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Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

15 points - yesterday at 9:09 PM


Hi everyone, I am KD - Back in my college days, I dabbled with coding, learned the basics, HTML, CSS etc. but somehow I ended up in Finance which consumed the next 20 years. Then, during covid I picked up coding again, learned react, typescript, etc - even built a rudimentary site - and then came the chatgpt moment, followed by Claude etc.

So, as a side project, considering that I had spent 20 years in finance and M&A I started building Ekselio, loveable for finance workflows.

Differently from other vibe coding tools, this is local first - meaning the workflows are orchestrated by the LLM based on the file schema but then the execution happens in the browser - the cool thing is that you can see the canvas, the previews of each node, and the code base (SQl) - see the Canvas tab.

That said I did include a home tab, which is more of a visual, mainly because people think it's easier to relate to how folks operate, although I know finance and accounting folks usually like the workflow and full transparency - the other thing is that once you create a workflow you can save it and then next month,you can just click Run and it runs it again with no LLM tokes involved - so the infrastructure is minimal.

Everything can be exported in an excel data pack with M code in case someone would want to reproduce - think Audit ready. And, I also connected to quickbooks on line so someone can directly pull in and manipulate their financials live - I also connected to Fred which carries literally 800k series in terms of macro economic data - i.e. oil prices, inflation, CPI etc and finally to stocks.

I am hoping people find holes in the architecture or any ideas to make this flow a little bit better. It is in progress so if you run into bugs let me know. Considering that I am using my own API key, I have put a wall in case people overuse it but DM me if you would like to continue using, I can turn off the wall for you - hoping to keep that to a small number of users if I can and will do my best. Thank you again, appreciate you taking the time.

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  • adityamishra241

    today at 11:36 AM

    The local-first approach is interesting, especially for finance workflows. Being able to save a workflow and rerun it later without involving the LLM again is a nice touch. Curious to see how this evolves.

      • kdautaj

        today at 11:52 AM

        Thank you. In finance, from my personal experience, no one wants to re-build anything. Once someone creates a workflow, they should be able to re-run it next month. For example, if you build a monthly operating variance report from your quick books, next time, you should just click re-run.

    • jon9544hn

      today at 1:26 AM

      I’ll mess with it!!

        • kdautaj

          today at 1:52 AM

          thank you so much, I really appreciate it

      • yunicc

        today at 1:05 AM

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