Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)
21 points by kdautaj 2 days ago | 6 comments
Hi everyone, I am KD - Back in my college days, I dabbled with coding, learned the basics, HTML, CSS etc. but somehow I ended up in Finance which consumed the next 20 years. Then, during covid I picked up coding again, learned react, typescript, etc - even built a rudimentary site - and then came the chatgpt moment, followed by Claude etc.

So, as a side project, considering that I had spent 20 years in finance and M&A I started building Ekselio, loveable for finance workflows.

Differently from other vibe coding tools, this is local first - meaning the workflows are orchestrated by the LLM based on the file schema but then the execution happens in the browser - the cool thing is that you can see the canvas, the previews of each node, and the code base (SQl) - see the Canvas tab.

That said I did include a home tab, which is more of a visual, mainly because people think it's easier to relate to how folks operate, although I know finance and accounting folks usually like the workflow and full transparency - the other thing is that once you create a workflow you can save it and then next month,you can just click Run and it runs it again with no LLM tokes involved - so the infrastructure is minimal.

Everything can be exported in an excel data pack with M code in case someone would want to reproduce - think Audit ready. And, I also connected to quickbooks on line so someone can directly pull in and manipulate their financials live - I also connected to Fred which carries literally 800k series in terms of macro economic data - i.e. oil prices, inflation, CPI etc and finally to stocks.

I am hoping people find holes in the architecture or any ideas to make this flow a little bit better. It is in progress so if you run into bugs let me know. Considering that I am using my own API key, I have put a wall in case people overuse it but DM me if you would like to continue using, I can turn off the wall for you - hoping to keep that to a small number of users if I can and will do my best. Thank you again, appreciate you taking the time.


adityamishra241 11 hours ago
The local-first approach is interesting, especially for finance workflows. Being able to save a workflow and rerun it later without involving the LLM again is a nice touch. Curious to see how this evolves.
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kdautaj 11 hours ago
Thank you. In finance, from my personal experience, no one wants to re-build anything. Once someone creates a workflow, they should be able to re-run it next month. For example, if you build a monthly operating variance report from your quick books, next time, you should just click re-run.
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tochihenry28 18 minutes ago
the local approach makes a lot of sense for tools like this. will try
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kdautaj 10 minutes ago
That was my thought process, especially if it’s used on system of records (i.e. QuickBooks, Xero, Net Suite, Sage, etc.) - that said, on the UI side , unsure if some one should just land on the canvas or if the home page is the way to go , flashier but unsure on usability / will see :) thank you again for taking the time to try it, really appreciate it
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jon9544hn 21 hours ago
I’ll mess with it!!
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kdautaj 21 hours ago
thank you so much, I really appreciate it
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yunicc 22 hours ago
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