The money, the books and the rules, in one system

Finance is the factory for the money and the rules. It runs bookkeeping, profit and loss, and legal and compliance, with profit as its main number.
The Finance factory's slab raised out of the hexagon, carrying its objects

AI can read an invoice. It cannot fix books that are a month behind

Decisions get made on last quarter's numbers, because this month's are not booked.

  1. The books are behind

    The bank, the invoices and the bookkeeping meet once a month, if at all.

  2. Contracts live in inboxes

    What was agreed, and when it renews, is a search through email.

  3. Decisions without numbers

    Hiring, pricing and spend are decided before the P&L is known.

Autonomy is the top layer, not the first

An AI employee can only take over Finance work that already runs on a system and a decision. Each layer stands on the one below it.

Systems
The tools, data and processes it runs on
Strategy
The decisions of the factory
Execution
The lines where the work happens
Autonomy
AI and automation that take the work over

The finance engine

From a contract to a decision: the AI employee invoices, matches and books, your team reads the P&L and decides.

  1. Contract (Trigger, Your systems)
  2. Invoice sent (Step, AI employee)
  3. Payment in the bank (Store, Your systems)
  4. Matched and booked (Step, AI employee)
  5. P&L per month (Store, Your systems)
  6. Decisions (Condition, Your team)

What must be true before an AI employee does the books

Autonomy in Finance is earned on these: books current, a P&L every month and contracts in one place.

The books current
The bank linked and every invoice booked, week by week.
A P&L every month
Closed and read, not reconstructed at year end.
Contracts in one place
Every contract with its terms and its renewal.

The Finance toolkit in your workspace

The documents and apps the team and the AI employee work from.

P&L
Month over month, per factory.
Invoices
Every invoice with its status.
Contracts
Every contract with its status and renewal.
Ledger
Every booking, matched to the bank.

Profit is the number to watch

Profit is revenue minus costs. Finance keeps the books that let that figure stay current.

A system in four layers

Finance runs in four layers: Systems, Strategy, Execution and Autonomy. Each layer rests on the one below it. We check the layers from the bottom and fix the lowest one that fails first.

Less upkeep, more decisions

Finance upkeep is cleared in three moves: we delete the work no one needs, automate the routine steps, and delegate the rest. The platform shows how much time goes to each.

What we describe, and who advises

This page describes what the platform does. It does not give tax, legal or financial advice. Advice on those comes from a qualified person.

Questions

The library

The plays, tools and books to start with

Each one is a page of its own, with the plays and tools it links to.

Playbooks

  • PlaybookFinanceReporting
    Profit and loss and the balance sheet are the two statements that show the financial health of your business. Every scale-up founder needs to read them as fluently as they read their own product.
    3 chapters

Tools