Writing
All Out of Tokens.
Notes on audit, automation, and moving countries. Written for people who do this work.
Building a variance commentary tool
A build log, written in the open. All five posts are live.
Apr 2026 · 1
Why Writing Variance Commentary Is Still a Manual Job in 2026Month-end close, forty line items, and a blank text box. Starting with the problem.
5 min
Apr 2026 · 2
The Architecture: What the Tool Needs to Do Before Writing a Line of CodeInput structure, output spec, and the prompt decisions that matter before any code runs.
6 min
May 2026 · 3
The First Build: It Worked, And That's the ProblemThe v1 ran. Three Excel tabs, real numbers, AI-generated commentary. Then I threw it out.
8 min
May 2026 · 4
The Rebuild: From Three Tabs to NineA transaction trail, a P&L bridge, and the prompt design that fixed the hallucination problem.
14 min
Aug 2026 · 5
What It Can't Do: The Limits of the Variance Commentary GeneratorWhere it falls over, why most of it comes down to context the ledger never had, and why none of it worries me much.
7 min
Essays
On the shift underway in the profession, and what it looks like from inside it.
Apr 2026
From India to the NetherlandsI didn't research the culture. I didn't have a plan. I had 75-hour weeks and enough of them.
8 min
Mar 2026
The Controller Role Is Being RedefinedController upper-range salaries fell 21% in a year. The market is saying something.
5 min
Mar 2026
Why I Pitched AI Agents at WorkA 40-hour job done in 40 minutes, and what happened after I showed people.
7 min