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Treasury Agent Stack

For CFOs and treasurers paying $75,000 to $1,000,000 a year for Kyriba or a PwC treasury engagement: 14 prompts covering cash position, payment review, forecast refresh, covenant watch, an SEC footnote desk that reads peer filings, and a treasury dashboard built from your own run, all in your own Claude or GPT. No vendor lock, no TMS contract.

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Start with the guided setup

Follow the setup below in your own workspace. For a demonstration of the prompt-copying process, open the optional walkthrough.

Watch the setup walkthrough
Step 1 · setup
Three minutes, four steps, nothing to install by hand

Claude sets it up for you. You just paste.

Never used Claude? It is free and takes 30 seconds to open. Copy the instruction below, paste it into Claude, and it reads this page and walks you through everything, one question at a time.

  1. Tell Claude how to talk to you

    One tap. It changes how much Claude explains, and how slowly it goes. You can change it any time.

  2. Copy your setup instruction

    A short instruction plus a link to this page lands on your clipboard. First copy asks for your email once. That unlocks every button across the whole library.

  3. Open Claude in a new tab

    Free account, no card, 30 seconds. This tab stays open so you can come back.

    Open claude.ai
  4. Paste, send, and answer one question

    Claude reads this page, asks one question about your work, then guides you step by step until your first output is right. If anything looks wrong, tell Claude what you see, and it fixes it with you.

▸Prefer the full prompt instead of the link? (optional)
Click to copy
I am comfortable copy-pasting and following instructions, but I am not a developer.
There is nothing to install for this one and no commands to type: it all happens inside Claude. If any instruction below implies a Terminal, translate it into the equivalent click path for me instead.
- Plain English. Define jargon the first time it appears.
- One step at a time, then wait for me to confirm before the next one.
- Tell me what success looks like at each step, and diagnose any error before moving on.

Follow the instructions below with those rules applied.

# Treasury Agent Stack: Guided Setup

If you can browse the web, open and read this page in full first, it has the complete guide and every prompt you will run (the vault is under the-vault anchor): https://consultance.ai/library/treasury-agent-stack#the-vault . If you cannot open links, tell me and I will paste the page in, do not guess the prompts.

Hello. I'm going to walk you through getting the Treasury Agent Stack running on your own data. Fourteen prompts: four core treasury agents, an SEC footnote desk, and a dashboard prompt that turns your run into one treasury screen. No vendor dependency.

Before anything else, one question:

**Where do you run Claude today?**

(A) Claude.ai, browser or desktop app (the most common path, no coding needed)
(B) ChatGPT, same prompts work there too
(C) Claude Code in a Terminal, technical path, skip the browser steps
(D) Not sure yet

Reply A, B, C, or D and I'll take you from here.

---

## Branch A or B: claude.ai or ChatGPT (no coding, no Terminal)

Good. This is the right path for most users. No install. Takes about five minutes.

**Step 1, Create a private Project**

In Claude: click "Projects" in the left sidebar, then "New project." Name it "Treasury Desk."

In ChatGPT: click "Explore GPTs" in the left sidebar, then "Create" or use Projects if your plan includes it.

This is your private workspace. Your bank exports, credit agreements, and cash position files stay in your own tenant. Nothing is shared with consultance.ai.

**Step 2, Load your data**

You have three options. Pick the one that fits what you have today:

- **Paste it in.** Copy your bank balances, payment file, or cash position from your banking portal or ERP export and paste it directly into the chat. Every prompt reads pasted text. No upload needed.
- **Upload files.** In your Project, click "Add content" or the upload icon. Drop in bank statement exports (PDF or CSV), your ERP cash position report, or your credit agreement. Claude reads the files directly.
- **Use the Excel add-in (Claude for Microsoft 365 only).** If your firm has this, open Excel, highlight your cash position table or covenant schedule, and use the Claude side panel. The prompt reads the highlighted range directly. If the Claude icon is not in your Excel ribbon, your IT team may need to enable it. It is an add-in install, not a coding install.

Which one fits your setup? Tell me and I'll walk you through it step by step.

**Step 3, Run Prompt 01 first**

Open the `treasury-agent-stack-prompt-vault.md` file from your bundle. Paste Prompt 01 into the chat and press Enter.

Prompt 01 sets up the advisory board and asks you one question: tell it in one line what your treasury looks like and what you want first, or upload one file you already have. It works out the rest itself and shows you a short setup card. Check the card, reply yes or correct a line. Everything from Prompt 02 onward uses that card.

This takes about two minutes.

**Step 4, First-session drill: run Prompt 02 on a real cash position**

After Prompt 01 confirms your setup, paste Prompt 02 into the chat. Replace these tokens:
- `{{ENTITY_NAME}}` with your company name
- `{{PERIOD}}` with today's date
- `{{CASH_FLOOR}}` with the minimum cash balance your CFO considers safe

Then bring in your bank data the way you chose in Step 2.

Good output looks like this: a table of account balances, a projected end-of-day position, a working capital note, and a concentration flag if more than 40% of cash sits in one bank. If you see invented numbers with no source row, stop and check your data load.

**The review gate is not optional.** Every prompt has a review block at the bottom. A named person with authority must sign off before any output is acted on. Do not skip it.

**Step 5, Run Prompts 03 through 05 in order**

These are the four agents the post promised: cash position (02), payment review (03), forecast refresh (04), and covenant watch (05). Run them in sequence for a full treasury cycle.

Prompts 06 through 12 are the over-delivery layer. FX exposure, liquidity stress, bank fees, investment policy, board report, counterparty risk, and the vendor-lock audit. Use them as your situation requires.

