Introducing ALK Pulse: dashboards that watch themselves
Every finance team has a list of things someone is supposed to check. Cash across accounts. Invoices past due. Payouts that haven't landed. Supplier payments that slipped.
Usually that list lives in a spreadsheet someone rebuilds every Monday, or in one person's head. Neither holds up well.
Today we're launching ALK Pulse. You tell ALK what to watch, and it builds the dashboard and keeps it up to date.
What Pulse does
Pulse is ALK's monitoring dashboard for your connected data. You don't build charts cell by cell. You describe what you care about in plain language, like "track supplier payment delays from Drive," and ALK:
- Builds the dashboard. Charts, tables, key numbers and a summary of what changed, all arranged for you.
- Refreshes it on your schedule. Daily, weekly or monthly, or only when you ask. The view is current when you open it, not current as of whoever last updated the sheet.
- Shows where every number came from. Each card shows when it was last refreshed and which sources it used.
Start from the systems you already use
Pulse works with the data you already have. It can build dashboards from:
Xero, QuickBooks, Stripe, Paystack, Flutterwave, Mono, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Acumatica, ClickHouse, Google Sheets, Google Drive, OneDrive and the web.
For Google Drive and OneDrive, you can pick the exact files Pulse should use rather than a whole folder, so the dashboard only covers what you mean it to.
Three ways to set it up
- Generate a dashboard (recommended). Give it a title, describe what you want to track, pick your sources and set a refresh schedule. You can also pick up to four goals, like stability, cost reduction or efficiency gains, so ALK shapes the analysis around what matters to you.
- Start from a conversation. Describe what you want to ALK in plain language and open a dashboard from there.
- Add ready-made widgets. Pin single-purpose cards for balance, cash flow and recent transactions (currently available only for Mono).
Dashboards are organized in tabs, starting with Finances and Inventory, so different kinds of data stay separate.
What teams watch on Pulse
A few examples of what you can ask Pulse to track:
- Cash position. Balances and cash flow in one view, not one login per bank.
- Receivables. Invoices past due in QuickBooks or Xero, and how late they are.
- Payouts. What Stripe, Paystack or Flutterwave paid out, day by day.
- Supplier payments. Delays and exceptions pulled from the files your team already keeps in Drive or OneDrive.
The point is to see what changed before it turns into a problem at month-end.
How Pulse fits with the rest of ALK
Pulse works alongside the rest of ALK, and each part has its own job:
- Workflows do the active work: checking, matching and validating documents.
- Pulse watches the numbers that come out of that work and out of your other systems.
- Analyst is where you go deeper, with questions, drill-downs and history.
Together they cover the whole job: doing the work, watching the numbers and understanding what they mean.
Built for numbers that matter
Finance teams can't afford to be "mostly right," so trust comes first. Every card shows its sources and when it was last refreshed. ALK runs with zero data retention, and you can read more about our security and compliance at trust.wamiri.com.
Start your Pulse
Connect one source. Describe one thing you want to keep an eye on. See what Pulse builds.
Contributions
Engineering
Pulse lead: David Ajayi
Destiny Saturday, Hamzat Tiamiyu, Praise Ajayi
Infrastructure & Security
Moyo Adeyemi, Olawale Shogbola
Deployment
Boluwatife Jemiriye, Segun Agbetuyi
Product Testing & Feedback
James Isibor
Growth
Samuels Immanuel
Operations
Eunice John
Founders
Obafemi Elegbede, Semilore Akintelure, Tolu Alebiosu
Advisors
Bevan Smith, Faizah Balogun