Posted by Alumni from Substack
May 26, 2026
' Hey, Linas here! Every day, I break down 3 stories shaping the future of FinTech & Artificial Intelligence - plus the money movements and trends worth tracking. First time here' 385k+ FinTech and AI leaders get this daily. Join them: Thanks to AI, finance teams are now shipping board decks, closing books, and building models under the same pressure as always - except now with fewer people. Claude AI can cut a 13-week cash forecast from four hours to 40 minutes, but only if you set it up right. A bad prompt still produces a confident, wrong DCF. A good one produces an auditable first draft that your controller can actually use. This guide gives you the exact setup: a 60-minute configuration walkthrough, seven copy-paste prompts (DCF, LBO, three-statement model, 13-week cash forecast, unit economics, credit analysis, and monthly close), and the specific failure modes that will burn you if you don't know about them. Every prompt uses XML-structured instructions optimized for Opus... learn more