🧠 Finance Just Had Its Main Character Moment (And AI Did The Heavy Lifting)

Anthropic launched 10 ready-to-run agent templates built built specifically for financial services — and Goldman Sachs, Citi, Visa, and AIG are already running them.

The templates cover the most painful repetitive work in finance: pitchbooks, KYC screening, ledger reconciliation, credit memos, month-end close. Each one bundles domain logic, governed data connectors, and specialized subagents for tasks like comparables selection.

They run inside Claude Cowork, Claude Code, or as managed agent cookbooks — meaning a firm can go from zero to live in days, not months. Claude also now works natively across Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, with context carrying automatically between apps. But we think the real story isn't the templates. It's that the $200K analyst grunt work that junior bankers spend their first two years doing just became automatable by a mid-size firm with no ML team.

These are still firm-in-the-loop workflows — Claude doesn't approve the credit memo, a human does. But the hours-to-minutes compression on the prep work is where the value lands. If you work in or sell to financial services, this page is worth twenty minutes of your time this week.

Google Labs' free marketing tool Pomelli added Product Catalogs.

Previously, Pomelli generated campaigns from your general brand vibe. Now you add your actual products and services directly inside the tool, with editable descriptions, and every campaign and product photoshoot it generates is grounded in your real inventory. That's the gap it was missing.

You don't need a marketing team, a budget, or a brief. You need a product list and ten minutes.

It's free, available globally, and still a Google Labs experiment — so features will keep changing. But for solopreneurs and small e-commerce brands, this is the most capable free marketing tool available right now.

Perplexity launched Computer for Professional Finance, going directly after the analyst workflow. Finance teams can plug in their existing licensed data from Morningstar, PitchBook, Daloopa, and Carbon Arc, and Perplexity's Computer will work with that data rather than replacing it. Every output is source-traceable, so you can click any number and land directly on the underlying SEC filing, earnings transcript, or licensed dataset it came from.

35 dedicated finance workflows ship with it, covering the work analysts repeat every single week: company tearsheets (enter a company name, get a full brief with key metrics, recent news, and sources), annotated stock charts (enter a ticker, get a chart marked up with earnings, product launches, and market events), and sourcing screens (enter target criteria, get a filtered company list with reasoning for each match).

1.🎨 Open Design

Claude Code is a powerful coding agent, but if you've used it to build interfaces, you've probably noticed the results tend to look like a 2018 SaaS template. Open Design is a newly open-sourced design system built specifically to fix that. Think of it as 19 composable design skills plus 71 brand-grade design systems that plug directly into Claude Code (and other coding agents like Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI).

Ask it to build a landing page or pitch deck and it applies magazine-grade visual direction before a single line of CSS gets written. Local-first, runs with your own API key, and free.

2. 💼 Career Ops

An open-source, AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code by this creator, a Head of Applied AI who used it to land his current role after evaluating 740+ job offers. The system uses 14 skill modes to read job descriptions, score them across 10 dimensions, and generate tailored, ATS-optimized resumes per listing.

It uses Claude Code with Playwright to actually navigate career pages, evaluate fit by reasoning about your CV rather than keyword-matching, and adapt your resume per application. Your data stays on your machine.

OpusClip is a popular paid tool that takes long videos and auto-cuts them into short, vertical clips for social media. This creator just open-sourced a Claude Code skill called Clipify that does essentially the same thing, free, from your terminal.

Here's how to set it up: