Business and Sales · X · 🇺🇸 United States · via agentusecases.ai
University recovers US$100,000 with a treasury skill
Cornell's finance and AI teams built a skill to identify and chase unidentified payments.
- Profession
- Financial Analyst
- Tools
- Claude
- Source
- x.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- June 23, 2026
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
According to Ethan Mollick, Cornell University's finance and AI teams created the "/treasury" skill for Claude, used to identify and claim unidentified funds.
How it went
The post cites US$100,000 recovered in overdue payments.
Good to know
The figure comes from the post; there is no public report detailing the method.
The prompt
I have a report of [number] unidentified receipts [attached] and the list of open invoices [attached]. Propose the most likely match for each amount, with a confidence level, and list the ones that require contacting the payer.
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