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

The Adam Shilton Podcast - A podcast by Adam Shilton

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/ 📧: Sign up for The Tech for Finance Newsletter here 📺: Subscribe on YouTube here 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