Finance in AI-Native Companies Is a Control System, Not a Monthly Report
A lot of companies still run finance like it's 2012.
Budgets get locked once a quarter. Forecasts get refreshed once a month. Engineering ships an AI feature on Monday, and finance figures out what it did to cloud spend somewhere around the middle of the following month.
That arrangement holds up fine when the business moves slowly. It falls apart the moment machine learning systems start driving customer behavior, infrastructure usage, and revenue in real time.
The mistake I keep running into inside AI-heavy organizations is treating finance as a reporting function when it needs to be an operational one. The old tooling was built for slower environments. AI-native companies don't work that way. Costs move faster, product behavior shifts daily, and infrastructure usage can spike overnight without anyone touching a budget line.
A paper called "Next-Generation Financial Analytics Frameworks for AI-Enabled Enterprises" makes the same argument in more formal...
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