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The AI worked out which of his investment gains had to be given to charity under Shariah rules

He has invested for five years in big index funds, but as a Muslim he must purify any gains from companies that are not Shariah compliant by giving that money to charity. Companies move in and out of compliance every quarter, across more than 20 quarters of his holdings with gains feeding later gains. Four hours of work with Cowork and about $150 of tokens produced the full model and his answer.

How it works

  1. Set the compliant fund as the benchmark
  2. Map his gains quarter by quarter
  3. Trace gains from non compliant companies into later holdings
  4. Cowork builds the full model in about four hours
  5. He gets the amount to purify

Why it’s worth knowing

The chain is the hard part: a bad gain in one quarter taints what it later bought, and no spreadsheet he owns could follow it.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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