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deliver real results

From idea to execution, we help you design, build, and optimize digital products that drive adoption, loyalty, and revenue. Partner with senior experts across product design, growth, strategy, and development — flexibly and impactfully.

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From manual to AI-driven: reinventing financial workflows for Profit Isle

Streamlining monthly financial updates with a structured, intuitive AI-powered classification experience

Client introduction

Profit Isle provides advanced financial operations solutions tailored for CFOs and FP&A teams, helping mid-sized businesses streamline financial workflows. Their platform replaces manual spreadsheets with structured flows, enabling automated profitability analysis and smarter financial decision-making.

Client
Profit Isle
Service
AI products
Industry
AI & digital interfaces
Duration
8 weeks

Project challenge

Profit Isle’s previous financial update process was:

  • Heavily manual, relying significantly on senior finance staff.
  • Repetitive, requiring constant reclassification of similar transactions.
  • Vulnerable to inconsistent assignments and lacked historical context.
  • Devoid of intelligent tools to automate accurate classifications.

This complexity posed significant challenges, including productivity loss, increased error rates, and cognitive fatigue among finance teams.

Solution
overview

Empha Studio designed a robust, 7-step financial update flow enhanced with AI-powered assignment capabilities. The solution included intuitive workflows, transparent AI suggestions, and streamlined review processes, significantly improving operational efficiency and user experience.

70%+

accurate AI transaction suggestions within two months post-launch

−60%

reduction in monthly update processing time

+35%

mprovement in traceability through contextual AI recommendations

Design thinking
in action

01

Emphasize

Conducted detailed interviews and workflow analysis sessions with Profit Isle’s users, identifying primary pain points around manual data classification and cognitive overload.

02

Define

Reframed the core problem from manual data handling to automated, transparent, and user-friendly financial updates.

03

Ideate

Explored solutions through brainstorming sessions, focusing on intuitive UI patterns, AI-driven assignment suggestions, and historical data integration.

04

Prototype

Developed interactive prototypes demonstrating step-by-step financial updates and integrated AI logic for real-time user feedback.

05

Test

Validated prototypes with finance professionals, using iterative feedback to refine the AI suggestion accuracy, interface intuitiveness, and overall user flow.

Key learnings

Clarity builds
trust in automation

Transparent AI logic boosts user confidence and long-term adoption

Good design
reduces mental load

Streamlined workflows help users navigate complex financial data efficiently

Control matters
in automation

Balancing AI support with manual oversight is key to finance team success

Conclusion

By partnering with Profit Isle, Empha Studio successfully transitioned their financial update workflow from manual to AI-assisted, delivering measurable improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and user satisfaction.

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What is AI automation, exactly — and what can you build?
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AI automation means using large language models (like GPT-4) to handle repeatable tasks inside your business. We design and build custom agents that can qualify leads, summarize content, route tickets, trigger workflows, or power internal copilots.

Do you only work on AI and automation projects?
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Not at all. While we specialize in building intelligent systems, we also offer full-service UX/UI and product design — from discovery to delivery. Many of our clients come to us purely for design support, with or without AI.

What kind of companies do you usually work with?
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We collaborate with startups, scale-ups, and enterprise teams across fintech, SaaS, healthcare, e-commerce, logistics, and more. Whether you’re building your first product or scaling a complex system, we adapt to your stage and stack.

Can you help us design or improve our existing product interface?
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Absolutely. We run UX audits, onboarding redesigns, and complete product design engagements. Whether you're looking to clean up a dashboard, increase activation, or launch a new feature — we’ve got the design depth to support it.

Can you integrate AI agents into our current tools or workflows?
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Yes — that’s the core of what we do. We build agents that connect directly to your tools (Slack, Notion, HubSpot, CRMs, internal platforms), automate actions across them, and fit how your team already works. No need to change your stack.

Do we need technical staff to manage these AI agents?
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No — we design every system to be maintainable without in-house ML engineers. We handle the technical setup, logic, and integrations, and offer optional support plans to monitor and optimize performance post-launch.

What if we want to start with just design — or just automation?
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That’s totally fine. You can engage us for standalone UX/UI work, product discovery, or AI automation — or combine them. We’re built to plug into your priorities and scale with your roadmap.