"Did we forget something?" – How AI Smashed Our Month-End and Landed Me a Global Workshop

Sometimes you just have to stop talking, take action, and prove what is possible.

Tonight, I’m sitting with my laptop finishing up a PowerPoint presentation. Tomorrow, I am hosting a Global Copilot Cowork Workshop for colleagues across multiple departments and countries.

Looking back, things have moved at absolute lightning speed.

The Timeline

March: I started experimenting with Claude Code and joined this amazing community shortly after.

May 4th: I had a high-level meeting with our global Head of AI. He gave me the green light to use Copilot Cowork since Claude Code isn't corporate-approved yet.

Today: I'm teaching others how to do what I just did.

In just a short month and a half, I’ve built several custom skills focused entirely on our hardest finance bottlenecks. And the timing couldn't have been better.

The Ultimate Test: A Compressed Month-End

We were recently acquired, which meant our standard 6-day month-end closing window was aggressively cut down to just 4 days. Normally, this would mean pure panic and stress. We had never missed a deadline, but we always had to fight for it.

During the May closing, I put my new Copilot skills to work.

The result? It went so smoothly that on day 4, my boss literally looked at me and asked: "Did we forget something?"

Normally, she works grueling hours, staying up late to log back on after putting her kids to bed. Not this time. I only had to work a truly long day on Day 1. Day 2 was slightly extended, and Days 3 and 4 were completely normal, quiet, peaceful workdays. We smashed a compressed timeline with zero stress.

Tomorrow's Mission: Giving Back

Tomorrow, I'm stepping up to the whiteboard. I'm running a workshop to show people what this tech can actually do.

We are going to build a "light" finance skill together from scratch. The core lesson is simple but powerful: How to feed raw data into an AI agent and get a perfectly formatted, HQ-compliant report out the other side.

What the Future Holds

This is turning into something much bigger. I’m currently in dialogue with my boss about doing internal consulting for other departments and countries to help them automate their own bottlenecks. She loves the idea but values my current output so much she doesn't want to lose me in my day job.

My solution? I told her I’d gladly spend my evenings building these automations after my own kids are in bed—as long as the company compensates me for the consulting hours, of course! I love solving these puzzles and eliminating "træls" manual work.

Wish me luck tomorrow. I’ll drop an update on how the workshop went!

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"Did we forget something?" – How AI Smashed Our Month-End and Landed Me a Global Workshop