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A one-person business that buys e-commerce brands says Claude Code scripts and a long prompt handle lead filtering, first-pass analysis and month-end spreadsheet updates.
The owner has Claude Code add to an end-of-month financial spreadsheet script, an internal dashboard and a script that filters inbound brand listings. A long prompt does a first-pass analysis of each prospect, and Shortcut.ai tidies the profit and loss statements sellers send.
The owner says the code saves him a bunch of time and does what he needs, but gives no figures.
This is the owner's own claim in a Hacker News comment. He says the code is not up to a software team's standard, and the source states no time saved. Profit and loss statements from small sellers are often wrong, so check the numbers before relying on any AI summary.
Paste into ChatGPT, Claude or another AI assistant and fill in the square brackets.
Here is the listing and the profit and loss statement for [business for sale]. Summarize revenue, margins and anything odd, list the questions I should ask the seller, and flag figures that do not add up. Show me your analysis and the questions before I contact the seller.
Source: Hacker News · Jan 15, 2026. Summarised in our own words; read the original for the full account.
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