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1 to 100: Sapien

Dec 11, 2024

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Arya Grayeli

Ron Nachum, Pranav Ravella, and Arya Grayeli, co-founders of Sapien, share their inspiring journey from dropping out of college to raising $8.7M in seed funding. They discuss their innovative AI 'shadow CFO' designed to enhance financial decision-making by analyzing unstructured data. The trio emphasizes the importance of user-friendly AI tools and how community and passion fuel their entrepreneurial drive. Hear how they pivoted from wealth management to revolutionizing finance through technology and customer feedback.

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INSIGHT

Unified Company Representation

Sapien builds a "company representation" to unify financial data across sources for strategic analysis.
That lets teams ask open-ended questions and run workflows in minutes instead of days.

ADVICE

Begin With Excel First

Start with Excel because it's the lingua franca of finance and contains the contextual structure analysts rely on.
Parse complex tables first, then add ERP and Snowflake integrations to expand coverage.

INSIGHT

Tree-Based Reasoning With Verifiable Leaves

Sapien decomposes queries into a reasoning tree that calls verified library functions and LLMs as needed.
The tree produces observable steps and citations for every number and action the system takes.

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