The Kyootek course · 32 lessons

Close Your Books 3x Faster with AI

Automate your month-end close, generate board-ready reports in minutes, and master ChatGPT, Claude & Excel Copilot — with real workflows and spreadsheets.

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Lesson 14 · advanced · 9 min

Variance commentary that writes itself

Account

Actual

Budget

Revenue · EMEA

$1,248,902

$1,180,000

+5.8%

Revenue · AMER

$2,041,200

$2,100,000

−2.8%

COGS

−$842,011

−$820,000

−2.7%

SG&A

−$310,500

−$325,000

+4.5%

Claude · drafted commentary

"EMEA outperformed budget by $68,902 on stronger UK enterprise renewals, partially offset by an AMER shortfall of $58,800 tied to a delayed Q4 booking now slipped to January."

Trusted by controllers at

Northwind

Acme Holdings

Vector Capital

Lattice & Co

Meridian

Hartfield

Real spreadsheets

Every lesson ships with the actual workbook — TB, JE log, intercompany matrix — and the Claude prompt you can lift verbatim.

Full close coverage

TB import to variance memo. 32 lessons cover reconciliation, accruals, flux, FX, intercompany, and reporting.

Lifetime + updates

One payment. Claude, Copilot, and Gemini lessons added as features ship — no annual renewal.

The curriculum

Six modules. Thirty-two lessons. One close, automated.

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Foundations

Claude for finance: prompts, context windows, when to trust output.

5 lessons

TB import & reconciliation

From raw export to reconciled trial balance in under ten minutes.

6 lessons

Intercompany & FX

Match, eliminate, revalue. The piece that breaks most closes.

5 lessons

Accruals & cutoffs

Subscription accrual logic, prepaid amortization, cutoff testing.

4 lessons

Variance & commentary

Flux analysis with Claude. Writing the memo the CFO actually reads.

6 lessons

Reporting pack

Board deck, audit binder, lender package — generated, not assembled.

6 lessons

From the field

“We went from a 9-day close to 4. Variance commentary used to be the bottleneck — now it's drafted before I finish reconciliation. The course paid for itself in the first month.”

Ava Reyes

Controller · Northwind Software

Pricing

One price. Forever.

Individual

$497one-time

For controllers running closes solo or leading small teams.

32 lessons across 6 modules
Real spreadsheets & prompt library
Lifetime access + all updates
Claude, Copilot, Gemini coverage
Private community access

Enroll

Team · 5 seats

$1,997one-time

For finance teams ramping the close together. Shared workbook library.

Everything in Individual
5 named seats (add at $349/seat)
Team progress dashboard
Slack onboarding session
Annual office hours with the instructor

Enroll team

Includes new lessons as Claude, Copilot, and Gemini ship features. 30-day refund if it's not for you.

Frequently asked

The questions controllers ask before enrolling

No. Lesson 1 is a Claude crash course built specifically for finance work — context windows, prompt patterns, when to verify output. By lesson 4 you'll be running it like a third spreadsheet tab.

Every workflow is taught for Claude as primary, with Copilot and Gemini variants for Microsoft and Google environments. The underlying patterns translate.

Yes. Every lesson ships with the actual workbook (anonymized) — TB exports, JE logs, intercompany matrices, the full reporting pack.

Pay once. All current lessons, all future lessons, all updates as Claude, Copilot, and Gemini ship new capabilities. No annual fee, no renewal.

Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. After that, no refunds — but you keep access regardless.

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