstention come first
Provenance and honest abstention aren't features you bolt on at the end. Build them in from the start, or you've built AI a controller can't defend.
Introducing Grounded: AI that returns the version-correct number, with receipts
Grounded is an audit-grade retrieval layer for financial documents: version-correct, sourced to the exact figure, and honest when it can't answer. Here's why we built it the way we did.