ARAWAI — Annual Report Analysis with AI — is a next-generation platform that applies large language models and financial modelling to transform complex annual reports into precise, actionable intelligence.
Annual reports are among the most information-dense documents in finance — running to hundreds of pages of financial statements, management commentary, risk disclosures, and governance data. Extracting meaningful insight from them is time-consuming, error-prone, and demands deep expertise.
ARAWAI changes this. By combining state-of-the-art large language models with rigorous financial frameworks — including DuPont decomposition, ratio analysis, and narrative sentiment assessment — ARAWAI delivers the depth of a seasoned analyst in a fraction of the time.
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Multi-model LLM processing with financial frameworks
Structured outputs: ratios, trends, risks, commentary
ARAWAI brings together financial expertise and AI into one seamless workflow, covering every dimension of corporate performance analysis.
Automatically breaks down return on equity into its constituent drivers — profitability, asset efficiency, and financial leverage — revealing the true sources of performance.
Liquidity, solvency, profitability, and efficiency ratios computed automatically from the financial statements, with peer-context commentary.
Applies NLP to management commentary, risk disclosures, and strategic statements — detecting tone shifts, confidence indicators, and emerging concerns.
Compare financial performance across multiple reporting periods to identify trajectory, momentum shifts, and structural changes in the business.
Flags financial red flags — rising leverage, deteriorating margins, liquidity stress, off-balance-sheet exposure — so nothing slips through the cracks.
Generates a structured analytical report with executive summary, financial tables, and interpretive commentary — ready for presentation or further research.
A three-step workflow that takes you from raw corporate disclosure to deep financial insight.
Provide the URL or upload the PDF of any publicly listed company's annual report. ARAWAI supports reports from major global exchanges.
The platform extracts, structures, and analyses the financial statements and narrative sections using advanced language models and financial frameworks.
Within minutes, receive a comprehensive analytical output covering ratios, trends, risks, and qualitative commentary — structured for decision-making.
Accelerate fundamental research across your coverage universe. Analyse a report in minutes, not hours.
Benchmark competitors, track industry trends, and support M&A diligence with structured comparative analysis.
Scale financial statement studies across large firm samples without manual data extraction or transcription.
Identify early warning signals and deteriorating credit metrics across your portfolio with consistent methodology.
Build financial analysis skills by seeing professional-grade breakdowns of real company reports, with explanations.
Perform rapid initial diagnostics on client financials before engaging in deeper qualitative work.
ARAWAI was developed by accounting and finance academics at Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London.
Director of the Centre for Financial Analysis and Reporting Research (CeFARR) and Research Director of the Faculty of Finance. Editor, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.
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Research interests include financial reporting, disclosure quality, and the intersection of accounting and capital markets. Member of Bayes Accounting Group.
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Specialist in empirical accounting research with a focus on financial reporting, auditing, and corporate governance. PhD from Lancaster University.
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Research interests span financial accounting, earnings quality, and the application of machine learning to accounting and finance problems.
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Doctoral researcher in the Accounting Group at Bayes Business School, exploring the intersection of financial reporting, AI, and corporate disclosure.
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