This week, Usman Hanif is joined by Sapien co-founders Ron Nachum, Pranav Ravella, and Arya Grayeli to talk about their journey from college dropouts to securing $8.7M in seed funding, creating the first fully autonomous "shadow CFO" for enterprise teams, and attempting to revolutionize financial decision-making for major companies using AI.

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Highlights from the episode:

Sapien is building an AI "shadow CFO" that can proactively analyze company data and surface insights, transforming how financial decisions are made
The team has developed proprietary technology to parse and understand complex financial data across multiple sources, creating a unified "company representation"
Their early success includes catching a $10M error for a major manufacturer, demonstrating the immediate value their system can provide

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