I set up Claude Cowork as a CFO analyst

The whole setup took less than 15 minutes. I gave it a folder, three files, and two data exports. Then I asked it to reconcile my vendor spend and build a dashboard I can reuse every month.

Knowing that finance is changing isn't enough.

You need to see it working.

I’m going to show you what I built for CFOs to use inside a real finance workflow.

I took Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s new desktop tool, and configured it as a member of my finance team.

I gave it a workspace folder, three markdown files, and two data exports. Then I asked it to run…