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      "title": "Oxus: AI-native automation for SOX audits",
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        "markdown": "Hi all, \n\nWe’re [Janet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liujanet8/), [Christine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinewatts2018/), and [Melinda](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinda-314-liu/) - a team from MIT building [Oxus](https://www.oxus-ai.com/).\n\n**TL;DR:** With [Oxus](https://www.oxus-ai.com/), internal audit teams save millions in outsourcing fees and get audits done 10x faster. Reach out if you are/know of any internal auditors! \n\nhttps://youtu.be/gmgO_Pa-vZk\n\n**❌ The problem**\n\nPublic companies are required to prove their financial reporting and underlying processes - from payments to system access - work as expected. Today, that work is **highly manual and costly**:\n\n* **Weeks spent scoping what to audit**, assessing risk across financial statements, sub-accounts, and business units\n* Meeting with stakeholders, then spending **5-15 hours to turn notes into a flowchart** visualizing each process\n* Digging through **spreadsheets, PDFs, screenshots, and emails** to find relevant evidence\n* **Thousands of hours/year repeating the same checks**: sifting through 200-page documents for signatures, matching orders to invoices, reviewing system access for hundreds of employees, etc\n\nAnd it costs **$200–$800/hour** to outsource this work to outside accounting/consulting firms, adding up to **$300K–$1M+ per year** in annual spend.\n\n🐂 **The solution**\n\nWhat Oxus enables:\n\n* **Accelerate audit scoping**, automatically surfacing higher-risk areas using both financial metrics and qualitative factors\n* **Within minutes**, **generate and update process flowcharts** immediately after meetings\n* **Simplify evidence review**, so teams can locate and interpret information across disparate files and systems\n* **Eliminate repetitive manual checks**, handling large volumes of comparisons and reviews at once and producing reviewer-ready documentation with labeled, traceable evidence\n\nWith Oxus, teams save **millions** in outsourcing fees and get audits done **10x faster.** \n\n**The ask**\n\nWe’re onboarding early customers and would love intros to any of the following at pre-IPO/public companies:\n\n* Chief Audit Executives / Chief Financial Officers\n* Heads of Internal Audit / SOX / Internal Controls / Platform Controls / Risk Assurance\n* Internal auditors\n* Controllers\n\nFeel free to reach out directly to us at [founders@oxus-ai.com](mailto:founders@oxus-ai.com) or book a call [here](https://calendly.com/liujanet/janet-christine-melinda?month=2025-12) to learn more!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96466&key=user_uploads/1547632/bf2d4900-8d4f-46f8-ba71-399ab2f5ac18)\n\n",
        "text": "Hi all,\n\nWe’re Janet, Christine, and Melinda - a team from MIT building Oxus.\n\nTL;DR: With Oxus, internal audit teams save millions in outsourcing fees and get audits done 10x faster. Reach out if you are/know of any internal auditors!\n\nhttps://youtu.be/gmgO_Pa-vZk\n\n❌ The problem\n\nPublic companies are required to prove their financial reporting and underlying processes - from payments to system access - work as expected. Today, that work is highly manual and costly:\n\n- Weeks spent scoping what to audit, assessing risk across financial statements, sub-accounts, and business units\n- Meeting with stakeholders, then spending 5-15 hours to turn notes into a flowchart visualizing each process\n- Digging through spreadsheets, PDFs, screenshots, and emails to find relevant evidence\n- Thousands of hours/year repeating the same checks: sifting through 200-page documents for signatures, matching orders to invoices, reviewing system access for hundreds of employees, etc\n\nAnd it costs $200–$800/hour to outsource this work to outside accounting/consulting firms, adding up to $300K–$1M+ per year in annual spend.\n\n🐂 The solution\n\nWhat Oxus enables:\n\n- Accelerate audit scoping, automatically surfacing higher-risk areas using both financial metrics and qualitative factors\n- Within minutes, generate and update process flowcharts immediately after meetings\n- Simplify evidence review, so teams can locate and interpret information across disparate files and systems\n- Eliminate repetitive manual checks, handling large volumes of comparisons and reviews at once and producing reviewer-ready documentation with labeled, traceable evidence\n\nWith Oxus, teams save millions in outsourcing fees and get audits done 10x faster.\n\nThe ask\n\nWe’re onboarding early customers and would love intros to any of the following at pre-IPO/public companies:\n\n- Chief Audit Executives / Chief Financial Officers\n- Heads of Internal Audit / SOX / Internal Controls / Platform Controls / Risk Assurance\n- Internal auditors\n- Controllers\n\nFeel free to reach out directly to us at founders@oxus-ai.com or book a call here to learn more!"
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