Saki Arimoto

finance professional AI systems builder

I build AI tooling for finance work that has to be right — extraction pipelines, verification layers, and the internal platform ~30 people use daily at a Dublin accounting practice. Background in global-mobility tax (PwC Japan / Vialto Partners). Trilingual: English, Japanese, Filipino.

Built & running in production

Tools built solo inside an accounting practice — capability and results shown; client data stays where it belongs.

Bank-statement OCR pipeline

ProblemForensic casework starts with scanned bank statements — historically transcribed by hand, line by line.

BuiltAn AI extraction pipeline that converts scanned statement PDFs into structured, analysis-ready transaction data.

Result3,018 transactions across 106 scanned pages in ~30 minutes for under €0.50 — roughly 70× faster than the manual process — validated by a partner on a live forensic case.

Claude visionforensic casework~70× faster

Bank Analyzer — forensic transaction categorisation

ProblemDivorce and litigation casework requires categorising thousands of transactions consistently and defensibly.

BuiltA categorisation engine — 746 keywords across 21 categories — producing structured workbooks for forensic review.

ResultIn use on live matrimonial and litigation cases; consistent categorisation at a scale manual review can't match.

746 keywords21 categorieslitigation casework

Irish VAT-return automation

ProblemVAT return preparation is repetitive, deadline-driven, and error-intolerant.

BuiltAn automation pipeline with confidence scoring and duplicate detection, so human review concentrates on the entries that need judgment.

ResultIn production across the firm's client base.

confidence scoringduplicate detectionin production

AI governance & firm-wide rollout

ProblemA 30-person practice adopting AI with client data in play — no policy, no visibility, no way to judge what's worth paying for.

BuiltThe firm's AI operating framework: usage policy, per-tool GDPR/PII assessment, a usage-tracking dashboard, and an ROI framework for the toolstack.

ResultFirm-wide rollout with guardrails people actually follow — built by the person shipping the tools.

usage policyGDPR / PIIROI framework

dddesk — internal practice platform

ProblemClient records, deadlines, and work status lived in spreadsheets and memory.

BuiltA self-hosted practice platform with a 12-column sortable dashboard, activity logging, and bulk operations. Designed, built, deployed, and maintained solo.

Result329 client records, ~30 daily users, running in production since March 2026.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgres329 clients~30 daily users

Also

Open Brain — my own MCP memory server: semantic search over captured thoughts, scheduled consolidation, browse UI, voice capture. Self-hosted; used daily as external memory across AI sessions.

Voice-note transcriber — local Whisper + Claude pipeline: folder watcher, transcription, action extraction, desktop notifications.

Newsletter automation — Claude-drafted, partner-approved by email, auto-published to Teams and broadcast to 28 staff (Resend + Power Automate).

Earlier public builds — Forensic Transaction Analyzer · Invoice Processing Agent · Tax Q&A Bot — code on GitHub

About

Global-mobility tax at PwC Japan / Vialto Partners, then Dublin, then the firm's AI and automation builder. My real skill is AI-assisted build and delivery — shipping a working tool fast, then hardening it with the people who use it. I care most about the trust layer: evaluation, verification, and knowing exactly where a system fails.

BBA Business Economics, Tokyo International University. English · 日本語 · Filipino.