Claude as CFO: how DEKAZIA plans with COMMITLY and MCP

DEKAZIA is an Amazon seller for home & living. Its goods come from China and are paid for four to eight months before they are sold. “Liquidity is our number one topic,” says owner Thilo Nieke. COMMITLY is the company’s planning basis.

Since the MCP server became available, Thilo works with Claude like with a CFO that has direct access to the COMMITLY data. COMMITLY could produce reports before. What is new are the things that only work with AI.

Finding errors between systems

“Why is 22 March suddenly EUR 9,000 worse?” Claude breaks the curve down item by item and finds the cause. The last time, it was an order that still showed the old amount in COMMITLY, while in the ERP it had already grown by 25 percent. A report cannot see something like that, because it does not know the other system.

Updating the plan in one sentence

“Our buyer has added three products to the order. Adjust the instalments and take them out of the planning pot.” Claude works out the exchange rate, deposit, interim and final payment as well as the right debit date of the credit card, changes the items directly in COMMITLY and then checks that nothing is counted twice.

Assigning the credit card statement

Claude assigns the individual items of the Amex statement, 32 of them last time, to the right categories and sets the planned values to actual. Only splitting the statement entry itself is something Thilo still does in the web interface.

Approving orders with a cash flow traffic light

Anyone at DEKAZIA who creates an order in the ERP sees straight away whether the cash flow can carry it: green, orange or red. The traffic light is based on the plan in COMMITLY.

What-if in plain language

“The new products are selling really well. Will the stock last until the next delivery, and what does air freight do to the account?” Instead of building scenarios himself, Thilo gets an answer with figures and a recommendation.

The full annual plan in one day

For Thilo, this is the biggest difference. He roughly sets out how many launches and new products are planned for next year and how the existing products will grow. From that, Claude calculates revenue, orders, budgets and payment dates and creates everything directly as a plan or scenario in COMMITLY. That is how the complete 2027 plan was built in one day. In the past it would have taken one to two weeks. In the tool itself Thilo hardly has to maintain anything by hand any more.

The bottom line

“I used to look at the forecast. Today I ask questions and get answers.”

To do this, the AI uses the full COMMITLY planning system: plans and scenarios, plan vs. actual, open items from accounting and the actual figures from the bank account. How to connect Claude, ChatGPT or another model is explained on the MCP server page.