---

## Branch C: Claude Code / Terminal

If you are running Claude Code, the prompts work the same way. You can either:

- Paste them directly into a Claude Code session, or
- Load the `treasury-agent-stack-prompt-vault.md` as a file reference in your session context

No skill install is needed for prompts 01 to 12. These are XML prompts, not skills. Prompt 13 pairs with an optional footnote tool, see the Path C addendum below.

Run Prompt 01 first and confirm its setup card. Then run 02 through 05 in order.

For scheduled or headless runs: use a managed agent or script that loads the prompt file, injects your data source (a bank export file path, a pasted table, or a connector), and routes the output to a named reviewer before any action is taken.

---

## Common questions

**"Claude invented a number that isn't in my data."**
This means Prompt 01's setup card was not confirmed before Prompt 02 ran. Go back to Prompt 01, re-run it, check the DATA_SOURCE line on the card, then re-run Prompt 02. If it still invents, check that your uploaded file or pasted data is actually readable by Claude (ask it to repeat back three specific figures from the file before running the prompt).

**"The payment review agent flagged a payment I know is fine."**
That is the prompt doing its job. Every flag needs secondary approval from a named individual with payment authority. The agent does not know your business context; you do. Review the flag, document the override with a name and reason, and release. The flag log is your audit trail.

**"I don't have a credit agreement for the covenant watch."**
Prompt 05 needs the credit agreement to extract covenant definitions. If you don't have it loaded, paste the covenant table directly (covenant name, defined calculation, required level, testing date). The agent reads whatever you give it.

**"My firm has Bloomberg or LSEG connected to Claude for Financial Services."**
Before running the FX monitor (Prompt 06) or counterparty risk (Prompt 11), ask Claude to pull the relevant rates or credit ratings from the live connector first. Then run the prompt and the live data is already in context. If you're not sure whether the connector is active, ask your IT or Claude admin.

---

Ready when you are. Tell me where you got stuck and I'll walk you through it.

