Solution

Financial Statements Abstraction

For data and analytics teams at ratings agencies, banks, and research firms: statement line items mapped to one taxonomy at model-grade quality, across millions of pages.

Annual reportsBalance sheetsIncome statementsNotes to accounts
Millions of pages in 10+ languagesDays to a first working version5× faster financial spreading

The problem

Why this exists

2M pages

Reconciliation, not reading

The same economic line item appears under wildly different descriptions from bank to bank — and all of it must map to one taxonomy.

100+

Analysts tagging by hand

More than a hundred trained analysts spent their days mapping line items manually, on output that feeds live financial models.

Raw

Extraction is half the job

After extraction, values still need normalization and transformation before any downstream model can use them.

The product, not a promise

A statement you can interrogate

Financial Statements Abstraction — workspace
Annual reports loaded in bulk — every reporting format and style10+ languagescited
Tables and notes read by pre-trained statement modelsNotes includedcited
Line items mapped despite wide variation in wordingOne taxonomycited
Values normalized into the shape downstream models needModel-readycited
Ambiguous line-item mapping — routed to SME correctionverify
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How it works

File in. Answer out.

  1. 1

    Intake

    Annual reports load in bulk — every reporting format and style, 10+ languages.

  2. 2

    Understand

    Pre-trained table and financial statement models read the tables and the notes.

  3. 3

    Map

    Line items map to one custom taxonomy despite wide variation in wording.

  4. 4

    Normalize

    Values are normalized and transformed into the shape downstream models need.

  5. 5

    Improve

    The client's SMEs correct results point-and-click; accuracy climbs with every fix.

Who it's for

Built for the people who own the outcome

Financial data SME

You correct mappings; you stop keying them.

  • Ambiguous mappings arrive queued with the source line alongside
  • Corrections are point-and-click, and each one improves the models
  • Your expertise sets the standard the automation is measured against

Data & analytics lead

Two million pages on one taxonomy, at model-grade quality.

  • A first working version within days, from pre-trained statement models
  • Throughput 5× manual spreading, without quality slipping
  • Custom integrations feed the workflow you already run

Model risk / audit

No silent errors reach the models.

  • Every mapped value traceable to its source line in the original report
  • Corrections attributed to named experts, never anonymous retraining
  • Quality measured continuously rather than assumed
Ratings agenciesCommercial banksResearch firmsData providersAsset managers
Thousandsof bank annual reports
Millionsof pages in 10+ languages
Daysto a first working version
faster financial spreading

A large American financial services and rating agency had to process roughly 200,000 annual reports from banks — around 2 million pages, in more than 10 languages, across a spread of reporting formats and styles. The core difficulty was reconciling the pages, beyond merely reading them: the same economic line item appears under wildly different descriptions from bank to bank, and all of it had to map to a single taxonomy. After extraction, values still needed normalization and transformation before use. More than 100 trained analysts were doing this tagging manually, and quality could not slip, because the output feeds financial models the business depends on.

What Botminds built

Botminds started from its pre-trained table understanding and financial statement understanding models, which is why the first working version of the solution shipped within days rather than months. The platform reads the statements and the notes, maps line items to the client’s taxonomy despite the variation in wording, and applies the normalizations and transformations downstream systems expect.

Just as important, the client’s own subject matter experts were trained on the platform and used its point-and-click interfaces from day one to correct results — so accuracy improved continuously under the supervision of the people who know the data best. Custom upstream and downstream integrations tied the platform into the client’s existing workflow instead of forcing a new one.

Why governed matters

When extracted financials feed live models, a silent error propagates. Every mapped value stays traceable to its source line in the original report, corrections come from named experts rather than anonymous retraining, and quality is measured continuously rather than assumed. That is what makes machine-speed spreading — 5× faster than manual — safe to build a ratings business on.

Objections, answered

What teams ask us first

How can automated mapping be trusted when the output feeds live models?

Every mapped value stays traceable to its source line in the original report, ambiguous mappings route to expert review instead of guessing, and quality is measured continuously in production. A silent error propagates, so the design assumes verification rather than trust.

Our taxonomy and normalization rules are ours. Does the platform learn them?

Yes — line items map to your custom taxonomy despite the variation in wording between banks, and your normalizations and transformations apply before anything reaches downstream systems. The output lands in the exact shape your models already consume.

Who controls accuracy over time?

Your own subject matter experts. They correct results through point-and-click interfaces from day one, every correction is attributed to a named expert, and the models improve under the supervision of the people who know the data best.

How long until we see it working on our documents?

The solution starts from pre-trained table understanding and financial statement understanding models, which is why the first working version for this client shipped within days rather than months. Your documents and taxonomy tune it from there.

Bring annual reports from your hardest banks.

Watch line items map to your taxonomy — notes included, values normalized, every mapping traceable to the source line.

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