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Can AI build your financial model and get your numbers ready for due diligence?

AI is a strong editor and a weak author of financial models: it explains concepts, stress-tests assumptions, and drafts scenario logic well, but it hallucinates spreadsheet structure, so the pattern that works is starting from a proven template and using Claude or ChatGPT to customize and interrogate it. Founders also use AI to pre-run diligence on themselves, checking that ARR definitions, SAFE dilution math, and the cap table hold up before an investor's model finds the gaps.

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