{"slug": "show-hn-ekselio-loveable-for-finance-workflows-local-first", "title": "Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)", "summary": "KD, a 20-year finance and M&A veteran who relearned coding during Covid, launched Ekselio, a local-first \"Lovable for finance workflows\" tool, on Hacker News' Show HN. Ekselio orchestrates workflows with an LLM based on file schema but executes them in the browser, exposing a canvas, per-node previews, and SQL code, and lets users save a workflow and re-run it monthly with no LLM tokens. The tool exports Excel data packs with M code for audit reproducibility and connects to QuickBooks Online, FRED's roughly 800,000 macroeconomic series, and stock data; KD is using his own API key and has rate-limited access.", "body_md": "Hi everyone, I am KD - Back in my college days, I dabbled with coding, learned the basics, HTML, CSS etc. but somehow I ended up in Finance which consumed the next 20 years. Then, during covid I picked up coding again, learned react, typescript, etc - even built a rudimentary site - and then came the chatgpt moment, followed by Claude etc.\n\nSo, as a side project, considering that I had spent 20 years in finance and M&A I started building Ekselio, loveable for finance workflows.\n\nDifferently from other vibe coding tools, this is local first - meaning the workflows are orchestrated by the LLM based on the file schema but then the execution happens in the browser - the cool thing is that you can see the canvas, the previews of each node, and the code base (SQl) - see the Canvas tab.\n\nThat said I did include a home tab, which is more of a visual, mainly because people think it's easier to relate to how folks operate, although I know finance and accounting folks usually like the workflow and full transparency - the other thing is that once you create a workflow you can save it and then next month,you can just click Run and it runs it again with no LLM tokes involved - so the infrastructure is minimal.\n\nEverything can be exported in an excel data pack with M code in case someone would want to reproduce - think Audit ready. And, I also connected to quickbooks on line so someone can directly pull in and manipulate their financials live - I also connected to Fred which carries literally 800k series in terms of macro economic data - i.e. oil prices, inflation, CPI etc and finally to stocks.\n\nI am hoping people find holes in the architecture or any ideas to make this flow a little bit better. It is in progress so if you run into bugs let me know. Considering that I am using my own API key, I have put a wall in case people overuse it but DM me if you would like to continue using, I can turn off the wall for you - hoping to keep that to a small number of users if I can and will do my best. Thank you again, appreciate you taking the time.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849986](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849986)\n\nPoints: 4\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ekselio-loveable-for-finance-workflows-local-first", "canonical_source": "https://www.gptbeyond.com/try?home=1", "published_at": "2026-09-25 21:09:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-26 00:59:02.441288+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Ekselio", "KD", "Hacker News", "QuickBooks Online", "FRED"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ekselio-loveable-for-finance-workflows-local-first", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ekselio-loveable-for-finance-workflows-local-first.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ekselio-loveable-for-finance-workflows-local-first.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-ekselio-loveable-for-finance-workflows-local-first.jsonld"}}