From Closed Source to Community Driven: The ChatFin Open Source Roadmap
Our vision for ChatFin-Labs and inviting developers to contribute to the future of autonomous finance protocols.
ChatFin Labs was founded with a single mission: to accelerate AI adoption for finance. We recognized early on that while the AI models were advancing rapidly, the infrastructure to connect them safely to financial systems was lagging behind.
That is why we are shifting our strategy from building proprietary connectors to fostering a community-driven ecosystem. We believe that the foundational protocols for autonomous finance should be open, transparent, and collaborative.
The Problem with Proprietary Silos
In the current fintech landscape, every vendor builds their own black-box integration for NetSuite, SAP, or Sage. This results in redundancy, security opacity, and vendor lock-in. A developer building a custom agent for a CFO shouldn't have to reverse-engineer a proprietary API.
By open-sourcing our core components, we are breaking down these silos. We want to create a world where an AI agent can move seamlessly between data sources using standardized protocols.
Phase 1: The Foundation
We have started this journey by releasing two critical pieces of infrastructure: netsuite-mcp and javascript-vm. The former solves the data access problem, while the latter solves the secure execution problem.
These aren't just code dumps; they are active projects that we use in our own production environment. By sharing them, we are setting a quality standard for what financial AI infrastructure should look like.
Phase 2: Standardization
The next step in our roadmap is standardization. We are working on defining open schemas for common financial objects—invoices, purchase orders, journal entries—that are optimized for LLM consumption.
Imagine a future where an AI doesn't need to know the specific column names of a NetSuite table but can instead reason about an "Invoice" object that follows a universal industry standard. That is the future we are building.
An Invitation to Contribute
We cannot build this alone. We are inviting developers, financial engineers, and security researchers to join ChatFin Labs. Whether you are fixing a bug in our VM or proposing a new connector for Xero, your contribution matters.
Open source thrives on diversity of thought. We need the perspectives of those who have battled with legacy ERPs and those who are dreaming up the next generation of autonomous agents.
Conclusion
The transition from closed source to community-driven is not just a technical roadmap; it is a cultural shift. It is a commitment to transparency, security, and shared progress.
We are just getting started. Come build the operating system for autonomous finance with us.
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