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Read full piece →Why Reconciliation Workflows Break in Growing Businesses
Reconciliation processes designed for smaller transaction volumes collapse predictably. Here's the failure pattern, and what modern operational infrastructure does about it.
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- ERP Systems8 min read
The Hidden Cost of Fragmented ERP Workflows
Most ERP cost analyses focus on licenses. The real cost shows up somewhere else — in the time spent moving data between modules that never quite connect.
Aman Gulati · May 5, 2026
- AI Operations6 min read
AI in Accounting: The Narrow Problems Where It Actually Works
Cutting through the hype on AI in finance to identify the specific problems where modern models genuinely move the needle — and the much larger set where they don't.
Aman Gulati · Apr 20, 2026
- Finance Infrastructure7 min read
The Hidden Operational Cost of Spreadsheets
Why the real cost of spreadsheet-driven finance shows up in places most teams never measure — and how it compounds as the business grows.
Aman Gulati · Apr 10, 2026
- Warehouse Systems8 min read
Closing the Warehouse-to-Finance Data Gap
Inventory and finance systems rarely talk to each other in real time. The cost of that gap — and what to do about it — for growing operational businesses.
Aman Gulati · Mar 15, 2026
Operational systems deserve serious analysis.
We write about operational systems because modern businesses increasingly depend on fragmented software workflows that are difficult to scale and operate effectively — and most of that complexity is invisible until it breaks.
Our goal is to study, in public, the infrastructure that reduces operational friction across finance, ERP, warehousing, and business systems. The Operating Journal is where that thinking lives.
— Aman Gulati, Founder
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