--- title: Manufacturing runs on capital. Finance protects the margin. description: Databricks promotes its Genie AI coworker as a solution for manufacturing finance teams struggling with trapped working capital. The post argues that an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/manufacturing-runs-on-capital-finance-protects-the-margin--l89um8bul twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Manufacturing runs on capital. Finance protects the margin. | daily.dev og:description: Databricks promotes its Genie AI coworker as a solution for manufacturing finance teams struggling with trapped working capital. The post argues that an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/manufacturing-runs-on-capital-finance-protects-the-margin--l89um8bul og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/l89UM8bUL.png og:image:alt: Manufacturing runs on capital. Finance protects the margin. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Manufacturing runs on capital. Finance protects the margin. **[databricks](https://daily.dev/sources/databricks)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Databricks promotes its Genie AI coworker as a solution for manufacturing finance teams struggling with trapped working capital. The post argues that an estimated $1.7T sits locked in excess working capital across large US companies, and that AI agents are reshaping how inventory, receivables, and capital allocation decisions are made. Genie is positioned as an ontology-driven AI tool that learns the business context continuously, provides governed and sourced answers to finance questions, and helps identify where cash is trapped in inventory, aging receivables, or underperforming assets — enabling finance teams to act with confidence rather than just report on historical data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How Capital Markets Finance Protects Balance Sheet Returns](https://daily.dev/posts/how-capital-markets-finance-protects-balance-sheet-returns-uw9welcx6) · databricks · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Energy runs on volatile markets. Finance protects the margin.](https://daily.dev/posts/energy-runs-on-volatile-markets-finance-protects-the-margin--fqhsldvku) · databricks · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Quality care is the mission. Finance protects the margin.](https://daily.dev/posts/quality-care-is-the-mission-finance-protects-the-margin--foznme7e6) · databricks · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#big-data](https://daily.dev/tags/big-data), [#manufacturing](https://daily.dev/tags/manufacturing), [#databricks](https://daily.dev/tags/databricks) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/manufacturing-runs-on-capital-finance-protects-the-margin--l89um8bul) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Manufacturing runs on capital. 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