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Can you run it through ai as a final last step.
Interesting thought — I actually explored that route for a bit. The tricky part I ran into was that tables are so varied (subtotals, multiple columns, odd formatting) that LLMs struggled to consistently identify what the real total should be.
Also in deals work you sometimes need something you can point to as evidence that the check actually happened… “ran it through AI” is a bit of a hard one to defend if someone asks 😅
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You learned your lesson, happens to everyone at some point.
True! Argh. Quality of life would be much better without the constant anxiousness from it though 😂
It happens to everyone and traditionally that's why PA separates preparer and reviewer. Preparer is always bias towards their own work. Whenever you think you're ready to send, perform the same 15-30 min review that you would do if your senior or associate sent the file to you.
Yeahhh! I agree. Self review is a must. I find that it makes the errors much better. But every so often a “resilient” error is caught much further up the chain!
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It happens even with multiple review layers. Just a part of life. Hopefully with a client that isn’t awful to work with
lol!!! Yeah, it feels like it’s a part of life in deals. Still quite a bit of a nightmare when you caught on it depending on the client.
Yeah agreed it’s part of the job — errors happen every so often. That moment hung onto me though… it honestly felt borderline career-limiting. The client was important and the feedback ended up with my performance manager! lol
After that I started experimenting to find a way to “solve” the problem. Landed on using my phone to verify totals directly from the page — quick photo, check the numbers as they appear.
Been building it over the last few months and its turned into a proper little app. Happy to share if curious.
Since quite a few people here mentioned running into the same issue, I thought I’d share what I ended up experimenting with after that QoE incident.
It turned into a small mobile tool that verifies totals and KPIs directly from the page — basically checking the numbers exactly as they appear rather than relying on the spreadsheet formulas.
Everything runs fully on-device as well, so nothing leaves the phone.
Sharing the link here in case anyone’s curious: apps.apple.com/gb/app/casterly/id6752854786
Feel free to message if you have any questions.
This was absolutely a sales pitch all along. Nicely done.