Isaac PFounder | Lead Process Automation Architect, Opzer · Founder | Lead Process Automation Architect at Opzer

The Secret Behind Automating Accruals

6 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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Speaker B explains that their accrual automation system isn't powered by AI, but by a team combining software engineering expertise in Python and backend development with deep accounting knowledge from a CFO, CPA, and controller. The real secret is bridging technical and domain knowledge to automate what would otherwise require manual data entry.

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You've published on LinkedIn that people think that there's an AI or ChatGPT behind all of this. Yeah. And you suggest there's not. So could you tell us anything about the secret sauce behind making this work?
Yeah, so we have like this one person and they're really, really fast at typing in math. So as soon as you click save, that person does every single thing by hand and keys it into QuickBooks before you even know what's going on. That's, that's the secret sauce. It's one guy. His name is Aaron. So it is AI. It's Aaron intelligence. That's, that's literally the entire thing. It's one really Smart guy. No, all kidding aside, it's, uh, I mean, how does it work? It's years of Python, regular expressions, all other sorts of code, JSON, all these other types of things that we're doing in the UI and the backend, combined with multiple people with careers spanning accounting and finance, being a CFO, CPA, a controller, right? It's that collective knowledge where we've been able to bridge the accounting and the engineering.