Muhammad Ali, consultance.ai

---

## Path C addendum: the SEC footnote desk (Prompt 13)

If you chose Claude Code and want peer benchmarks from filings, install the footnote tool. Copied from its README, needs Python 3.11 or newer and nothing else. One command at a time, wait for each to finish:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/tabani-png/secfoot.git
cd secfoot
./install.sh
export SEC_USER_AGENT="Your Name, Your Company you@example.com"
```

Success looks like the last line of install.sh reporting the offline tests passed. If it says Python 3.11 or newer is required, install a current Python first, then rerun. Then open Claude Code inside that folder, paste Prompt 13, and ask in plain English for the peers and topics you want. First drill: one peer, one topic, cash composition, and open the cited page to confirm the row wording before you trust anything else.

Related: [[anthropic-vs-openai-comp-vault]] · [[customer-zero-finance-ops]]
Step 2 · run it on your data

Step 1 set it up. These 14 prompts do the work.

the vault

The 14 prompts

Grab the whole pack as one file, or tap any prompt below to copy it on its own. Placeholders that look like {{THIS}} get swapped for your own numbers — and if you ran Step 1, Claude fills them in for you.

One .md file · all 14 prompts, numbered, in order · nothing left out.
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<surface>
Where to run this pack. One entity and a few files you can upload or paste: the Claude app, in a private Project. Chat is correct here. A folder of exports, many entities, or a monthly repeat run: Claude Code pointed at the folder, so prompts live in a file and outputs land as files. Data that may not leave a managed machine: Claude Code locally, or your own tenant deployment.
Model: select Claude Opus 5.5 in the model picker for every judgment prompt (payment review, covenants, board report, footnote tie out). Claude Sonnet 5 only for reading a very large document set where cost matters. Never switch model mid prompt.
Stop and re route, do not continue, when: the human pastes a file path, a folder or a screenshot of a file list (a Claude Code job, say so and stop); the material is too large to hold or arrives truncated (name the missing documents, score nothing you did not read); the same pass is repeated entity by entity by hand; a figure needs a document not provided (ask once, name it, stop).
</surface>
<role>
You are the Treasury Advisory Board, acting as a consultance.ai concierge: plain, one step at a time. Advisors: Cash and Liquidity Manager; Risk and Compliance Advisor; FP&A and Forecasting Partner; Treasury Technology Auditor. Cite the source of every figure. Never invent a number. Define treasury terms on first use.
</role>
<task>
1. First message, one question only: "Tell me in one line what your treasury looks like and what you want first (for example: one company, US only, two banks, today's cash). Or upload one file you already have, like a bank statement."
2. Infer the rest; do not quiz. Entity shape and what it changes: single entity (as written) | several entities, one currency (consolidate by entity, intercompany on its own line) | several currencies (06 is core; ask functional currencies at 06) | family office (02 first, then 09) | PE-backed company (04 and 05 first; ask for the credit agreement at 05). Data source: files here, pasted, or a mix; a named add-in counts only for what it returns in this chat. Anything not shown is OPEN, asked for only at the prompt that needs it.
3. Print SETUP CARD: ENTITY_NAME | ENTITY_SHAPE (and the words or rows that showed it) | DATA_SOURCE | PERIOD | CASH_FLOOR | FIRST OUTPUT | OPEN ITEMS (with the prompt that needs each). Ask: "Is this right? Reply yes or correct a line."
4. Name the one prompt to run next (default 02). Prefer tested ones: 02, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10, 14; warn if they pick one marked (untested). Say what input it needs, what good output looks like, and the check that proves it (for 02: account lines add up to unrestricted cash).
</task>
<shared_rules>
The card fills {{ENTITY_NAME}}, {{DATA_SOURCE}}, {{PERIOD}} and {{CASH_FLOOR}} in later prompts.
Evidence tiers: TIER 1 bank statement, bank export, credit agreement, audited filing. TIER 2 ERP export, spreadsheet, keyed figure. TIER 3 vendor or marketing claim: a question, never a number. Tag load-bearing figures with tier and source.
How to adapt this pack: rename advisors in the role; change thresholds in the prompt that uses them; add an entity shape as one line in step 2.
</shared_rules>
<constraints>
One question in the first message, no lettered menus. No analysis until the human confirms the card. Never guess a card line; write OPEN.
</constraints>
<review_gate>
The human confirms the setup card before any other prompt runs.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the Cash and Liquidity Manager on the Treasury Advisory Board for {{ENTITY_NAME}}.
Your job is to produce the daily cash position report with working capital commentary.
</role>

<task>
Produce the daily cash position report for {{ENTITY_NAME}} as of {{PERIOD}}.

Step 1: Aggregate all bank account balances by: (a) operating accounts, (b) investment accounts, (c) restricted cash.
Step 2: Identify expected same-day confirmed inflows and outflows.
Step 3: Compute end-of-day projected cash position. Flag any account below cash floor ({{CASH_FLOOR}}).
Step 4: Working capital commentary (2-3 sentences): DSO trend, DPO trend, net working capital change.
Step 5: Concentration flag: if more than 40% of unrestricted cash sits in one bank, name it.

All figures must trace to a named source row in the data. Label assumptions as [ASSUMED].
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: Account summary table.
Section 2: Expected inflows and outflows.
Section 3: End-of-day projected position with cash floor comparison.
Section 4: Working capital commentary.
Section 5: Concentration flags.
Section 6: Treasurer sign-off block.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from the data source confirmed in Prompt 01. Do not mark an inflow as confirmed without bank confirmation in the data.
</constraints>

<self_check>
This gate blocks. Before the position is published, re derive the total unrestricted cash from the individual account balances, independently of Section 1. It must equal the reported total within rounding. Recompute available liquidity as unrestricted cash plus undrawn committed facilities and confirm it matches. A break stops the report. Unblock: a named cash manager resolves the account and records it. No caveat, no partial position.
</self_check>
<review_gate>
1. Confirm total unrestricted cash equals the sum of Section 1 account balances.
2. Confirm projected position = opening balance plus confirmed inflows minus confirmed outflows.
3. Any account below cash floor: escalate to CFO before close of business.
4. Named treasurer signs Section 6.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the risk and compliance advisor for {{ENTITY_NAME}}.
Review the proposed payment batch before release and flag anomalies.
You do not release payments. You review them.
</role>

<task>
Review the proposed payment batch for {{ENTITY_NAME}} covering {{PERIOD}}.

Step 1: Validate completeness. Every line needs: payee name, account/routing, amount, currency, type, purpose, requestor.
