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Insights
Operating design notes on strategic finance and AI-native systems for seed-stage companies. Each one is a page you can read in a few minutes and share.
Vendor landscape / AI-native finance
Can an AI agent run your books? Grading the ledgers.
QuickBooks Online, Xero, Puzzle, Digits and Kick, graded on what an agent can actually reach through the API: bank feeds, reconciliation, journals, events, evidence and reports. Tested where marked; every vendor given a right of reply.
Operating design / AI-native finance
Close the books every day. Decide in real time.
How a team of AI agents runs a continuous close: every source feeds a daily loop, rules handle the routine, and a person steps in only on exceptions.