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AI Is Rewriting China’s Economy
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We recently sat down with Citi’s China economics team for three hours on their H2 2026 outlook.
One thread ran through all my notes: AI isn’t a new growth story for China. It’s rewriting how the economy runs. The headline number...
From 10,000 Rules to a Few Hundred — How a Knowledge Graph Took Our Payment Audit Accuracy from 68% to 90%
Two numbers, same auditors, same documents
Rule library: ~10,000 rules. Accuracy 68%. Knowledge graph: a few hundred rules. Accuracy 90%.
Rules went down by 20×. Accuracy went up by 22 points. Same team, same document mix. That combinatio...
Cut the Finance Team’s Skill-Build From Weeks to Hours: How a Skill Creator Handled an Annual Filing in 4 Hours, 100% Match
The task
Every group finance team has this task on the calendar: a mandatory annual filing for every legal entity in the group. For a group with hundreds of entities, the workload is real. The output is one flat table — one row per entit...
How We Built an Analytical AI Skill That Actually Works
The first time we asked our data analysis AI a real question, it broke.
The question was: “Show me transportation expenses for employees who took a taxi back to a hotel more than twice per day during June business trips.”
It sounds simple...
We Gave Finance a Digital Employee With a Job Title, a Level, and a Reporting Line
Our accounts payable team processes 34,000 documents a month. Each one requires logging into 4 systems, navigating 12 workflow stages, and completing 64 discrete clicks. The average auditor spends 5 minutes per document. At month-end close,...
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