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Before I wrote a single line of code, I spent a year as an accounting trainee manually processing payments. Every expense meant creating a Word document, printing it, walking it to a manager for a signature, then to the MD for another, then writing a cheque, repeating the same approval chain, and finally handing everything to the bank person who had fixed timings to go to the bank. One payment. Two days. Dozens of steps.

At some point I thought: why can't we just build a website for this? No knowledge of tech, no idea what AI or GPT even was. Just a clear sense that this was broken and fixable. That question became a turning point. I spent the next year learning to code, got my first job, and since then I have built things like an Alexa-based voice platform and automation systems for senior healthcare, and a lot more in between.