Checking 4 Different Tools to Find 1 Number? Here's a Fix
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Welcome to the latest edition of The Aryng Dispatch.
We have been up to some truly exciting things at Aryng and AskEnola.ai this month! Let’s kick things off with a note from our CEO, Piyanka Jain:
From the CEO’s Desk
Right now, half our team is on vacation (mentally, if not physically), the other half is glued to the World Cup, and somehow this has been one of our most productive months all year. Turns out watching penalty shootouts is decent training for sitting through a board deck review without flinching.
Meanwhile, I’ve spent the summer developing frameworks that can help finance teams actually come to trust AI systems, instead of just tolerating them, and the honest answer is that most companies haven’t gotten there yet. That gap is exactly what we built AskEnola to close, and this month’s updates push us further into it.
More below. Enjoy what’s left of your summer, and if your office bracket pool has a winner, we want the full debrief.
Warm regards,
Piyanka Jain, CEO, AskEnola & Aryng
What’s Brewing at Aryng
Dig Deep Into Your Metrics
We shipped a dedicated metrics dashboard, and it does something spreadsheets have never quite managed: it holds your entire financial story in one place without falling apart the second someone adds a filter.
MRR schedule, bookings, retention, and P&L now sit behind clean tabs, with every summary number one click away from the transaction-level detail that built it.
Nobody has to ping an analyst to ask where a number came from anymore. You can see for yourself.
Set Alerts and Never Be Taken By Surprise
Nobody wants to discover their contract value dropped below plan three weeks after it happened. The new alerts feature lets you set upper and lower bounds on any metric that matters to you and flags the moment something breaches them, whether that’s a slow week of new contracts or churn creeping up faster than expected.
Set it once, then get back to running the business instead of babysitting a dashboard.
Here’s an Interesting Thing You Must Read, or Watch, or Listen
Skip this one if you enjoy vague reassurances from AI vendors.
We break down why “are we using AI in finance?” is the wrong question, and lay out five sharper ones to ask instead, along with a three-zone framework for deciding which tasks AI should fully own, which need a mandatory human sign-off, and which should stay entirely human-led. There’s also a four-test vendor audit you can run live in your next demo, including one question that tends to change the energy in the room fast.
Bookmark it before your next AI vendor call.