Chatham cuts trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4

Chatham Financial, a firm built on capital markets expertise, says it is using Codex and GPT-5.6 to build its own technology and redesign how work gets done. The clearest result is trade validation: a step that used to take about 30 minutes now takes under four.

What stands out is that this isn't just one faster step. The workflow itself was rebuilt, with the team's expertise built into the technology. Trade validation is classic routine work, with lots of cross-checks where people spend time hunting for mismatches rather than making decisions. When AI takes that over, specialists can focus on exceptions, and the time per operation drops several times over.

Walk through your own processes: where does someone spend half an hour reconciling data across systems — invoices against contracts, payments against bank statements, orders against stock? That kind of reconciliation can be handed to an agent: 1Cifer compares documents and periods across 1C, CRM and bank data and flags mismatches itself, leaving the decision to a person. Time the operation before and after, so the effect shows up in minutes.