Kian Golshan
I build tools with AI and software to turn ideas into working systems and explore what's possible.
I work as an Analyst on the Valuation team at Capital Group, valuing private investments. The role requires rigor, precision, and judgment when the numbers do not tell the full story.
I did not come from a technical background. I started using AI tools like Claude, Claude Code, and GitHub and realized the distance between an idea and a working system had narrowed. That changed how I think about solving problems.
I began building. Not to become a software engineer, but because I kept encountering friction in my work and thinking there should be a better way. So I started creating tools. Some are genuinely useful. Others taught me more about process than outcome. All of it compounds.
This site documents that work: the projects, the experiments, and the thinking behind them. I am especially interested in the intersection of AI and financial analysis, and I am building toward roles where those worlds overlap more directly. If that resonates, I am always open to a conversation.
Current role
Valuation Analyst
Company
Capital Group
Focus
Finance × AI
Git without the Git. A VS Code extension that wraps version control in plain English — one-click snapshots, GitHub backups, and risk-free experiments in a single sidebar panel. No terminal. No jargon. The safety net every vibe-coder needs.
A full-stack investment management and financial document analysis platform. Upload, parse, review, and compare financial statements across your portfolio — all in one place. Features include: Investment/Security/Document Management, Financial Parsing & Extraction, Financial Dashboard, and Workflow Tracking.
An AI-powered equity research tool that fetches SEC filings directly from EDGAR and generates institutional-grade analyst reports in seconds — covering full financial analysis, investment thesis, competitive positioning, and an investment recommendation rating, all exportable as a professionally formatted PDF.
A full-stack web application that automatically tracks Indian stocks closing at their upper or lower circuit limits on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). It downloads official NSE data daily, detects which stocks hit their regulatory price band limits at market close, and presents everything through an interactive analytics dashboard.
An internal tool for analyzing SEC NPORT-P filings to track and compare private investment valuations across institutional funds. Search by company name or ticker to see how different funds mark the same asset over time.
An AI tool that tracks how a company's SEC-disclosed risk factors evolve across up to 10 years of annual filings, surfacing newly emerging threats, removed risks, and escalating concerns across eight risk categories. Outputs a four-panel analysis including an executive summary, year-over-year diffs, longitudinal themes, and a risk intensity heatmap, powered by a single Claude Sonnet API call on locally pre-compressed data.
More in progress — updated as things get built.
What building with AI accidentally teaches you.
A non-technical person's guide to getting started, written for anyone beginning their Claude Code journey.
A complete coding novice takes the plunge into Claude Code, battles the terminal, survives GitHub, and ends up building a tool in an hour that used to take hours of manual work.
Writing here is occasional — when something is worth saying.
Drop your email and I'll reach out when I ship something new — a project, a note, or something worth sharing.
Always happy to talk finance, AI tools, or what I'm building. Whether you have a question, an idea, or just want to compare notes — reach out.