My Favorite LLM Use Case

I know of two local school districts in financial crisis right now.

Districts are complex organizations. Thousands of employees. Hundreds of funding sources, each with different rules. Multi-year commitments. And governance that runs through volunteer school boards — community members who took the job to serve, not to become accountants.

The data is there. It has been there — actuals, projections, variance reports, dashboards, scorecards. If anything, there are too many dashboards. A board member opens a packet with dozens of pages of numbers. One line goes up while another goes down. What does it mean? What am I missing?

Crises like these are often caused by compounding factors. For fire departments, weather on its own isn't a big deal. Problems arise when weather combines with equipment maintenance, excessive overtime, or scheduled PTO.

Dashboards show each factor. They rarely show the combinations — and that's where the real risk hides.

Too much data is a real problem.

This is my new favorite use case for LLMs. Take that "small data" from financial reports, dashboards, and scorecards and humanize the information so the average person can understand what everything means.

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