finance-narrative-integrity-layer

Purpose

Use Claude to maintain a single coherent story behind financial numbers as inputs change, by (1) reconciling narrative claims to a source of truth, (2) reviewing the narrative like a board reader, and (3) drafting recurring variance commentary in an established voice.

When to use

• You ship a board deck where numbers refresh up to the last minute and multiple stakeholders edit in parallel.
• You publish a monthly financial review that must keep consistent voice and conventions month over month.
• You inherit or open a model you don’t fully understand and want an initial driver/structure sanity check.

Inputs

• A board deck or narrative doc (slides or document).
• A single source of truth for the numbers (model output tables, dashboards, or approved extracts).
• Prior-month commentary (for voice/convention consistency).

Instructions

1) Reconcile claims to a single source of truth

1. Provide Claude the narrative document/deck and the latest source-of-truth tables.
2. Use the reconciliation prompt template: templates/reconcile-claims.md
3. Apply fixes in the narrative and rerun whenever numbers move.