May 17, 2026
In this episode of the Ultimate FD Podcast, I share seven AI tools I am running inside Ultimate FD right now to save time and increase margins without rebuilding how the business operates.
I am not an AI expert or a coder. What I am is a finance professional who has spent the past year testing these tools in a real business, failing on some of them, and landing on what has made a genuine difference to the bottom line.
On marketing, I walk through how I moved away from AI-generated copy that reads as obviously artificial and instead brought in a consultant to build a custom language model trained on ten years of my own LinkedIn posts. I also cover Whisper Flow, a tool that sits above every application on a Mac and converts speech to text instantly, and how pairing it with Gmail lets me write a professional email in under a minute.
For finance and delivery, I cover Sift Reporting, which pulls data from Xero automatically and produces AI-generated summaries that clients can question through a built-in chatbot. I also walk through using Claude to run cash flow analysis, turning downloaded financial reports into usable insight in minutes rather than half a day of manual work.
This episode is for finance professionals, business owners, and anyone managing a team who wants a straight account of where AI is saving real money and time right now. Everything covered here can be acted on immediately.
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