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A good prompt saves one person a few minutes. A good automation saves the whole team hours every week, on every deal, without anyone having to remember to run it. Deal teams do not lose time for lack of clever wording in a chat box. They lose it to rework, version drift, manual data entry and handoffs that fall between people.
Financely works as an AI automation consultant for investment banks, advisory boutiques, lenders and deal teams. We automate a workflow, check every output against the result your team expects, then improve it through a feedback loop until it runs reliably. This guide explains how that works and lists the tasks we automate most often.
Prompts versus automations
A prompt is a one-off instruction typed by one person into one tool. The output depends on who wrote it, how they phrased it and whether they remembered to check the result. An automation is a defined workflow. It starts on a trigger, such as a new email, a new file in the data room or a calendar event. It pulls data from your systems, runs the AI step, applies your rules and delivers the result to the right person or system, the same way every time.
Question
AI prompt
AI workflow automation
Who runs it?
Whoever remembers to
Runs on a trigger, every time
Consistency
Varies by person and wording
Same steps, same format, same checks
Data access
Copy and paste into a chat window
Connected to your CRM, inbox, data room and drives with set permissions
Quality control
Depends on the user
Built-in checks, human approval where it matters
Audit trail
Usually none
Logged inputs, outputs and approvals
How we work as automation consultants
We do not sell software licences and we are not tied to one vendor. We map how your team actually works, identify the steps that are repetitive and rule-based, and build automations on top of the tools you already use, adding new ones only where they close a real gap. You keep ownership of the workflows, the accounts and the data.
Our background is deal execution in trade finance, project finance, private credit and capital raising. We know what an information memorandum, a lender tracker or a credit memo needs to look like, so we can judge whether an automated output is usable or just fast.
Automate, check, improve
Every engagement follows the same loop. No automation goes live on trust alone.
01
Automate
We map the workflow with the people who do it today, define the trigger, the inputs, the rules and the expected output, then build the automation and connect it to your systems with the minimum access it needs.
02
Check
We run the automation alongside your team on real work and compare every output against what an experienced analyst would have produced. Errors, missing fields and formatting issues are logged. Steps that carry client or credit risk keep a human approval before anything leaves the firm.
03
Improve
Your team flags what was wrong or slow, and we adjust the instructions, the rules, the data sources or the workflow itself. The loop repeats until error rates are low enough that the team trusts the output, and continues afterwards as deals, templates and tools change.
What can be automated
These are the workflows we automate most often for deal teams. Most firms start with three or four and add more once the first ones run cleanly.
Deal origination and CRM
Inbound enquiry triage, scoring and routing to the right banker
Automatic CRM entry from emails, forms and call notes
Lender and investor matching against mandate criteria
Personalised outreach drafts and follow-up reminders
Pipeline status updates and weekly pipeline reports
Due diligence and data rooms
Data room indexing and document classification
Missing document checklists and automatic chasers
Key term extraction from contracts, leases and loan agreements
Version comparison and change summaries
KYC and onboarding document collection
Models, memos and decks
Financial statement spreading into your model template
Model QA checks for broken links, sign errors and hard-codes
First drafts of teasers, credit memos and information memoranda
Deck formatting, consistency checks and number tie-outs
Comparable company and transaction data pulls from approved sources
Meetings and email
Meeting transcription with decisions, owners and deadlines
Action items pushed straight into your task tracker
Long thread summaries and "what changed" notes
Status update drafts for clients and counterparties
Inbox sorting by deal, priority and required action
Reporting and compliance
Lender and investor tracker updates
Portfolio and covenant monitoring reports
Sanctions and adverse media screening workflows
Conflict check requests and logging
Audit trails of who approved what, and when
Back office
Engagement letter and NDA generation from templates
Invoice creation, payment reminders and reconciliation
Expense capture and categorisation
Document filing and naming conventions across drives
Internal knowledge search across past mandates and templates
Controls for live deal data
Automations on live deals handle material non-public information, client data and personal data. Speed is worthless if it creates a confidentiality breach. Every automation we build is scoped with access limited to the folders and systems it needs, logs of inputs, outputs and approvals, retention settings that match your policies, and human sign-off before anything is sent outside the firm.
If a tool cannot show where it stores data, who accessed it and how long it keeps it, it does not belong on a live deal.
We check this before anything is connected, and we work within your internal confidentiality and data handling rules.
Where a small team should start
Start where the hours are.
For most deal teams that is meeting capture, CRM entry and document chasing. These are frequent, low-risk and easy to check, so the feedback loop gets going quickly.
Then move to drafting and QA.
Once the team trusts the first automations, add first drafts of memos and decks, and model QA checks, with human approval kept in place.
Then connect the pieces.
Knowledge search across past mandates, lender matching and reporting work best once the underlying data is clean and flowing automatically.
Get a quote for your automation project
Tell us which workflows take up most of your team's time, which tools you use today, and roughly how many people are involved. We will come back with a scope, a timeline and a fixed quote.
What is the difference between AI prompts and AI workflow automation?
A prompt is a one-off instruction one person types into a tool. An automation is a defined workflow that runs on a trigger, pulls data from your systems, applies your rules and delivers the output the same way every time, with logs and approvals.
Do AI automations replace analysts?
No. They remove repetitive work such as data entry, chasing documents and first drafts. Judgment, client relationships, sourcing and final review stay with the deal team.
How do you make sure the automations are accurate?
We automate, check and improve. Each automation runs alongside your team on real work, every output is compared with what an experienced analyst would produce, and we refine it through a feedback loop until the error rate is acceptable. Risky steps keep a human approval.
Can automations be used safely on live deals?
Yes, if access is limited to what each automation needs, inputs and outputs are logged, retention follows your policies, and a person approves anything sent outside the firm.
Do we need to buy new software?
Usually not. We build on the tools you already use wherever possible and only recommend new tools where they close a real gap.
How do we get a quote?
Email contact@financely.io with the workflows you want to automate, the tools you use and the size of your team. We reply with a scope, a timeline and a fixed quote.
This article is general information only and is not legal, regulatory, tax or investment advice. Tool availability and features vary by vendor and configuration. Automations are designed to operate within your firm's confidentiality, data protection and record-keeping policies, which remain your responsibility. No specific time saving or outcome is guaranteed.
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