Its agents clean the chart of accounts, build the eliminations, draft a report pack, then diagnose a consolidated balance sheet that will not balance. It names whether the cause is rounding, a source ledger, an adjustment or a missing elimination, and where in the group it went wrong.
Kendrick Hair of Fishbowl reads it through an ERP and inventory lens: the more structured the operational data underneath, the more useful this gets.
John Toon likes that Joiin are not asking you to run every report out of a chat box. He remembers early Jax, where asking about profit took longer than clicking the report. Chat as the report runner is a bad idea. Chat as the thing that finds the broken consolidation is a good one.
He also raises where the data physically goes once a firm hands it to a model, and why Joiin building on AWS matters to anyone with GDPR to answer to.
From the episode with John Toon, Kendrick Hair of Fishbowl and Leigh Stallard.
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