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adityamishra241 1 days ago [-]
The local-first approach is interesting, especially for finance workflows. Being able to save a workflow and rerun it later without involving the LLM again is a nice touch. Curious to see how this evolves.
kdautaj 1 days ago [-]
Thank you. In finance, from my personal experience, no one wants to re-build anything. Once someone creates a workflow, they should be able to re-run it next month. For example, if you build a monthly operating variance report from your quick books, next time, you should just click re-run.
hackernud3s 14 hours ago [-]
Are you talking about Lovable? I don't see it.
kdautaj 13 hours ago [-]
Sorry for the delay, had to put my 15 month old to sleep yes, Lovable - I spelled it “Love-able” on purpose-ish since the architecture is different. Lovable builds you an app; this builds a workflow. The LLM plans the steps once (based on file schema), then the actual math runs as SQL in duck-db wasm in your browser. Next month you simply upload the revised file and hit re-run - same SQL (no add'l tokens needed). The AI can still write bad SQL, but it's all visible on the canvas, so it can be checked and once you save it, then next time it is deterministic. For Finance, the local first (sensitive data), repeatability, and transparency matter quite a bit. I connected Fred (econ data, nearly 800k series), and stocks so folks could try it out without needing to upload their own files (in this case it pulls the info as files, you can see it in the canvas section). Quickbooks is also connected, with other ERPs coming in later as I would need to go thru the hoops to get approvals in place (i.e. from Xero, Sage, etc.). I completely get your point though, in terms of it does not feel the same as Lovable. Maybe that is something that I can think through in more detail. Thank you for the comment. Feel free to let me know of any recommendations. I would really appreciate it.
jon9544hn 2 days ago [-]
I’ll mess with it!!
kdautaj 2 days ago [-]
thank you so much, I really appreciate it
tochihenry28 17 hours ago [-]
the local approach makes a lot of sense for tools like this. will try
kdautaj 16 hours ago [-]
That was my thought process, especially if it’s used on system of records (i.e. QuickBooks, Xero, Net Suite, Sage, etc.) - that said, on the UI side , unsure if some one should just land on the canvas or if the home page is the way to go , flashier but unsure on usability / will see :) thank you again for taking the time to try it, really appreciate it
SenHeng 6 hours ago [-]
Do you have a blog or something documenting your thought process?
I’m building something similar for cash flow prediction and management and would love to know more.
kdautaj 2 hours ago [-]
Sorry for the late reply, just walking up here (Est US time). No blog at the moment, but something I should be working on - Happy to email you some thoughts. I've been in finance nearly 20 years now, with the last ten in M&A diligence And I can tell you that cash flow is where lots of deals get made or broken - i.e. 13 week cash flow, net working capital peg, etc. Happy to share what I have seen and what I have been thinking about (repeatable workflows, deterministic, etc). I just checked out your blog and I can take a read thru some of the recent ones - I love the fact that it is in both, English and Japanese. I've also included my contact info in my 'about' section if you would like DM me and we can go from there. thank you again for checking this out - any feedback is welcomed.
I’m building something similar for cash flow prediction and management and would love to know more.