Curiosity Built This. Results Kept It Going.
I started using AI in 2023 not because someone told me to, but because I saw clearly what the technology could do. Routine tasks were eating time that should have been spent on strategy. Brainstorming had a ceiling. The tools existed to change both of those things, and I was not willing to wait for the finance industry to catch up before I started building.
My first serious experiments were with ChatGPT. Over time, I migrated toward Claude and a broader toolkit of AI models, driven partly by a commitment to privacy and partly by the belief that understanding the full landscape matters. If you only ever use one tool, you only ever see one way of solving a problem. That has never been how I operate.
What emerged from that period of exploration was something I did not fully anticipate: a genuine architectural instinct for how these systems fit together. I began building agentic workflows, interconnected systems where AI handles the repeatable and surfaces the meaningful. Today that work is focused on something specific and intentional: a scalable, sustainable architecture designed to plug and play with future Claude models, so that what I build now compounds in value rather than becomes obsolete.
I am a CFO working in the technology sector, based in Chicago. The work I do with AI is not theoretical. It lives inside real business processes, real reporting cycles, real management decisions. That grounding is what I bring to everything on this site.
I share this work because I believe in community and because I have benefited from the generosity of others throughout my career. AI can feel overwhelming from the outside. The goal here is to make it approachable, actionable, and genuinely useful for people who want to build with it rather than just talk about it.