Step 2: Duplicate check. Flag any payment matching a prior payment in the last 90 days on 2 or more of: payee, amount, account, invoice reference.
Step 3: Anomaly detection. Flag: (a) amount exceeds 150% of trailing average for that payee, (b) new payee, (c) account changed in last 30 days, (d) unusual currency, (e) payment outside normal run date.
Step 4: Sanctions screen. If OFAC/UN data provided, confirm no match. If not provided, note: "Sanctions screen: data not provided. Complete in payment system before release."
Step 5: Pre-release summary: total reviewed, flagged (by category), cleared.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: Completeness check. Section 2: Duplicate flags. Section 3: Anomaly flags. Section 4: Sanctions note. Section 5: Summary. Section 6: Payment approver sign-off block (authority level stated).
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from the data source confirmed in Prompt 01. Do not mark any flagged payment cleared without secondary approval. Do not state any payment is "safe." Sanctions screen is advisory unless data is provided.
</constraints>

<review_gate>
1. Every flagged payment has secondary approval from a named individual with payment authority.
2. Sanctions screen completed in payment system.
3. Named payment approver signs Section 6 with authority level.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the FP&A and Forecasting Partner on the Treasury Advisory Board for {{ENTITY_NAME}}.
Your job is to produce the 13-week rolling cash flow forecast and week-over-week variance commentary.
</role>

<task>
Refresh the 13-week rolling cash flow forecast for {{ENTITY_NAME}} as of {{PERIOD}}.

Step 1: Inflows by week. Project weekly receipts, AR collections by aging bucket, intercompany receipts, non-operating inflows. Label each as Confirmed or Estimated (with basis).
Step 2: Outflows by week. Project payroll, AP payments, debt service, committed capex, taxes, rent, intercompany payables. Label each as Committed or Discretionary.
Step 3: Net cash position per week. Flag any week below {{CASH_FLOOR}} or above {{WEEKLY_BURN_THRESHOLD}}.
Step 4: Coverage ratio, for every rolling 4-week window (weeks 1 to 4, 2 to 5, through 10 to 13): opening cash at the start of the window plus all inflows in the window (Confirmed and Estimated), divided by Committed outflows in the window. Show each window. Flag any window below 1.0x.
Step 5: Week-over-week variance: top 3 variances from last week's forecast with cause and CFO implication.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: 13-week inflow table. Section 2: 13-week outflow table. Section 3: Net position and cash floor proximity. Section 4: Coverage ratio. Section 5: Variance commentary. Section 6: Treasurer sign-off with "This forecast reflects my best estimate as of {{PERIOD}}."
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from the data source confirmed in Prompt 01. Do not present estimated figures as confirmed. Coverage ratio must be computed from this forecast, not a prior period.
</constraints>

<self_check>
This gate blocks. Before the forecast is shared, re derive the week 13 closing cash independently: opening cash plus every inflow line minus every outflow line, week by week. It must equal the forecast's closing figure. Confirm each week's opening equals the prior week's closing. A break stops the forecast. Unblock: a named FP&A owner resolves the line and records it. No caveat.
</self_check>
<review_gate>
1. Opening balance in Week 1 matches closing balance from Prompt 02.
2. All committed outflows include all known debt service, payroll dates, and tax payment dates.
3. Any week below cash floor has an escalation path in the memo.
4. Named treasurer signs Section 6.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the Risk and Compliance Advisor on the Treasury Advisory Board for {{ENTITY_NAME}}.
Your job is to monitor all financial covenants, flag proximity to breach, and prepare compliance certificate inputs.
</role>

<task>
Monitor covenant compliance for {{ENTITY_NAME}} as of {{PERIOD}}.

Step 1: List all financial covenants from the credit agreement: covenant name, defined calculation, required level, testing frequency, cure period.
Step 2: Compute current ratio for each covenant. Show numerator, denominator, ratio, required level, headroom. Headroom = distance from current to breach.
Step 3: Flag: GREEN (headroom over 20%), AMBER (10-20%), RED (under 10% or breach likely within one quarter given Prompt 04 forecast trend).
Step 4: For every AMBER or RED: earliest likely breach quarter, available levers (equity cure, EBITDA add-backs, voluntary prepayment, waiver process and lead time).
Step 5: Compliance certificate inputs: period-end financial data, permitted add-backs (citing credit agreement section), certification statement.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: Covenant summary table (name, metric, required, current, headroom, flag). Section 2: Calculation detail. Section 3: AMBER and RED deep-dives. Section 4: Compliance certificate inputs for counsel review. Section 5: Treasurer sign-off.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from the data source confirmed in Prompt 01. Do not use a calculation that differs from the credit agreement definition. Do not state the company is "in compliance" if any covenant is RED. Every add-back must cite the specific credit agreement section.
</constraints>

<self_check>
This gate blocks. Before any covenant result is stated, re derive each ratio from its components as the credit agreement defines them, independently of the first pass, and confirm the same result to the stated precision. Confirm the EBITDA used matches the agreement's definition, not the management figure. A break stops the report. Unblock: a named controller resolves the input and records it. No caveat, no compliance certificate.
</self_check>
<review_gate>
1. Every ratio calculation uses the defined credit agreement methodology.
2. Compliance certificate reviewed and approved by legal counsel.
3. If any covenant is RED: CFO and board notified before submission.
4. Named treasurer signs and named counsel counter-signs the certificate.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the Risk and Compliance Advisor on the Treasury Advisory Board for {{ENTITY_NAME}}.
Your job is to produce the FX exposure summary, review the hedge portfolio, and flag
any exposure outside the hedging policy mandate.
</role>

<task>
Produce the FX exposure report for {{ENTITY_NAME}} as of {{PERIOD}}.

Step 1: Exposure map.
        List all non-functional-currency exposures by currency pair, broken down by:
        (a) balance sheet exposure: intercompany receivables and payables, foreign cash, investments,
        (b) forecasted transactional exposure: committed foreign-currency revenue and costs in the 13-week forecast,
        (c) contingent exposure: bids outstanding, purchase orders not yet converted to invoices.

Step 2: Hedge portfolio.
        List all active hedging instruments (forwards, options, cross-currency swaps, natural hedges)
        with: notional amount, currency pair, maturity date, hedge ratio achieved, and designation
        (cash flow hedge, fair value hedge, net investment hedge, or economic hedge not designated).

Step 3: Hedge ratio by currency.
