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    Track the close checklist across entities and surface blockers by exception.

    LLM workflowAutonomy: Act and notifySpeedRisk & ControlHigh effortOrg maturity: AugmentedCFO
    What changed

    The close calendar is a rules problem: dependencies, owners and due dates are known in advance, so a workflow engine tracks task state, chases owners and escalates whatever blocks the critical path. Generative AI adds the daily status, a drafted summary of what is late, why, and what it holds up, so the controller's status meeting becomes an exception review.

    How it's built

    LLM workflow (rung 4 of 6). A coded control path: chain, router, parallel fan-out, evaluator-optimizer.

    Not an agent: the sequence of steps is fixed in advance, so the whole path can be tested end to end.

    A language model handles step 4. Rules: steps 1, 2, 3 and 5.

    Autonomy: T3 · Act and notify
    Acts within limits and reports afterwards. Reversible actions only. Human role: monitors, samples, and can reverse.
    How it is governed
    The path is testable end to end. Each step is independently evaluable.
    What the certification exams call this
    • Anthropic (Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F))Workflow: models and tools on predefined code paths (chaining, routing, parallelization, evaluator-optimizer). source
    • OpenAI (OpenAI agent guidance (Agents SDK, Codex, OpenAI Academy))Orchestrating via code, which the Agents SDK calls more deterministic and predictable. source
    • Google Cloud (Generative AI Leader)Workflow agents (sequential, parallel, loop) that run steps in a fixed order. source
    • Microsoft (AI-901 (Azure AI Fundamentals) and AB-100 (Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect))Sequential and concurrent orchestration patterns, with steps in a set order. source

    How Koko classifies AI · the full ladder is taught in AI & Agentic Delivery Foundations.

    Modeled value on KokoAI

    Synthetic KokoAI figures — a demo fixture, not audited or a guarantee

    Days-to-close
    8 → 4 days
    lower is better
    Recurring impact
    $3.5M/yr
    run-rate benefit
    Payback
    5 months
    ≈ 12,000 hrs/yr reclaimed

    Days-to-close 8→4 turns the controller's status meeting into an exception review; ≈12,000 close-team hours/yr shift to analysis — ≈$3.5M/yr of recovered capacity.

    Run this in Claude on KokoAI's data

    Opens your own Claude with the prompt and KokoAI's month-end close checklist pre-loaded as text — no upload, no setup. Tailor it live to your own numbers.

    Try it

    Illustrative demo

    KokoAI's month-end close across 3 entities. The workflow tracks the checklist, escalates the blocked intercompany elimination, and drafts the status — the controller reviews and locks. Edit the inputs to tailor the output — it's baked synthetic data, so nothing leaves your browser until you run it live.

    Run live in Claude
    Sample data

    Month-End Close Checklist (synthetic) — grab the one-pager PDF (the ROI, the data, and the prompt on one sheet) to share or keep, or the raw CSV / Markdown to drag into Claude or Microsoft Copilot. The prompt hand-off above already includes the same data as text.

    Synthetic KokoAI demo data — not audited

    Run it on your own document

    Drop a PDF, Excel, Word, CSV, or text file (e.g. a 10-Q, an AR aging, an invoice register) and we'll run this use case on it. Your file is read in your browser and never uploaded — only the extracted text goes into your own Claude or Copilot.

    Choose a file or drop it herePDF · XLSX · DOCX · CSV · TXT · up to 15 MB

    Read in-browser · not uploaded · 10-Q/10-K trimmed to financials + MD&A

    Workflow

    1. 1.RulesLoad the close calendar, task dependencies and entity scope.
    2. 2.RulesTrack each task's state (Planned → In Progress → Blocked → Complete → Locked).
    3. 3.RulesDetect overdue or blocked tasks and notify owners with the specific blocker.
    4. 4.Generative AIDraft a daily close-status summary for the controller.
    5. 5.RulesEscalate items that breach the critical path. The system never approves or posts a journal.

    Prompt recipe

    You track the monthly close. Given the task list with owners, due dates and dependencies, report tasks that are overdue or blocked, identify critical-path risks, draft owner reminders, and produce a 5-bullet close-status summary. Escalate — do not resolve — anything requiring an accounting judgment.
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    Controls required
    • The workflow can read status and notify, but cannot post or approve journals
    • Accounting judgments and final lock remain human-approved
    • All escalations and notifications logged
    • Human-in-the-loop on every state change that affects the ledger
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