Finance & Investment AI Skill Templates

25 structured AI Skills for finance & investment work. Each one is a sequenced, auditable method — open it in Studio, adapt it to your approach, or export it to ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot.

Decision Engine

Data Room to IC Memo

Turns a target’s data room materials into a source-cited Investment Committee memo, reconciling financial evidence and assessing deal risks to support a clear investment recommendation.

9 steps
Delivery

Budget consolidation

Rolls stacked department budget submissions up by cost centre and department, compares the total to your envelope, and writes the consolidation note with credible trims.

9 steps
Diagnostic

Financial Health Diagnostic

Computes period-on-period movement across a financial summary and reconciles profitability, liquidity, leverage, cash generation and working capital into a triaged read on strengths, risks and priority actions.

12 steps
Decision Engine

Credit / Loan Underwriting

Assesses a credit application against your own credit policy and returns a governed underwriting decision — approve, refer or decline — showing how affordability, risk and policy thresholds drove the outcome, and holding it for a credit officer sign-off before any letter is issued.

0 steps
Diagnostic

Profitability Analysis

Computes gross profit and margin by product, customer, unit or geography, isolates loss-making and sub-scale lines, and explains where value leaks through discounting, cost-to-serve, mix or small orders.

17 steps
Diagnostic

Investment Potential Analysis

Scores a public company's fundamentals alongside live market signals and research for near-term momentum, medium-term trajectory and long-term durability, reconciling all three into one investment-potential verdict.

7 steps
Diagnostic

P&L variance commentary

Calculates actual-versus-budget variance per account in the database, ranks the top movers, then writes the commentary explaining what moved, why, and whether it is timing or permanent.

10 steps
Diagnostic

Business Case Review

Extracts the assumptions, costs, benefits, risks and dependencies from a business case, checks the numbers for internal consistency, and runs the challenge an investment committee would run before approval.

12 steps
Diagnostic

Financial Due Diligence

Computes customer concentration and adjustment totals from the EBITDA bridge and revenue file, judges how defensible each adjustment is, and names the earnings-quality and cash-conversion issues that should move price or structure.

15 steps
Diagnostic

Comparable Company Analysis

Computes EV/Revenue and EV/EBITDA per peer, tests with live research whether the peer set is genuinely comparable, and argues the valuation range and where the target should sit within it.

14 steps
Delivery

Invoice late-payment predictor

Ranks open invoices by the risk of paying late, based on how comparable invoices have actually settled, and returns a cash-flow risk report with where debtor days are heading.

9 steps
Delivery

Investment Appraisal

Discounts the cash-flow profile deterministically to produce NPV, cumulative position and payback, then appraises the investment on returns, strategic fit and risk with a proceed decision and conditions.

11 steps
Delivery

Fee proposal from scoping brief

Extracts workstreams and effort from a scoping brief and builds lean, baseline and stretch fee scenarios with per-phase pricing and margin notes.

5 steps
Delivery

Bank–GL reconciliation

Reconciles the bank statement against the general ledger, matching reliably on reference and amount, then explains every exception — timing, fees, duplicates, posting errors — and ages the items still open.

11 steps
Delivery

Three-way match exception engine

Joins purchase orders, goods receipts and invoices on the PO number, derives quantity and price variances arithmetically, and cause-codes only the breaks that clear tolerance.

21 steps
Delivery

Cost-to-serve & margin leakage by customer

Joins revenue to allocated cost per customer, derives true contribution margin, and names the loss-makers with the price rise each needs to reach your target margin.

18 steps
Delivery

Scenario Modeller

Builds base, upside and downside cases arithmetically from your driver table, then explains the swing factors, breach points and the triggers that should move you between scenarios.

15 steps
Delivery

Business Case Builder

Fans your cost and benefit lines across months so the profile is real rather than assumed, derives cumulative position and payback from the maths, and writes the case with investment ask, ROI, risks and success conditions.

10 steps
Diagnostic

Revenue recognition schedule (IFRS 15 / ASC 606)

Fans each contract's transaction price across periods to produce a month-by-month recognised-versus-deferred schedule, with an audit-ready memo on the judgement calls behind it.

15 steps
Diagnostic

Cash-flow forecast variance & accuracy scoring

Scores forecast against actual by week and category, exposes which lines are systematically optimistic, and prescribes the corrected forecasting method line by line.

14 steps
Diagnostic

Management Accounts Review

Derives budget and prior-year variances from a monthly management pack, ranks the movers, and writes the commentary a finance business partner would present — what moved, why, what is timing and what needs a decision.

13 steps
Diagnostic

Portfolio anomaly watch

Reads a single performance export across a whole portfolio to identify the companies behaving unusually against their own history and their peers, explaining where each trend is heading and which movements deserve attention now.

9 steps
Diagnostic

Portfolio concentration & correlation X-ray

Examines a portfolio's holdings to show where value is genuinely concentrated by sector, region and asset class, which positions move together, which sit well outside the norm and where sector weight is drifting, returning a risk briefing built on the underlying numbers.

11 steps
Diagnostic

Budget vs Actual Analysis

Calculates variance by account in the database, filters out immaterial noise, then infers the driver for each material mover, classifies it as timing, volume, price, one-off or structural and directs management attention.

14 steps
Diagnostic

Cost Base Review

Aggregates a spend extract by category and supplier, exposes concentration, scores each material line for reducibility, and sizes a savings pipeline with the lever, confidence and effort per opportunity.

16 steps

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