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Geoffrey Doempke

Finance, software, and the space between.

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I Stopped Building AI Tools. I'm Hiring Them.

This is what changed. Three months ago I was building AI tools for myself. A month ago I was building them for my coworkers. Today I’m building them for my bots. Each phase felt obvious at the time, and each one was wrong in a way I couldn&

I Did My Taxes with Claude. Here's What Happened.

It’s tax day — so, shoutout to my tax friends. I hope you get some sleep tonight. I got mine done. Twice, actually: once with Claude, once with TurboTax, then reconciled the two side-by-side to the dollar. I was curious how AI would handle a workflow we all

I Automated Myself Out of a Job (And Into the Job Finance Leaders Are Supposed to Be Doing)

I Automated Myself Out of a Job (And Into the Job Finance Leaders Are Supposed to Be Doing) As a finance person at a startup, the first time I wrote a SQL query that generated my company's income statement straight from Postgres, I felt like a superhero. That

It's Not About the AI — It's About What You Feed It

The response to my first post was overwhelming — and it made one thing clear: people are at very different stages of understanding what’s happening with AI right now. Some of you are building agents and shipping code. Others are just getting started. So here’s what

What Happened to Software is Happening to Finance and Accounting

I've never been one to write publicly. But something has shifted that I can't keep to myself. What happened to software is now happening to finance. And if you work in either world, the ground is moving under you.