How I work
I write down the real problem before I fix anything.
“The data you think exists in Zoho…
doesn't exist in Zoho.”
- Look for the real problem first.
Month-end numbers took fifteen days. The reporting wasn't the problem: the data lived in ten places. I wrote that down before fixing anything.
Read the memo → - One rule beats four exceptions.
Billing in India, the UK, the Middle East and the US now runs on the same rules. Fewer special cases means fewer things that fail quietly.
- Say what went wrong.
After my first Big-4 audit, I analysed all 1,967 emails to see why it nearly slipped. It wasn't effort, it was timing. So the hard calls moved from December to July.
- If it's idle, it's idle.
My cat app once used 12% of the CPU while doing nothing. "No theatrics," I said. Now it uses almost none.
The day job
Finance in four countries.
At UrbanPiper since 2024, Head of Finance today. Capital, tax, investor diligence, the plan and the monthly close, for four companies in four countries.
- A four-country Big-4 audit in two months. The first under my charge. The usual is six.
- Chartered Accountant, qualified in 2023, after audit and financial reporting work since 2018.
What I built
Atlance.
The software UrbanPiper's finance runs on. It doesn't replace Zoho, Salesforce or Stripe. Every source syncs into one database, and the screens, AI agents and reports sit on top. It retired seven tools and a twenty-one-sheet workbook, and more than thirty teammates use it.
- Operate
- Billing, collections and approvals, run the same way in four countries.
- Analyse
- Cash, plan against actuals, people and cloud cost, read live every morning.
- Report
- Monthly memos drafted from the numbers, and answers in Slack.
How I build
I review every change Claude Code makes.
Solo, while running the finance function. 30 modules and about 4,100 changes since January 18, 2026, the day I opened a GitHub account.
How I work with AI →The path
Ten years.
From commerce at 16, through audit and finance, to designing the systems a business runs on.
- 2016Chose commerce at 16
- 2018Audit: how money really moves through a business
- 2021Led teams building financial statements end to end
- 2024Joined UrbanPiper, finance across four countries
- 2026Built Atlance, by directing Claude Code
- TodayDesigning systems for the whole business
Off hours
A cat that lives on your Mac.
Cataholic is a chunky cat (or a hundred) for your Mac. Eight coats, and the menu takes your cat's colour. Drag a window and a grid fades in to help you line it up; land an edge on a line and your trackpad taps once. It holds up a sign when something needs you. Notarized by Apple, and it updates itself. Wrapped is my first year of building, told as a story.
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