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Most of what is written about AI in finance is written for the buyer.
A vendor's launch post is written for the bank deciding whether to license the tool. A bank's announcement is written for its shareholders and the press. Almost none of it is written for the person applying for the job the tool is meant to change. That person is who this site is for.
What changes on the candidate's side
A junior in finance has always been paid for first drafts: the comparable companies table, the first pass of a model, the notes from a client call, the pitch book page nobody senior wants to build. That is exactly the kind of work the banks' in-house AI assistants were built to take on. JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have each put one in front of their staff, and drafting and summarising sit near the top of what each one is described as doing.
So the part of the job worth proving has moved. Turning out the draft counts for less than it did. Checking it, explaining it to a client and noticing when it is quietly wrong count for more. The banks have said far more about training new staff on these tools than about testing candidates for them, which leaves a candidate to work the rest out alone. Closing that gap is the point of every guide here.
Two kinds of reader
The first is anyone trying to get into finance while the entry-level job is redesigned around them: students, analysts in their first years, and people switching in from another career. They need to know which tools a junior actually opens, what each bank built for its own people, and how to talk about both without sounding like a press release.
The second is the engineer heading the other way, into an AI role at a bank, a fund or a vendor that sells to them. Engineers usually know the models better than anyone in the room and the business less well: why a banker cares where every number came from, why compliance gets a say in which tools are allowed, and why a correct answer with no source behind it is no use in a client document.
The guides are written for readers wherever the large banks and funds hire, not for one country's recruiting calendar.
What the site covers
Each section answers one question a candidate or an engineer brings to the subject.
The Tools
AI Tools in Finance
The AI software a junior in finance actually touches, what each tool does, and what you are expected to know about it before your first day.
The Roles
AI Jobs in Finance
The AI jobs finance hires for, by title: what each seat does, who hires for it, how it differs from a quant role, and what the interview tests.
Getting Hired
AI Skills for Finance Jobs
What banks and funds now expect a candidate to know about AI, what the analyst job looks like as it changes, and the projects that prove the skill.
The Banks
AI in Investment Banking
What each bank built in-house, who runs it, how many people use it, and what it changes about a junior banker's week.
Private Equity
AI in Private Equity
How buyout firms use AI across a deal, from EQT's Motherbrain to Apollo's value creation team, and what an associate is expected to do with it.
How the guides are written
The product, by name
A guide says which tool, who makes it and what it does to a junior's working day. "AI is transforming finance" is not a sentence anyone can use in an interview. "The bank's assistant drafts the first version and the analyst is the one who checks it" is.
Whose claim it is
A bank describing what it built, a vendor describing what it sells and a reporter describing an internal memo are three different kinds of evidence. Every guide says which one it is leaning on, and a sales claim never stands in for a result.
Written to outlast the launch
Product names change and user counts climb month by month, so a guide leans on what a tool does and why the firm built it, the parts that still hold after the next rename. A number that keeps moving is given as what someone said and when, not as a fact that stays put.
Written and edited under the pen name Lena Arkwright. The editorial standards set out how each claim is sourced and checked, and where AI tools are part of the work. The company that publishes the site is named in the Impressum.
Start with what you will use.
The tools a junior opens first, the AI jobs by title, what the banks built, and how buyout firms use AI across a deal.