8d (edited) • Show & Tell
What Claude actually did when I shipped a 305-page book this week
▎ EDIT (4 May): Amazon terminated my KDP account on Saturday. Book is now at
https://payhip.com/b/VpTj3 — see [this post](link to your new update) for
the story.
I shipped a 305-page book this week.
"Rewiring Corporate Finance", a blueprint for what the finance function becomes when AI moves from pilot to load-bearing.
12 chapters, 9 custom diagrams, EU AI Act compliance map and a 12-month execution plan for CFOs
When I say I used Claude, people assume it wrote the book.
It didn’t. I have over 15 years inside finance at Philips and Vodafone.The seat and the judgment are mine.
What Claude actually did was this:
1. Pressure-tested the thinking: Every chapter had a thesis. I made Claude argue against it before I wrote.Some ideas held. Others didn’t.
2. Cut the corporate voice: Anything that sounded like a consulting deck got flagged.The writing is tighter because of that.
3. Handled the messy production layer: Cover math. Spine width. EPUB. KDP formatting. Claude wrote the Python to turn the draft into something uploadable.That’s where most people get stuck.
4. Turned ideas into diagrams : I described the systems. It generated clean visuals I could actually use.
What it didn’t do:
The experience.The opinions.The calls on what goes agent-first vs stays human.
If you’ve ever thought about writing a book:
This is way more doable now than it was even a year ago.
If you want, I can break down exactly how I went from idea to published. Just DM me.
And if you’re building AI skills on top of your current finance role:
Comment on this post and I’ll send you the PDF of Chapter 9.
It covers:
- the four literacies (finance, data, AI, programming)
- the hybrid finance-developer profile
- why the junior pipeline is going to change
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What Claude actually did when I shipped a 305-page book this week
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