Ten-minute demo script
Audience: whoever is giving the demo. Purpose: ten minutes, nine states, each a deep link that opens exactly the state described, with what to say and what not to claim. Every figure is illustrative and from the synthetic ledger (seed 20260925, clock 21 Aug 2026); say so once at the start and let the chip on every screen say it after that. Links are portfolio paths that redirect to the Wiki; the same paths work on the Wiki directly under /finance.
| Min | Open | Say | Don't say |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | /demo/finance-desk | "This is a Finance section inside the Wiki, on a synthetic ledger. Seven tiles; every one has a where? button." Press where? on the patent tile: "$61,900.00 — the same number the Patents surface shows, carried to the cent, by test. Nothing on this page is stored." | Anything about our real numbers |
| 1:00 | same, the ask box | Type What does Priya earn? — "Refused, no rows: payroll exists here only as department × month, groups under three suppressed." Then How much of Award R-01 is used? — "Answered from cited rows; each chip opens them." | That the ask box is a model — it is deterministic retrieval |
| 2:00 | /demo/finance-desk/bills?id=INV-0236 | "One invoice, three findings: an unverified bank change the day before, a copy of the genuine April packaging invoice, a round $61,000 with rush and no PO. Each finding is attributions that sum to one, evidence chips that open rows, an action and the role that may take it." Press Release payment: "Refused — the bank change is unverified, and it says which call to make." | "The watcher caught fraud" — nothing has been caught; the row was planted |
| 3:30 | /demo/finance-desk/bills?as=dana&id=INV-0254&try=approve | "As Dana, the Founders-office associate, on an invoice she keyed, with Approve already pressed: refused under segregation of duties, with who to ask instead. Every decision is listed in the audit trail's format." | That a finance lead can override in place — she cannot |
| 4:30 | /demo/finance-desk/tie-out?tab=bank&filter=suggested | "Three passes — exact reference, amount inside five days, counterparty — with a confidence each; 356 of 371 auto, 3 suggested for a person, 11 exceptions with the reason. A wrong-amount match is never proposed; the count is on the screen and in a test." Accept one: "Logged as Yuki." | An auto-match rate for our bank — this is the seed's |
| 5:30 | /demo/finance-desk/pots?fund=award-r01&verdict=unallowable | "The award as the startup analog of a restricted fund. Every line judged by the award's own rules on every read; these two are unallowable — a bar charge, a pre-award invoice — and Propose reclass needs the award PM and the finance lead. Nothing moves money." | That the sponsor's rules are fully modelled — five are |
| 6:30 | /demo/finance-desk/month-end?asof=2026-08-05 | "July's close as of 5 August: ten tasks, each done only when the rows say so; readiness is the weighted sum shown. Change the date and every check re-runs." | That the system closes anything — a person does |
| 7:30 | /demo/finance-desk/watchers | "Five watchers, one contract: findings and drafts, never actions; every run asserts the ledger hash unchanged. The Invoice Watcher's eval per rule with n: 47 of 47 planted, 0 of 179 hard negatives. Acceptance is n = 0 — no person has decided a finding yet, and we do not estimate it. L2 is configured and off." Point at the first-run number in the caption: "The first run read 0.34 precision; most of it was the labels being wrong. That is the number to remember." | Precision 1.00 as a result — it is a result on the seed the rules were tuned against |
| 9:00 | /demo/finance-desk/audit | Press Verify chain: "1,556 events, every hash links to the one before, including the five watcher runs." Press Simulate a tamper: "The chain breaks from that number on. The external accountant persona can open all of this and change none of it." | — |
| 9:45 | back to the case study | "Built: the seed, nine screens, five watchers, fifty tests. Planned: a read-only pilot on real exports, a labelled month, acceptance measured. The business case is modelled and says so." | Adoption, time saved, or money saved — none is measured |
If asked
- "What happens with real data?" — The same adapters, pointed at read-only exports; every export ties out to its source total by test before a screen shows it, as Patents and Ops do today.
- "Why rules and not a model?" — A rule's attribution is a weight a finance lead can disagree with; the first month of a pilot is her learning which rules to trust. A model comes later, at the edge, held to the same contract: cite rows or be dropped.
- "What would make you stop?" — Case study §09: any watcher action, any finding without evidence, any write to Ops or Patents, any derivable individual pay, precision under 0.90 on a rule in a real month, the finance lead absent two weeks.
Reset
Every state above is a link; nothing persists between visits. Session decisions (approvals, accepted matches, reclass proposals) live in the tab and are gone on reload.