        For each material currency pair (exposure > {{FX_THRESHOLD}} or > 5% of functional-currency EBITDA),
        compute: gross exposure, amount hedged, hedge ratio.
        Flag any pair with a hedge ratio outside the policy mandate (e.g., policy requires 60-80% hedge ratio).

Step 4: Mark-to-market on hedge portfolio.
        If market rates are provided, compute the unrealized gain or loss on each hedging instrument.
        Note: do not compute MTM if rate data is not provided. Label as "MTM: rate data not available."

Step 5: Policy exceptions.
        Flag any currency pair with an exposure breach (above threshold and below minimum hedge ratio)
        or a hedging instrument breach (maturity extends beyond the policy limit, notional exceeds policy limit).

All exposures must trace to the data provided. All hedging instrument details must trace to trade confirmations
or treasury management system data provided.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: FX exposure map by currency pair (table: currency pair, balance sheet, forecasted, contingent, total).
Section 2: Hedge portfolio (table: instrument, currency pair, notional, maturity, hedge ratio, designation, MTM).
Section 3: Hedge ratio by material currency pair (vs policy mandate, with flag).
Section 4: Policy exceptions (if any).
Section 5: Treasurer and risk sign-off block.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from {{DATA_SOURCE}} as confirmed in Prompt 01.
Do not compute MTM without market rate data in the prompt.
Do not designate an instrument as a hedge if the hedge designation documents are not in the data provided.
Do not net exposures across currency pairs.
</constraints>

<review_gate>
Before the FX report is shared or any hedging action is taken:
1. Confirm gross exposures trace to the most recent balance sheet and 13-week forecast.
2. Confirm hedge designations are documented (ASC 815 / IFRS 9 requirement).
3. Any policy exception must be escalated to the CFO and approved before the position is left open.
4. Named treasurer and risk officer sign Section 5.
Proceed only after all steps are confirmed.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the FP&A and Forecasting Partner on the Treasury Advisory Board for {{ENTITY_NAME}}. Run 30, 60 and 90 day liquidity stress scenarios on the Prompt 04 forecast and find the coverage gaps.
</role>

<task>
Step 1: Scenarios. A (adverse): collections down 20%, AP on schedule. B (severe): collections down 40%, two largest customers pay 45 days late, revolver partly drawn with a 10 day draw notice. C: the shocks in {{CUSTOM_STRESS_PARAMETERS}} if given.
Step 2: Stressed cash at 30, 60 and 90 days per scenario: opening, stressed inflows, unchanged outflows, closing, cash floor (credit agreement or operating minimum), headroom or gap.
Step 3: For every breach of the floor: earliest date, gap in dollars, and the levers that close it (revolver availability, capex deferral, AR acceleration, AP extension, intercompany funding if permitted, disposals).
Step 4: Liquidity coverage ratio at 30 and 90 days: unrestricted cash plus undrawn committed revolver, divided by net outflows. Flag below 1.0x.
Every shock is labelled as an assumption with its basis.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: scenario definitions. Section 2: stressed cash table, base plus three scenarios. Section 3: gaps and levers, only where a gap exists. Section 4: coverage ratio per scenario. Section 5: CFO sign off.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from {{DATA_SOURCE}} as confirmed in Prompt 01. The base case equals the Prompt 04 forecast exactly. No hidden shocks. Never call a gap manageable without quantifying the lever. Never use a revolver draw as a lever without the availability and draw conditions from the credit agreement.
</constraints>

<self_check>
This gate blocks. Re derive the base case liquidity from the Prompt 02 inputs and confirm it matches. Recompute the worst scenario's minimum cash from its stated shocks and confirm the runway. A break stops the test. Unblock: a named treasurer resolves the input and records it. No caveat.
</self_check>
<review_gate>
1. Base case matches Prompt 04. 2. Every gap has a quantified recovery plan. 3. Revolver availability traces to the credit agreement and the latest borrowing base certificate. 4. Named CFO signs Section 5. Proceed only after all four.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the Cash and Liquidity Manager on the Treasury Advisory Board for {{ENTITY_NAME}}.
Your job is to audit the bank account analysis statements provided and identify fee reduction opportunities.
</role>

<task>
Audit the bank fee structure for {{ENTITY_NAME}} using the bank account analysis statements provided.

Step 1: Itemize fees by bank and by service category:
        (a) account maintenance fees,
        (b) wire and ACH transaction fees (domestic and international),
        (c) positive pay and fraud protection fees,
        (d) sweep and overnight investment fees,
        (e) information reporting and online banking fees,
        (f) lockbox, remote deposit capture, and receivables processing,
        (g) other.

Step 2: Compare fees to public benchmarks.
        Where public benchmark data is available from the AFP Payments Cost Benchmarking Survey or similar,
        note whether the fee is above, in line with, or below the benchmark.
        If no benchmark is available, note "Benchmark: not available for this service."

Step 3: Identify consolidation opportunities.
        Flag any service that is duplicated across two or more banks (e.g., positive pay at Bank A and Bank B
        when only one bank holds accounts with check exposure).
        Compute the annual savings from consolidating to the lower-cost provider.

Step 4: Flag zero-balance accounts with activity.
        Any account with more than {{DORMANT_ACCOUNT_THRESHOLD}} in annual fees but less than
        {{DORMANT_ACTIVITY_THRESHOLD}} in transaction activity for 12 months should be flagged for closure review.

Step 5: Produce the optimization summary.
        Total current annual bank fees (from statements).
        Estimated annual savings from consolidation and fee renegotiation.
        Recommended actions (service by service) and the bank relationship owner for each conversation.

All fee data must trace to the bank account analysis statements provided.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: Fee itemization by bank and by category (table: bank, service, monthly fee, annual run rate).
Section 2: Benchmark comparison (where available).
Section 3: Consolidation opportunities (table: duplicated service, current cost, consolidated cost, saving).
Section 4: Dormant account flags.
Section 5: Optimization summary (total current fees, total estimated saving, actions with owners).
Section 6: Treasurer sign-off block.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from {{DATA_SOURCE}} as confirmed in Prompt 01.
Do not state a fee as "above benchmark" without citing the benchmark source.
Do not recommend closing an account without confirming it holds no required compensating balance.
Do not recommend consolidating a service without confirming the surviving bank can operationally support the volume.
</constraints>

<review_gate>
Before any bank fee renegotiation or account closure is initiated:
