The hybrid model: why the smartest finance teams aren’t going all-in on AI
Every finance vendor with a pulse has slapped “AI-powered” on their homepage in the last 18 months. Most of them are exaggerating, not maliciously, but loosely. They’re calling forecasting “modeling,” trend extension “intelligence,” and pattern matching “reasoning.” The terms get blurred on purpose because the blur sells.
Here’s the cleaner version of the truth: AI is genuinely transforming finance work right now. It is not, however, building your financial model. And the gap between those two statements is where most companies are about to lose a lot of money.
The bait-and-switch in plain english
A financial model is not a spreadsheet full of numbers. It’s a structured argument about how a business actually works, what drives revenue, which costs are fixed versus variable, how hiring decisions ripple into cash flow six months later, and what happens to the runway if pricing slips three percent....
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