Your books, next to the economy
Are suppliers raising prices faster than inflation? Is your growth real or just CPI? Put QuickBooks data and public economic series in the same analysis.
Your P&L says materials costs are up 14%. The question that matters — is that your suppliers, or is that everyone? — needs an economic series next to your books, and that comparison almost never gets built because it means merging a FRED download with a QuickBooks export by hand.
On the canvas it's one analysis: your books on one side, a public series (CPI, PPI, wage indices, rates — e.g. a CSV from FRED) on the other, joined by month. The join, the indexing, and the comparison are all visible SQL.
The prompt
“Chart my materials costs by month against the producer price index — are my suppliers raising prices faster than inflation?”
Index both series to a common month ("index both to Jan = 100") to make the divergence obvious.
How it works
Connect QuickBooks live, or drop an export — Excel, CSV, JSON, Parquet. From QuickBooks or any other system.
The AI plans the steps and writes the SQL for each one — visible on the canvas, readable, auditable.
A real query engine in your browser runs the SQL on your actual data. Numbers are computed, never generated.
What you get
- Your cost or revenue lines joined month-by-month to the economic series
- Indexed comparisons that make real divergence visible
- An evidence-grade answer to "is it us, or is it everyone?"
- The join and indexing logic as visible SQL
Common questions
Where do I get the economic data?
FRED (fred.stlouisfed.org) offers free CSV downloads of thousands of series — CPI, PPI by industry, wages, rates. Drop the CSV on the canvas next to your books and ask for the comparison.
What comparisons are worth running?
The workhorses: materials costs vs. PPI for your industry, price increases vs. CPI, wage costs vs. the employment cost index, and revenue growth vs. nominal GDP. Each is one prompt once both files are on the canvas.
Can the AI hallucinate my numbers?
No — the AI never generates numbers. It plans the analysis and writes SQL; a real query engine in your browser computes the result from your actual data. Every step is visible as SQL you can read and audit, so a wrong number is a wrong query you can see, not an invented figure you can't.
Does my financial data get uploaded to a server?
No. Your file contents stay in your browser — the computation runs on your machine. The AI only sees your column names and a small sample so it can plan the steps. When you connect QuickBooks live, data flows to your browser session, not into a database we keep.
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Try it on your books
No sign-up to start. Drop a file or connect QuickBooks — your file contents never leave your machine.
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