About

I’m Niall Griffin, an ACCA-qualified financial accountant based in Ireland, with a background in audit and accounting. Outside of work I’ve become increasingly interested in what AI can actually do — not the hype, but the practical reality of building and using these tools.

This blog is where I document that. It runs across a few threads: projects I’m building (like GrantCraft, an AI-assisted grant tool for Irish community groups), the tools and infrastructure I’m using, AI applied to community and voluntary work, and the occasional broader thought on where automation and optimisation are taking the accounting profession.

I’m not writing to a schedule and I’m not selling anything. I do this because I find it genuinely interesting, and because writing things down is how I think.

Views here are my own and don’t represent my employer. Nothing on this site is financial or accounting advice.