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Notes on working with AI

Claude for finance teams

The month-end close, the board pack and the workbook nobody understands: what finance teams do with Claude, and the rules that keep the numbers traceable.

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What finance teams actually do with Claude

The monthly close, the inherited workbook nobody understands, and the board pack: where Claude helps a finance team, and the one rule that keeps it safe.

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A forecast is a range, not a number

Pre-trained forecasting models can predict your data without training on it. The value is in the error band and the backtest, not in the line.

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Not everything needs a language model

Many AI projects are classic prediction problems with a table of past data. A language model is the wrong tool for them, and Claude is most useful as the analyst who builds the right one.

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Give your first agent read access and nothing else

An agent is data access, written rules and a scheduler. The design choice that matters most is keeping read permissions apart from action permissions, then proving the rules in a dry run.

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Claude training for teams

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This is the material we teach in workshops, at your office or online. Tell us what you're trying to solve, and we'll come back with a plan.