The Dutch Investors #31 | Interview w/ Braden Dennis the founder and CEO of Fiscal.ai on entrepreneurship, investing and software
Apr 24, 2025
Braden Dennis, founder and CEO of FinChat (a Toronto research platform for fundamental investors), is an entrepreneur and podcaster building investor-focused software. He talks about FinChat’s vision, capturing company KPIs and filings, building and scaling a niche SaaS, preparing financially to take risks, and the role of AI and agents in automating research workflows.
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Design The Cap Table To Match Your Exit Plan
- Decide early what you want the company to optimize for and build the cap table accordingly; avoid irreversible dilution mistakes.
- Braden warns cap table mistakes and mismatched investor expectations are the founder's worst irreversible error.
Automate Busywork To Amplify Human Judgment
- The highest-value investors remove busywork so they can think; tools should automate back-office tasks to free human judgment.
- Braden invokes Buffett's system: no computer, just thinking; FinChat aims to strip paperwork via AI.
Protect Investors' Temperament By Removing Noise
- Build tools that support investors' process without noise to preserve psychological edge.
- Braden intentionally keeps FinChat opinion-free and offers a 'business owner mode' that hides stock prices and market headlines.
