Memos, postmortems, narratives.
Documentation as discipline, not decoration. Written while running finance for a four-country function — and increasingly, while building the system underneath it.
Why MIS Takes 15 Days (and how we're fixing it)
Finance memo to the founder, written in tech terms: ten cases where expense data leaks across vendor systems, Pazy queues, Excel, and people's heads. Each one diagnosed as a state machine problem, schema mismatch, or missing webhook.
ReadFY26 Audit Prep — Lessons from FY25
A four-thousand-word postmortem written after closing the FY25 statutory audit. Methodology debates, version-control failures, the audit-night 5-emails-after-9pm reality. With a plan for FY26 that removes them.
The Finance Transformation, Mani × the Founder
An AI read every Slack DM between me and the founder from June 2025 to March 2026. No cherry-picking, no editing. Inheritance. Standards getting set. The audit crucible. The two-week WFH that became Atlance.