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In this episode, Corey Ganim and guest Mike Dion discuss building a fully functional AI agent finance department using N8n, including the creation of a CFO agent and sub-agents.

I brought on Mike Dion, a senior corporate finance professional who has helped automate more than 100,000 hours of work out of finance processes, to walk through how to build a fully functional AI agent finance department inside N8n — from scratch, with no coding background required. We build a CFO agent named Charles, give him a team of specialist sub-agents (FP&A, Accounting, and Treasury), and watch the delegation logic in action as Charles routes questions to the right specialist instead of answering everything himself. Mike also breaks down how to use ChatGPT to write your own system prompts, why you should give the CFO a reasoning model while using cheaper models for the sub-agents, and how to publish the finished chat so your whole team can access it. By the end of this episode, you'll have everything you need to replicate this AI finance department in under 45 minutes. Timestamps 00:00 – Intro 00:03 – What we're building: AI CFO inside N8n 00:23 – Mike's background and 100,000 hours of automation 00:52 – Why N8n over Make, Zapier, or Power Automate 02:00 – Setting up the chat trigger and naming the CFO 05:00 – Using ChatGPT to write the CFO system prompt 08:52 –…

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