The AI Illusion: What Finance Won’t Admit Out Loud

AI is flooding finance with promises of speed, precision, and automation — but the reality inside FP&A looks very different. This episode cuts through the hype and dives into the uncomfortable truth: AI doesn’t repair financial systems. It reveals them. When companies announce “AI-powered forecasting,” FP&A teams know what really happens next. The machine ingests legacy logic, inconsistent drivers, timing drift, and half-defined categories—and amplifies every flaw.

Executives celebrate innovation. Controllers still clean spreadsheets manually. FP&A becomes the buffer between expectation and reality.

This episode breaks down why AI struggles inside messy finance environments, what it exposes first, and how teams can prepare before the technology multiplies their blind spots. No buzzwords. No corporate spin. Just an honest look at AI’s impact on forecasting, logic structure, and the day-to-day work of FP&A.

If you’ve ever heard “AI will fix this” and felt a knot in your stomach, this is the episode that finally explains why.