Ahikam Kaufman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
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One of the things that stroke me, if you think about it, when I worked in finance in a few public companies, I had the chance to work in four public companies, finance always have the notion of close.
But for several weeks, every quarter, everyone is heads down, closing the books.
You can't take vacations.
It's almost like you're nailed to your chair, so to speak, consumed in processes that basically requires you to validate the data, document what you're doing,
create a set of analytics, all kinds of repetitive work, which AI can immensely help to solve.
And I just thought it could be different.
My name is Aykam Kaufman.
I'm the co-founder and CEO of SafeBooks AI.
As a co-founder of Check, we built a mobile payment system which we sold to Intuit.
And then when I got into Intuit, I started working very closely also with the finance team of Intuit.
I got more and more exposed to some of the challenges finance people have when they have to deal with a lot of data, let alone fintech companies who process, let's say, payment processors, things like that.
and learn how do you get your arms around the compliance and regulatory requirement while you help to run a business which is very complex from a data standpoint.
And I started to think about how automation can help in that.
Obviously, during that time, we used to talk about AI, but it was more like machine learning.
And after the first models came out towards the end of 2022, I thought that it's going to get even better.
I always say, at least in my humble opinion, that where we are now is like we're looking at the Ford Model T and we're really excited about the car, but the car is going to get much better in a couple of years down the road.
So we think it's like super innovative, but I think AI is going to look even better every few months that goes by.
So we think we're excited, but we're going to be even more excited as things move along.
And when the first model came out, I realized that we have now a way and we have the technology to be able to solve some of the complex problems around how do you manage data in the office of the CFO.
One of the things that stroke me, if you think about it, when I worked in finance in a few public companies, I had the chance to work in four public companies, finance always have the notion of close.
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