Adam Tzagournis – Avoiding Frankenstein FP&A with FlowCog + ChatGPT | Ep.016

Episode - 016: - Where we learn about Adam’s move from finance into software development, his view on low-code tools, why you don’t need a finance background to be a good business partner, AI autosuggestion, how Adam’s building ChatGPT into his tools, the future of FP&A AI predictions and much much more.

Adam is the founder of FlowCog who make SaaS financial projections easy. Adam is a developer himself, and writes about everything SAAS related, modelling metrics, FP&A and more. And in his spare time, he likes to spend time with his wife and 15 month old and has been studying Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with his wife for the past three to four years. So watch out everyone.

Show Notes

Where to find out more about Adam

• Adam on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-tzagournis-cpa/

• FlowCog website - https://flowcog.com/

Tech Mentioned

• Notion - Notion - https://affiliate.notion.so/tech-for-finance

• Trello – https://www.trello.com

• GitHub Copilot - https://github.com/features/copilot

• ChatGPT - https://chat.openai.com/chat

• Nixsheets - https://www.nixsheets.com/

• SaasAnt - https://www.saasant.com/

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Contents

[00:02:07] Adam’s move from finance into software development

[00:08:46] The evolution of low-code tools

[00:17:38] Not needing a finance background to be a good business partner.

[00:23:42] Finance + Sales & finding the right customer fit

[00:26:07] Why Saas companies?

[00:31:57] Auto-suggesting industry specific accounts structures

[00:39:11] AI Autosuggestion + future user interfaces

[00:45:57] Building ChatGPT into FlowCog

[00:53:08] How long before AI can make predictions from external variables.

[00:59:02] AI seeing context vs prompt engineering

[01:01:25] Failing building ChatGPT into Google Docs

[01:07:14] Adam’s favourite tools