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Practical notes on making finance operations more efficient with AI. The ideas from my LinkedIn carousels, written out in full.
September 22, 2026 · 3 min read
Has AI Changed Who I Hire for Finance? No. Nothing Has.
20 years, about 100 people on my teams, about 50 hired myself: AI has changed nothing about who I look for in finance. Passion for the domain, curiosity, technical understanding and doers. What changed is the lever, and it makes the doers matter even more.
September 17, 2026 · 4 min read
9 Months of Claude Code, 200 Million Tokens, Zero AI Agents Built
Nine months of Claude Code, 1,800+ sessions, 200M+ tokens, and zero AI agents built by Anthropic's definition. What most finance 'agents' really are, the one agent I do run, and the harness I built around it.
April 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Looking for AI Use Cases in Finance? Replace Excel.
Every Excel file your finance team updates by hand is a process running below its potential. Here is how to find them and replace them with Claude Code and a SQL database.
February 24, 2026 · 4 min read
A Non-Developer CFO's First 4 Weeks With Claude Code
I'm a fractional CFO who doesn't write code. Four weeks with Claude Code changed my whole workflow: 7 years of DATEV exports into a SQL database, financial reports on demand, five real projects. What worked and where it failed.
January 27, 2026 · 3 min read
n8n Looked Easy. Then I Spent 100 Hours. Here's the Faster Setup.
n8n's value is obvious in 30 seconds and takes 100 hours to actually use. The two mistakes that cost me the most time, and the 6-step setup that cuts the learning curve by about 80%.
December 17, 2025 · 4 min read
I Spent €2,000 and 500 Hours on AI Tools in 2025. 14 Lessons for Finance.
A fractional CFO's honest roundup after a year and €2,000+ on AI tools: NotebookLM, n8n, superwhisper, Claude Desktop, Lovable and more, with the wins, the €700 mistake, and where AI-native ERPs still fall short.