Writing practice for finance professionals.
Writing the investment memo yourself is where the position gets pressure-tested; editing the AI's draft is where the soft spots stay hidden.
Is writing practice useful for finance professionals?
For analysts, the shift is that the IC memo or the deal note now starts as an AI draft you tidy up. The trouble is that drafting from a blank page is itself the analysis, the act where you discover your case is weaker than your model implied because you cannot make the sentence true. When you only edit, you inherit the AI's confidence and skip the discovery. Commentary on AI writing and motivation notes that outsourcing the draft outsources the thinking that comes with it.
A writing rep, for finance professionals
A Set asks you to state a recommendation in three tight sentences under a constraint, no hedging, no qualifiers. You write 'We should size this at 3% because the downside is capped by the asset value.' Then you cannot quite finish the 'because.' That stall is the memo doing its job: it just told you the thesis has a hole, the way a finished AI draft never would.
What writing practice covers in Senwitt
- Concise drafting
- Rewriting
- Tone and clarity
- Structure
- Editing under constraint
See the full Writing Skill page for the deeper breakdown.
How the habit fits a finance professionals day
A writing Set fits an after-work wind-down, an active alternative to passive scrolling that takes seven minutes. Drafting one tight statement a day keeps the from-scratch reflex warm for the days you actually have to write the committee memo yourself.
Questions finance professionals ask
- I edit AI drafts well. Isn't that the same skill? Editing and drafting are different cognitive acts. Editing improves what exists; drafting forces you to build the argument and find where it does not hold. In finance, that building is where the thesis gets tested. A daily rep keeps the drafting act in use, not just the polishing one.
- Does Senwitt write or grade financial memos? No. The reps are general writing constraints, concise drafting, rewriting, structure, not memo templates or finance-specific grading. The aim is to keep your own drafting muscle in regular use. How you apply it to an IC note or a deal memo is your craft, not ours.
- Will daily writing reps improve my work writing? We will not claim that. We claim only the practice: a short daily rep at writing from a blank page under constraint. Whether it carries into your memos depends on you. The honest promise is that the muscle stays in use rather than fading while AI drafts for you.
Related Senwitt pages
Sources
- 1.How ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for themselves — The Conversation, 2023.
- 2.Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt (preprint) — arXiv, 2025.
Not brain training. Brain exercise.
Senwitt is a daily brain exercise app, not a brain training program. We do not claim to improve general cognition, prevent cognitive decline, or treat any condition. Independent scientific consensus — the 2014 Stanford Center on Longevity / Max Planck Institute statement signed by 70 neuroscientists, the 2016 Simons et al. review in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, and the FTC's 2016 settlement with Lumos Labs — has concluded that “brain training” claims are not supported by the evidence. Senwitt is built on a different premise: skills you actively practice get sharper; skills you stop practicing fade.