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How the engine reads your books

Plain-language notes from the AI.FO team on how the engine reads accounting data: what fail-closed means, what a labeled proxy is, and how the signal library is held up. These posts teach and point into the library; they do not pitch beyond what is shipped.

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Methodology2026-08-10

Why founder financial signals should fail closed

When a number cannot be supported by the books, the honest move is to withhold it, not to estimate it. Here is what fail-closed means for the signals AI.FO computes.

Signals2026-08-10

What a labeled proxy is, and why retention from a general ledger must be one

Retention tells you whether the customers you already had are staying and growing. A general ledger was never built to answer that, so AI.FO labels the read a proxy and says so.

Signals2026-08-10

Reading owner pay honestly: two legs, and why one is suppressed for QuickBooks imports

Owner pay can be read in both directions: taking too much out, or paying yourself too little. AI.FO reads what the books can support and suppresses the leg they cannot.