Build It Yourself: a vibe coding workshop for finance teams (Part 1) | Cube

Finance teams can now build real, persisting tools (dashboards, reports, automations) without an engineering team, just by describing what they want in plain English. In this workshop, Cube's Charlie and Rob from finance and operations walk through what vibe coding is, how to do it well, and how to keep the numbers accurate enough for the board. The centerpiece is a live budget vs actuals dashboard built in Claude on data from Cube. Built for FP&A teams and the CFOs who have to defend the figures. In this video: What vibe coding is: describe, generate, refine, no coding background required The four building blocks in Claude (skills, artifacts, code, and agents) and when to use each The right way to work with AI: plan first, make it ask clarifying questions, approve the plan before it builds Why accuracy lives in your data: Claude hit about 60% accuracy on a spreadsheet vs 100% reading Cube through the MCP server A walkthrough of a budget vs actuals artifact with flagged variances, journal-entry drill-down, vendor notes, and export to Sheets An automated Slack workflow that DMs department heads about flagged expenses and writes their replies back into the artifact Rob's rules for shipping safely: one source of truth, citations, read before write, version control, and a human owner on every artifact Chapters: 0:00 Introduction: at Cube, finance runs the company 3:00 What vibe coding is 6:30 Why it matters for finance teams 10:30 What you can build with AI 13:00 Skills, artifacts, code, and agents 19:00 How to work with AI well: plan first 24:00 Accuracy: Cube as the clean data layer 28:30 Demo: the internal artifact gallery 33:00 Demo: the budget vs actuals dashboard 42:00 Auditability: journal entries and vendor notes 46:00 The automated Slack variance workflow 49:00 Making it safe and audit ready 58:00 Q&A Cube is the Agentic FP&A Platform, built to make every company a finance-driven organization. It gives finance teams the operating intelligence to lead the business at the speed of AI, running a continuous loop of signal, understanding, decisioning, alignment, and action. Instead of just reporting on what happened, Cube helps finance determine what should change, align leaders around those choices, and drive execution. Book a demo at cubesoftware.com/get-a-demo. Learn more at cubesoftware.com.