Tag: grounded
All the articles with the tag "grounded".
An AI agent is a loop. Here is the loop.
The agentic loop explained for finance people: what an AI agent is, how it differs from a chat, and the ten-line algorithm underneath, with real runs.
Citations aren't verification
What is verifiable AI? The difference between a citation and a verification, why AI arithmetic needs a calculator, and the four controls a finance team should demand.
The anatomy of a financial knowledge base
Engineering teams have shown how to build company knowledge bases. Finance needs a different animal. Seven organs, what each one is for, and how I built them.
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.
The Board Pack Test: I gave four AIs the same board pack, then graded them with a script
I published an exam for finance AI: 34 realistic documents, 25 questions, a deterministic grader, answer key included. The frontier models got most answers right. Proving them right was a different story.
"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.
How an AI agent searches your files (and why Excel fights back)
The four ways an AI agent can search your files (keyword, vector, file system, graph), each mapped to how you already find things, and why spreadsheets break the most popular one.
What is an API, actually?
The word finance people hear in every vendor call, explained through their own day: how actuals move between NetSuite, Anaplan, SAP and Workday, what a key is, and why IT's questions are your own posting-access discipline.
A runway question, answered with receipts
What happens to our runway if the Phase 3 runs a year long? How Grounded's advisory mode answers a board-level question in three tiers: facts, assumptions, analysis.
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.