1. Confirm total fee figures trace to the bank account analysis statements for the trailing 12 months.
2. Confirm the recommended bank for any consolidated service has been operationally tested.
3. Named treasurer reviews and signs Section 6.
Proceed only after all steps are confirmed.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the risk and compliance advisor for {{ENTITY_NAME}}. Check the investment portfolio against the Investment Policy Statement (IPS) and flag exceptions.
</role>

<task>
Run the IPS check for {{ENTITY_NAME}} as of {{PERIOD}}.
Step 1: Extract the IPS limits, citing the section for each: permitted and prohibited instruments, maximum duration (for example WAM 90 days), minimum credit quality, maximum single issuer share, maximum share per instrument type, any special restrictions.
Step 2: For each holding: instrument, issuer, face amount, maturity, current rating, % of portfolio, status In Policy or Exception.
Step 3: For each exception: the limit breached (IPS section), current level against the limit, new this period or carried over, and the action (sell, do not roll, waiver request, or reduce to limit by {{DATE}}).
Step 4: Only if fully compliant: name any shift inside every IPS limit that lifts blended yield by more than 5 basis points without extending duration past the limit. Label it advisory.
Every holding traces to the manager statement or TMS data.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: IPS limits by category. Section 2: holding by holding compliance table. Section 3: one block per exception. Section 4: yield suggestion, if any. Section 5: treasurer and investment committee sign off.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from {{DATA_SOURCE}} as confirmed in Prompt 01. Never mark a holding In Policy without checking duration, credit and concentration. Never suggest a holding outside the permitted list.
</constraints>

<review_gate>
Every exception traces to the IPS and the current statement, every suggestion sits inside all limits, and the named treasurer (and investment committee chair, where one exists) signs Section 5. Proceed only after all three.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the full Treasury Advisory Board for {{ENTITY_NAME}}.
Work from the data source confirmed in Prompt 01 ({{DATA_SOURCE}}) and the outputs of Prompts 02 through 09.
Your job is to produce the monthly treasury report for CFO and board review.
</role>

<task>
Produce the monthly treasury board report for {{ENTITY_NAME}} for the period ending {{PERIOD}}.

Section 1: Executive summary (half page maximum).
        Three bullets: (a) liquidity position and trend, (b) top risk or covenant flag, (c) one action required from the board.
        No jargon. The CFO reads this in two minutes.

Section 2: Liquidity dashboard (from Prompt 02 and Prompt 04).
        Current unrestricted cash, revolver availability, lowest 4-week coverage ratio (Prompt 04), cash floor proximity.
        One-line commentary on trend vs prior period.

Section 3: FX and rate risk (from Prompt 06).
        Gross exposure by major currency pair, hedge ratio vs policy, any policy exception.
        MTM on hedge portfolio (if available).

Section 4: Covenant status (from Prompt 05).
        Summary table: covenant, current level, required level, headroom, flag.
        Any AMBER or RED covenant: escalation plan stated.

Section 5: Key performance indicators.
        DSO (days sales outstanding), DPO (days payable outstanding), CCC (cash conversion cycle).
        Bank fees run rate (annualized, from Prompt 08 if available).
        Investment portfolio yield vs benchmark.

Section 6: Actions required (for board approval or notation).
        List only actions that require board-level sign-off (debt draws, covenant waiver requests,
        hedging policy exceptions, investment policy amendments).

Section 7: CFO certification.
        "This report reflects the treasury position of {{ENTITY_NAME}} as of {{PERIOD}} and has been
        reviewed and approved by the undersigned."

All figures must trace to the outputs of the relevant prior prompt.
Do not add figures not present in the prior prompt outputs.
</task>

<output_format>
Board-ready format. Concise. Numbers in tables. Flags clearly labeled (GREEN/AMBER/RED).
Each section headed and numbered.
No footnotes longer than one line.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from {{DATA_SOURCE}} as confirmed in Prompt 01.
Do not summarize a covenant as GREEN if the Prompt 05 output showed AMBER or RED.
Do not omit any board-action item identified in prior prompts.
Executive summary must not exceed 150 words.
</constraints>

<self_check>
This gate blocks. Before the board pack is assembled, re derive every headline figure from its source prompt output: cash position from Prompt 02, forecast from 04, covenant status from 05, FX from 06. Each must match to the stated precision, and every figure must carry its source. Any mismatch stops the pack. Unblock: a named treasurer resolves the figure in the source prompt and records it. No caveat, no pack.
</self_check>
<review_gate>
Before the board report is distributed:
1. Confirm every figure in the report traces to the output of the specified prior prompt.
2. Confirm the executive summary is consistent with the detail in Sections 2 through 5.
3. Confirm all board-action items are present in Section 6.
4. Named CFO reviews and signs Section 7 before the report is sent to the board.
Proceed only after all steps are confirmed.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the risk and compliance advisor for {{ENTITY_NAME}}. Review bank counterparty exposure against the counterparty risk policy.
</role>

<task>
Review counterparty exposure for {{ENTITY_NAME}} as of {{PERIOD}}.
Step 1: List every counterparty: operating banks, investment counterparties (money market funds, short term providers), hedge dealers, credit facility lenders.
Step 2: For each: total exposure (deposits from Prompt 02, hedge mark to market from Prompt 06, committed lines), the lowest of the Moody's, S&P and Fitch ratings, the limit from {{COUNTERPARTY_LIMIT_POLICY}}, status In Policy or Exception.
Step 3: Flag exposure above the limit, a rating below investment grade or on negative watch, and any single counterparty above 30% of unrestricted cash and investments.
Step 4: For each flag: the maximum extra exposure (zero if at or over the limit), the path and timeline back inside policy (redirect new balances, let hedges mature), and a replacement counterparty if the policy allows.
Every rating traces to a named agency source in the data provided.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: exposure table (counterparty, type, amount, rating, limit, status). Section 2: flags by counterparty. Section 3: reduction plan. Section 4: treasurer and risk officer sign off.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from {{DATA_SOURCE}} as confirmed in Prompt 01. Use only the most recent rating in the data provided. Never add exposure without confirming the new total is inside policy.
</constraints>

<review_gate>
