Audit testing automation
100+ sub-agents run one substantive test concurrently, each ingesting prepared-by-client (PBC) documents, testing a sample, and writing a cited work paper.
- Before
A substantive test over hundreds of samples. Each one opened, tested, documented by hand.
- What we did
Ingest the PBC documents. Fan the sample out: one sub-agent per item, 125 running at once. Aggregate results to a database. Write the work paper with a citation into the client document for every tested item.
- After
The procedure completes in a fraction of the time with a full trail. A global professional services firm runs this air-gapped in its own tenant, over a year in production, thousands of users.
Methodology stays with the firm. Athena runs the procedure; it does not write the standard.
Attribution is the product. That is also the audit.
Client documents to completed audit procedure with full trail
“Lets us get a lot more out of our data than [...] We can sit on top of all of the data in [our data warehouse] as opposed to just, like, our little ingested, you know, three gigabytes semantic models. I think we have a lot of power here.”
“The performance, say, the kind of speed and latency on those APIs for creating assets, was better in [our private cloud] than it was in managed cloud.”
“This is super cool. So in the future, our data will be sitting in [a cloud data warehouse]... How is this running so quickly?”
“I'm very excited. This is something that I have been piecemealing with the limited tools that analysts get... rather than me at nine PM getting a failure email and deciding I'll just do it myself.”
“It's good to understand the capability of the platform. That how far, and how quickly you guys can get these things going [...] that has been impressive overall.”
“Gave Athena the spreadsheet, explained which column I was trying to figure out, and then ten secs it told me... exactly how the calculation was based on the other data.”
“He wrote the entire stuff. By itself. And I was there, and I was thinking, alright. If I had to write all this stuff, I mean, I would've spent days, days, days.”
“I send that to the programmer and he said, alright. I read your file. I copied the section of the code because he has the right interface, and it works. Wow. Just like magic.”
“One workspace. All different, let's say, avatars of their output data. Right? Suddenly, it's dashboard. Excel is here. PowerPoint is when it's all together. It's very impressive.”
“Use the Athena platform probably closer to the concept and how it was designed, like, with the spaces architecture where you've got a set of primitives and capabilities, and you bring together the right set of capabilities to solve a task.”
Verbatim from customer calls. Customers anonymized.
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