CFOs can build a forecasting app in 5 minutes with ChatGPT 4.1
The new CFO is emerging.
You needed a new forecasting tool. Or a dashboard to monitor costs. Or just a tool that would automate those same manual reports you run every month. Something to make your life easier. Something that would give your team time to focus on strategic work instead of stitching together numbers.
Yesterday, OpenAI released ChatGPT 4.1. It’s engineered to help one kind of user: the builder. Optimized for a single purpose: Building apps.
It’s not just for writing code snippets. But full, end-to-end apps. Complete with user interfaces. Clean data visualizations. Forecast logic. Hosting instructions. And interactive dashboards.
This changes everything for finance.
Because CFOs don’t have to wait anymore for IT.
You can seriously build apps and get ahead in the AI world.
You can move from bottlenecks to independence. From asking to shipping. From static spreadsheets to live, intelligent financial tools.
And the best part is you can do it without knowing how to code.
Which means that if you can describe the problem clearly, you can now build the solution.
So I went ahead and built a forecasting app for CFOs in 5 minutes.
Consider this letter a response to the Fiverr, Spotify and Duolingo CEOs, who are yelling at people to use AI or you’ll get doomed.
Finance won’t be doomed.
How To Build a Forecasting App in 5 minutes
Open ChatGPT 4.1 Upload CSV and COPY-PASTE the prompt below.
Explore GPTs and pick the right one (explained below)
Deploy it.
It’s easy. Let’s dive in.
1. Open ChatGPT 4.1
The new GPT-4.1 is better at following instructions, writing code, and understanding long, complex inputs. It’s built to solve real-world problems and power smarter, more useful AI tools.