# Brodie Marshall

> Brodie Marshall is a New York-based founding engineer at Monk whose route into software began with finance and economics, accounts-receivable audits, and self-taught game projects. At Monk, he works on AI-assisted contract-to-cash systems, including payment reconciliation, contract extraction, evaluation infrastructure, and cash application designed to keep financial decisions explainable and auditable.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at Monk
- **Organizations:** Monk, Northeastern University
- **Education:** Finance and economics studies; economics minor; graduated magna cum laude, Northeastern University
- **Known for:** Graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University., Transitioned from three years in finance to a software-engineering career., Built a learning copilot used by students at leading universities.

## Career timeline

- **2015-2019** — Studied at Northeastern University, with finance and economics in his academic background and an economics minor; graduated magna cum laude.
- **Early career** — Worked in finance and audited accounts receivable across multiple companies.
- **Before 2025** — Moved into software engineering after teaching himself to code through game projects; accumulated five years of engineering experience and built a learning copilot used by students at leading universities.
- **2025-11** — Joined Monk in New York as a founding engineer, initially working on the payment-matching module.
- **2026-01** — Published Monk's engineering explanation of how evaluation datasets and human feedback support its payment-reconciliation engine.
- **2026-06** — Helped present Monk's near-real-time contract-to-invoice processing and its three-tier cash-application architecture.

## Achievements

- Graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University.
- Transitioned from three years in finance to a software-engineering career.
- Built a learning copilot used by students at leading universities.
- Shipped 15 pull requests in his first nine days at Monk, according to co-founder George Kurdin.
- Contributed to Monk's payment-reconciliation, evaluation, contract-extraction, and cash-application systems.
- Helped build a cash-application workflow that Monk reported at roughly an 80% match rate in June 2026, with an audit trail for each match.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Discussed the design of Monk's Cash Application 2.0, including deterministic matching, customer rules, an AI agent, lockbox and check capture, and auditable reasoning.
- **2026-06** — Appeared in a product walkthrough explaining Monk's near-real-time contract extraction and invoice-generation workflow.
- **2026-04** — Shared Monk's announcement of a $25 million Series A co-led by Footwork and Acrew, with continued support from Better Tomorrow Ventures.
- **2026-01** — Published an engineering article describing Monk's evaluation and human-feedback loop for AI-assisted payment reconciliation.

## Links

- Website: https://monk.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brodie-marshall-712aa2143

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Last updated: 2026-09-27