Vol.047 — Week 2 of Going AI Native: I Didn’t Map the Work. My Accountants Did — With Claude.
Date: 2026-06-19 | Newsletter
Key Summary
In Vol.047, Zenta files Week 2 of Functional AI Partners’ public “Project AI Native” — the 12-week effort to take DCC Corporate Services, his Singapore accounting firm run day to day by director Getty, to 10x capacity, accounting domain first. Again, zero AI agents were built. Instead, four of his people — three from Data Entry, one from Review and Report — sat with Claude and produced detailed operation maps of the monthly close, each step tagged with its inputs, outputs, exact tool, and a quality check. Week 2’s job was hunting the “copy and paste,” and the team logged eight such motions — only to find judgment hiding inside each one: matching a FAST service charge to its principal transaction, picking the right GST code (TX9, SR9, ZR, N-T), choosing whether a client uses the UOB, MAS, or headquarters FX rate. The lesson: capture the buried decision before automating, or the machine pastes confidently and wrongly. Citing Werner Vogels’ “Renaissance Developer,” Zenta runs it in reverse — turning his accountants into builders rather than teaching coders accounting. Do it simple. Don’t teach your coders your business — teach your business experts to build.