AI in Finance has a Deployment Problem

A couple of prompts, and you have a beautiful dashboard and Python code powering what used to be painstaking manual work. Now, where do you ship it?

Jul 29 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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June 2026

AI spend is getting real. Here’s how finance teams should think about it.

If you missed the Lumera Live webinar last week, we talked about a question that is starting to show up everywhere: how do we actually optimize AI…

Jun 23 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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Lumera Live Recap: AI Agents + Integrations

How AI agents can automate end-to-end finance workflows across tools like Slack, Lumera, and NetSuite.

Jun 10 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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Build Once. Run Every Close.

What we built in this week's Lumera Live: a PO accrual workflow connected to NetSuite, with a reusable month-end run path.

Jun 3 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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May 2026

I built a Slackbot that talks to NetSuite

Here’s what it taught me about building AI agents for accounting

May 19 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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April 2026

How to Build AI Finance Apps on Lumera

A practical blueprint for building AI apps to automate finance and accounting workflows

Apr 20 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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March 2026

You Have Systems of Record. You Don’t Have a System of Work.

Why AI hasn’t moved the needle yet for most finance teams, and what to do about it.

Mar 22 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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Automate the Boring Stuff

A Python book changed how I thought about finance work. Lumera is what I wished existed back then.

Mar 13 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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February 2026

Finance Is Vibecoding Now. Here’s What That Actually Means.

We’ve been using Lumera to ship enterprise AI automations for finance teams.

Feb 27 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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January 2026

AI in Finance Has Evolved. Most Teams Haven’t.

Lessons from putting AI into real finance operations

Jan 22 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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October 2025

Excel’s New Agent Mode is Really Good

Microsoft recently shipped something big in Excel: Agent Mode.

Oct 10, 2025 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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September 2025

Betting on Yourself, Building From First Principles: Figma CFO Praveer Melwani

In this latest episode of the Lumera Podcast, I sat down for a conversation with Praveer Melwani, CFO of Figma. Praveer joined Figma when the company…

Sep 19, 2025 • Sowmya Ranganathan

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