Finance

Observability Is Not Governance Where your open-source AI stack stops being audit-grade. Observability tells you what happened. Governance controls what’s allowed to happen. Most teams shipping AI features have the first and assume it covers the second. It doesn’t. This post makes three moves. First, it separates the two things people conflate. Second, it borrows a test auditors have used for decades to show exactly where an observability log stops being evidence. Third, it names the two ceilings open-source tooling hits, maps them to SOC 2, and tells you what to do at each one. ...

On april 11 we ran a free 90-minute AI workshop at Burlington Central Library — Ron Ness Training Room — for finance professionals in the area. 10 people showed up. most had never seriously used Claude or Gemini before. by the end they were building their own prompts and applying them to real accounting work. Here’s what we covered and what we learned. Who showed up Accountants, Bookkeepers, a couple of small business owners, and a few finance students. mix of experience levels — some had tried ChatGPT once or twice, others had never opened it. ...

Most AI training for finance professionals misses the mark. It’s either too technical (focused on data scientists) or too generic (basic ChatGPT tips that don’t address real finance workflows). At GRC Vitrix, we took a different approach: 90 minutes of pure practical demonstrations showing finance teams exactly how AI fits into their daily work. Here’s what we built and why it works. The Core Problem We Solved Finance professionals are already using AI tools - ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are everywhere. But most are using them ineffectively because they lack: ...