Provenance
Founder of Provenance — helping investment banks reduce model review time by 50% and prevent costly errors
What I'm building
Provenance gives investment banks the infrastructure to track, review, and audit every change made to their most critical spreadsheets.
Full version history for every spreadsheet. See exactly what changed between versions — cell by cell.
Track what changed, why it changed, and who changed it. Every edit is logged, timestamped, and attributable.
Designed for investment banking and private equity workflows. Not a generic tool retrofitted for finance.
Why this matters
Final_v17_REAL.xlsx
Every deal team knows this file. No one knows which version is current, what changed, or who changed it. This is how billion-dollar decisions get made.
Hours wasted weekly
Senior bankers — VPs, Principals, MDs — spend hours manually reviewing models line by line. Time that should go to deal strategy goes to version archaeology.
Millions at risk
A single unnoticed formula error can cascade through an entire model. Deals have blown up, valuations have been wrong, and firms have lost millions from spreadsheet mistakes.
Traction
50%
Faster model review
Senior bankers cut review time in half with structured change tracking
Multiple
M&A teams engaged
Working with deal teams across investment banking and private equity
Zero
Unnoticed errors
Every change is surfaced, attributed, and reviewable before sign-off
About
21-year-old founder building at the intersection of financial infrastructure and enterprise software. Not trying to disrupt finance from the outside — building tools that fit how deal teams actually work.
Insights
Every major financial institution runs on spreadsheets. Yet unlike code, databases, or even email — there's no version control, no audit trail, and no accountability layer. A single misplaced formula can silently cascade through a model, affecting valuations, deal terms, and investment decisions worth millions. The industry has accepted this risk for decades. It shouldn't.
AI copilots can generate formulas faster than analysts can review them. That's the problem. Speed without accountability compounds risk. When an AI-generated formula is wrong, no one knows who authored it, why it was added, or when it changed. Before AI makes financial models faster, the industry needs an infrastructure layer that makes them auditable.
Software engineering solved this problem thirty years ago. Every line of code has a history — who wrote it, when, and why. Financial models, which drive decisions orders of magnitude larger, have none of this. The spreadsheet is the last major professional tool without a proper system of record. That gap is where Provenance lives.
It's not just a meme — it's a symptom of a broken workflow. When a VP has to spend two hours figuring out which version of a model is current, that's two hours not spent on deal strategy. Multiply that across every analyst, every deal, every quarter. The operational cost of not having version control in finance is staggering and invisible.
Get in touch
If you run deal teams or review models, I'd love to show you what we're building. 10 minutes is all it takes.