How Claude Code Is Transforming Finance

Brooker Belcourt (head of financial services consulting at Every) argues that ChatGPT and Claude chat interfaces only deliver a fraction of what LLMs can do. The piece makes the case for Claude Code as a step-change tool for finance professionals who are not developers -- moving from simple Q&A to building automated workflows for earnings analysis, financial modeling, and competitive research.

The article positions Claude Code not as a coding tool but as an orchestration layer that lets domain experts in finance direct AI agents to build the specific tooling their work demands.

RDCO mapping: Validates the "non-technical power user" thesis we see in our own consulting. The finance vertical case studies could inform how we position data services for financial clients. The distinction between chat-based AI use and agentic AI use is one we should make explicit in Sanity Check.