workflow automationfinance operationsapprovals
The Approval Workflow That Replaced Our Spreadsheet
How to turn a shared approval spreadsheet into a routed workflow with a real audit trail, using tools you already have.
Notes from the desk
I build small software products on my own, with AI agents doing a large share of the work, and I spent about ten years running finance operations before that. These are notes from both: what shipped, what broke, what a thing actually cost, and the parts that did not work. Written plainly, with the real numbers in them.
tool stackai agentscostsbuild log
The Tools I Use, What They Cost, and What I Dropped
The main tools behind my apps, a Shorts channel that renders and publishes on its own, and a game prototype: what each did, what it cost and when, and what I dropped.
ai agentsshippingapp stores
What the AI Agents Caught, and What Only a Real Device Could
Rack Up is live on both stores at $2.99. What adversarial AI review caught, what only running the build on a device caught, and the store settings nobody warns you about.
data and analyticsmetricsoperations
The Handful of Metrics a Small Operation Should Track Weekly
A five-number weekly scorecard that covers most operating decisions: cash on hand, cash coming in, cash going out, runway, and one revenue driver.
finance operationsreconciliationprocess
Reconciliations You Can Trust
How to turn reconciliations from a monthly scramble into a boring, repeatable system that anyone on the team can follow and defend.
consultingfinance operationspoint of view
The Operator Who Builds: Why Finance and Software Should Not Be Strangers
Why the person who runs the finance process should also build the tools, and what AI changes about that combination.
workflow automationdecision-makingprocess
When to Automate, and When to Leave It Alone
A framework for deciding which tasks earn automation and which manual steps are quietly doing a job you want to keep.
finance operationsmonth-end closeprocess
Close the Books in Five Days, Not Fifteen
A practical month-end close checklist that gets a small finance team to a clean, fast close without buying new software.
See what I am building.
These notes come out of the work itself: the apps, the operations behind them, and the tools I build to run both. The rest of the company is one page away.
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