Your finance team is drowning in spreadsheets while everyone talks about AI transformation.
But here's what they're not telling you: even the biggest companies are failing at this.
Capgemini just p
Your finance team is drowning in spreadsheets while everyone talks about AI transformation.
But here's what they're not telling you: even the biggest companies are failing at this.
Capgemini just published research on AI in finance. Buried inside was something refreshing — they admit that "enterprise-wide AI literacy" is the real bottleneck. Not the technology. Not the budget. The people who have to actually use it every day.
Sound familiar? That $200/month tool nobody touches isn't a tech failure. It's a people failure that was completely predictable.
Here's the shift that changes everything: the CFOs winning with AI didn't start with the fanciest tool. They started with one boring, repetitive financial task — expense categorisation, invoice matching, monthly reporting prep — and automated just that. One task. Measurable time saved. Team actually uses it.
That's your entry point too.
Pick the one financial task your team complains about most. That's your first AI project. Nothing else. No overhaul, no consultant, no six-month rollout.
Just one problem. One solution. Proof it works.
What's the most time-wasting finance task in your business right now — and has anyone tried (and failed) to fix it with software before?
