Generating Analyses with Claude, the NetSuite AI Connector, and SuiteReports

Published on August 19, 2025.

After releasing SuiteReports yesterday, a few people have asked me: "How does using Claude with the NetSuite AI Connector compare to the analyses you had been creating with SuiteAnalyzer?"

To show what it looks like in practice, I asked Claude to generate a professional-quality financial analysis. I told it where to find the latest reports — saved daily by SuiteReports into the NetSuite File Cabinet — and prompted it to: “Deliver a professional-quality report that summarizes the overall financial health of the business, identifies actionable insights, and highlights areas for improvement.” (See below for the full prompt. It's interesting!)

Here's a video showing the entire chat.

The report Claude produced was exactly what I asked for: professional, detailed, and full of insight.

And of course, the conversation didn’t have to stop there. I could have kept chatting with Claude about the report — asking follow-up questions, requesting design changes, or even having it save the final report right back to the File Cabinet.

The key to making this work:
SuiteReports is enabled: Every day, the key financial reports are run automatically and saved to the File Cabinet.
• The File Cabinet Custom Tool is installed: This allows Claude to access those reports directly through the AI Connector.

This is what NetSuite AI looks like in action: seamless, insightful, and immediately useful.

Full Prompt:

You are a world-class strategy consultant with deep expertise in financial analysis and executive reporting.

Our company is a furniture retailer. Our latest financial reports - including our Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Income Statement, Trial Balance, Accounts Payable Aging Summary, and Accounts Receivable Again Summary - can be found in our File Cabinet, in a folder named "SuiteReports."

Please analyze the reports, and deliver a professional-quality report that summarizes the overall financial health of the business, identifies actionable insights, and highlights areas for improvement.

When creating your report, please include these sections (if applicable):

1. Executive Summary:

Begin with a concise, high-level overview of the company’s financial health, suitable for presentation to executives or board members.

2. Profitability Analysis:

Evaluate key metrics such as revenue, gross profit, operating profit, and net income. Analyze margins and profitability trends over time.

3. Liquidity Assessment:

Assess the company’s ability to meet short-term obligations (e.g., current ratio, quick ratio) and comment on working capital health.

4. Solvency & Leverage:

Examine long-term financial stability using ratios such as debt-to-equity, interest coverage, and total liabilities to assets.

5. Operational Efficiency:

Analyze operational ratios like inventory turnover, receivables turnover, payables turnover, and asset utilization. Comment on operational strengths or bottlenecks.

6. Cash Flow Analysis:

If data is available, provide commentary on cash position and flows from operating, investing, and financing activities.

7. Trends & Benchmarking:

Highlight notable trends compared to prior periods and, if possible, reference relevant industry benchmarks.

8. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Risks (SWOT):

Summarize financial strengths and weaknesses, note any material risks or red flags, and identify significant opportunities.

9. Actionable Recommendations:

Provide clear, specific, and actionable recommendations for improving financial performance, operational efficiency, or risk management.

10. Additional Commentary:

Include any other relevant observations or guidance based on the data provided.

11. Suggested Follow-Ups:

Conclude with targeted follow-up questions or suggested areas for further investigation.

Formatting & Output Requirements:

• Present your findings in a clear, well-organized, and highly professional manner.

• Return your response as HTML and CSS only (do not include explanations or non-HTML output).

• Use only valid HTML tags and utilize Bootstrap for layout and styling.

• For any charts or graphs, use the Chart.js JavaScript library.

Use summary tables for key financial figures where helpful.

Special Instructions:

• If any data is missing or incomplete, clearly state any assumptions you make in your analysis.

• If the information provided is insufficient for a complete analysis, note what is missing and offer suggestions for additional data or reports that would improve your assessment.

Tone:

Your report should be insightful, objective, and actionable, as if advising a company’s executive leadership.
About Me

Hello, I'm Tim Dietrich. I develop custom software for businesses that are running on NetSuite, including mobile apps, Web portals, Web APIs, and more.

I'm the developer of several popular NetSuite open source solutions, including the SuiteQL Query Tool, SuiteAPI, and more.

I founded SuiteStep, a NetSuite development studio, to provide custom software and AI solutions - and continue pushing the boundaries of what's possible on the NetSuite platform.

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