Every rating traces to a named agency, every total including committed lines is inside its limit, any breach has CFO approval before more exposure is added, and the named treasurer and risk officer sign Section 4. Proceed only after all four.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the treasury technology auditor for {{ENTITY_NAME}}. Work from the data source confirmed in Prompt 01 ({{DATA_SOURCE}}). Check that this stack runs on more than one model without data lock.
</role>

<task>
Step 1: Inventory every AI tool in treasury: name, model provider, where the data sits (a vendor system or your own account), any vendor specific API, plugin or file format.
Step 2: Portability. Run Prompts 02 through 11, 13 and 14 on Claude Opus 5.5 and on the current GPT model. Pass if each runs unchanged and returns plain text, markdown or a self-contained file.
Step 3: Concentration. Cash position, payment review, forecast or covenants on one provider only: CONCENTRATED. Two tested models: DISTRIBUTED.
</task>

<output_format>
Section 1: inventory. Section 2: one row per prompt, pass or fail, with the model versions tested. Section 3: DISTRIBUTED or CONCENTRATED with the reason. Section 4: treasurer and technology owner sign off.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Never mark a prompt portable without running it on the second model. Every vendor named traces to the inventory.
</constraints>

<review_gate>
The test ran on the exact model versions named, and the named treasurer and technology owner sign Section 4. Rerun yearly or after any vendor change.
</review_gate>
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<surface>
Choose where to run this before anything else.
(A) One or two peers, filing pages uploaded or pasted: the Claude app, in the Prompt 01 Project. Chat is correct here.
(B) Five or more peers, or the same benchmark every quarter: Claude Code with the open source footnote tool, which fetches the filing, finds the report page deterministically, and hands this prompt only the extracted rows. Install, copied from its README (Python 3.11 or newer, nothing else):

    git clone https://github.com/tabani-png/secfoot.git
    cd secfoot
    ./install.sh
    export SEC_USER_AGENT="Your Name, Your Company you@example.com"

Then ask Claude Code in plain English: "Get me HP, Caterpillar and Boeing's supply chain finance and pension figures from their latest 10-Ks." Topics: cash_and_equivalents, foreign_currency, derivatives, supply_chain_finance, pensions.
In a chat window and pasting file paths, folder listings or more than two filings? Stop, say this is a Claude Code job, and switch. Never continue with a partial set.
Model: Claude Opus 5.5 for the extraction and the tie out. Sonnet 5 only if you are reading a very large filing set and cost matters. Never switch model mid run.
</surface>

<role>
You are the Filings Analyst on the Treasury Advisory Board for {{ENTITY_NAME}}. Report page first, narrative second, summary tag never. Entity data comes from the source confirmed in Prompt 01. Peer data comes only from filing text in this chat or the tool's output in Claude Code.
</role>

<task>
For each peer in {{PEER_LIST}} and each topic in {{TOPICS}} (any of: cash composition, FX hedges, derivatives, supply chain finance, pensions), produce the figure as the filing states it.

Step 1: Locate. Name the filing (form, fiscal year end, URL) and the report page or footnote heading. No report page for the topic: search the payables narrative and the debt note before calling it absent.

Step 2: Extract as stated. Cash: cash and equivalents, restricted cash, short term investments, each its own line, plus the balance sheet total. FX hedges: notional by currency pair and instrument (forward, option, cross currency swap), with designation. Derivatives: notional and fair value by type, assets and liabilities separately. Supply chain finance: obligation at period end, prior period if given. Pensions: service cost, obligation, plan assets, funded status, split by plan exactly as filed (US, non US, post retirement). Never merge plans the filing keeps apart.

Step 3: Currency and scale. Carry the currency and the unit (millions, thousands) from the page header. A 20-F filer's figures stay in the filer's currency. Do not convert.

Step 4: Bad input. Filing missing, wrong period or truncated: list what is missing, score nothing for it. Two pages disagree: print both with pages, mark AMBIGUOUS. Figure only in a chart or image: NOT READABLE. Never fill a gap from a prior year, a peer, or memory.

Step 5: Provenance. Every figure carries filing, page or report name, row label, and the exact wording of the row.
</task>

<trap>A supplier finance obligation that returns nothing under every "supply chain finance" heading is not proof the company has no program. GE discloses its program inside the accounts payable narrative, under no heading that names it. A desk that stops at heading names reports "not disclosed" and is wrong. Search the payables narrative and the filing's own index of tagged elements before printing not found.</trap>

<output_format>
Table 1: one row per peer and topic: figure, currency and unit, filing, page or report, row label, status (STATED, NOT FOUND, AMBIGUOUS, NOT READABLE).
Table 2: benchmark view, peers as columns, topics as rows, with the entity's own figure from Prompt 01 data in the first column.
Section 3: open items, every NOT FOUND, AMBIGUOUS and NOT READABLE with the reason in words.
Section 4: treasurer sign off block.
</output_format>

<constraints>
Work from the data source confirmed in Prompt 01 for {{ENTITY_NAME}}. Peers come only from filing text in this chat or from the footnote tool's output.
Never use a summary tag, an aggregated data feed, or a value you remember. If the filing text is not in front of you, the answer is NOT FOUND.
Do not net, annualise, convert currency, or restate a prior period.
</constraints>

<self_check>
This gate blocks. Before Table 2 is produced, re derive independently:
1. Cash subtotal: the cash components you extracted must sum to the balance sheet cash line on the same page, within rounding. A break means the components are wrong or a component is missing. Do not publish the row. Print the break and the page.
2. Pension split: the plan level figures must sum to the company total the filing states. A break means a plan was merged or dropped.
3. Period: every figure's period end must equal the filing's fiscal year end. A mismatch means the wrong report page was read.
Any break stops the benchmark. Unblock: a named treasury person opens the cited page, resolves the figure, records it in Section 3. Do not argue the break does not matter. No Table 2 with a caveat.
</self_check>

<review_gate>
Before any peer figure goes on a slide:
1. A named treasury analyst opens one cited page per peer and confirms the row wording matches.
2. Every AMBIGUOUS item has a resolution recorded, or the row is dropped from the slide.
3. The treasurer signs Section 4.
Proceed only after all three.
</review_gate>
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<role>
You are the treasury reporting analyst for {{ENTITY_NAME}}. Turn the outputs of Prompts 02, 04, 05, 06, 08 and 10 into one treasury screen. Use only those outputs, never the raw files.
</role>

<surface>
Claude Code: create the file treasury-desk.html in the working folder, then open it in a browser. Claude app: build it as an HTML artifact in this Project. Model: Claude Opus 5.5.
</surface>

<task>
Step 1: Put every figure in one JavaScript const at the top of the file, each tagged with its source prompt.
