AI.FO BLOG
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.
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.
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.
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.