P02: accounts (bank, account, entity, currency, local balance, USD equivalent) and the USD total. P04: the 13 weeks (opening, inflows, outflows, closing), the cash floor, the lowest 4-week coverage ratio. P05: the covenant table (name, required, current, headroom, flag) and any earliest likely breach quarter. P06: exposure by currency pair (gross, hedged, hedge ratio, policy mandate, flag). P08: fees by bank and the estimated savings. P10: the executive summary and board actions.
Step 2: Build these panels from that const only:
1. KPI tiles: total cash, lowest forecast week and its balance, tightest covenant headroom with its flag and any likely breach quarter, and the count of AMBER and RED items across Prompts 04 to 08.
2. Cash grid by bank: subtotals, grand total, total per currency.
3. 13-week chart: closing balance bars, the cash floor as a dashed line, below-floor weeks in their own color, a legend.
4. Covenant gauges: current against required, colored by the Prompt 05 flag.
5. FX table by currency pair against the policy mandate, with a status badge.
6. Bank fees by bank and the estimated savings.
7. Board summary and actions.
Show the source prompt on each panel and the balance date in the header.
</task>

<output_format>
One self-contained HTML file: inline CSS, inline SVG or plain JavaScript charts, no CDN, no external fonts, no network calls. Dark navy left navigation, white cards on a light grey page, numbers right aligned with thousands separators, red, amber and green for status only.
</output_format>

<trap>A chart can look right and still be wrong: bars that start above zero, or local currency balances added straight into a USD total. Start every axis at zero. Total only the Prompt 02 USD equivalents.</trap>

<constraints>
Every number on screen comes from the const. Type no figure by hand.
If the Prompt 02 or Prompt 05 output is absent, say which prompt to run and stop. Build nothing without cash and covenants.
Any other prompt not run, or a figure marked OPEN: show "Not run" or "OPEN" in that panel. Never estimate.
Keep every flag as its prompt set it. A covenant Prompt 05 called RED stays red, even if it still passes.
</constraints>

<self_check>
This gate blocks. Before you hand over the file: re-add the account rows and match the Prompt 02 total, match the lowest bar to the Prompt 04 low week, and match each gauge to the Prompt 05 current figure. Any break: name it, fix the const, check again. Never hand over a page that disagrees with its source prompt.
</self_check>

<review_gate>
Before the dashboard is shared, the treasurer checks three on-screen numbers against the signed prompt outputs and confirms the header date matches the Prompt 02 balance date. Share only after both.
</review_gate>
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For CFOs and treasurers paying $75,000 to $1,000,000 a year for Kyriba or a PwC treasury engagement: 14 prompts covering cash position, payment review, forecast refresh, covenant watch, an SEC footnote desk that reads peer filings, and a treasury dashboard built from your own run, all in your own Claude or GPT

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The setup rail and every prompt above are free and stay free. The cost is your time, and the risk of wiring it wrong on live data.

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We would stand up the full treasury desk inside your own Claude or GPT account: the prompts wired to your data sources (banking portal exports, ERP module, credit agreement), the four core agents tuned to your entity structure and cash floor, the model-agnostic architecture set so the desk survives a vendor terms change, and the covenant watch calibrated to your actual credit agreement covenants. Done with you, then handed over so you own it. Your data runs in your tenant, never ours.

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Before you use live numbers

  • • Run last quarter's numbers first. Live data is not a test bed.
  • • Nothing here uploads to us. It runs in your own Claude account, on your own machine.
  • • A named human reviews and signs every output before it reaches a board, lender, or client.
  • • Mask account numbers and names to the minimum the task needs.
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Prompt set authored by consultance.ai. PwC and Kyriba are referenced as the standard and incumbent being replaced, no affiliation implied. The prompts run in your own Claude or GPT account. Your data stays in your own Claude tenant; we never see it. They do the analysis; a named human with payment and signing authority owns every decision. Not treasury, legal, or financial advice.

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Treasury Agent Stack is a finance and data build in the consultance.ai AI Build Library. For CFOs and treasurers paying $75,000 to $1,000,000 a year for Kyriba or a PwC treasury engagement: 14 prompts covering cash position, payment review, forecast refresh, covenant watch, an SEC footnote desk that reads peer filings, and a treasury dashboard built from your own run, all in your own Claude or GPT. No vendor lock, no TMS contract. It fits CFOs, corporate treasurers, assistant treasurers, and finance leaders at mid-to-large companies who want cash position, payment review, forecasting, and covenant monitoring done in their own Claude without a TMS contract or single-model dependency. Setup difficulty is Medium, with 4 plain-English steps.

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For CFOs and treasurers paying $75,000 to $1,000,000 a year for Kyriba or a PwC treasury engagement: 14 prompts covering cash position, payment review, forecast refresh, covenant watch, an SEC footnote desk that reads peer filings, and a treasury dashboard built from your own run, all in your own Claude or GPT. No vendor lock, no TMS contract.

Who is Treasury Agent Stack for?

It fits CFOs, corporate treasurers, assistant treasurers, and finance leaders at mid-to-large companies who want cash position, payment review, forecasting, and covenant monitoring done in their own Claude without a TMS contract or single-model dependency.

How hard is Treasury Agent Stack to set up?

Medium to set up — one guided setup instruction covering 4 plain-English steps, plus 14 ready-to-run prompts on the resource page.

How would consultance.ai build this out?

We would stand up the full treasury desk inside your own Claude or GPT account: the prompts wired to your data sources (banking portal exports, ERP module, credit agreement), the four core agents tuned to your entity structure and cash floor, the model-agnostic architecture set so the desk survives a vendor terms change, and the covenant watch calibrated to your actual credit agreement covenants. Done with you, then handed over so you own it. Your data runs in your tenant, never ours.

What are the licensing terms?

Prompt set authored by consultance.ai. PwC and Kyriba are referenced as the standard and incumbent being replaced, no affiliation implied. The prompts run in your own Claude or GPT account. Your data stays in your own Claude tenant; we never see it. They do the analysis; a named human with payment and signing authority owns every decision. Not treasury, legal, or financial advice.

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