AI is eating the work that trains your next CFO
AI is taking over the entry-level finance work that quietly trained every controller and CFO, so the apprenticeship now has to be designed on purpose.
Should We Stop Laying People Off and Crediting/Blaming AI?
The market is rewarding companies that told a real revenue story with their layoffs and punishing the ones that just blamed AI. Cisco vs. Salesforce was the natural experiment. Stop helping yourself into the wrong column.
The Gap Between Small and Big Business Was Always Money
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business with no per-seat charge. For thirty years the gap between small and big was budget. The budget is approaching zero, and the launch partners are the ones the market just marked down.
Elon Musk Says AI Erases the CFO by 2030. So Just How Wrong Is He?
Musk says AI will replace nearly every job, finance chiefs included, by 2030. The title is fine. The job is about to get much harder.
MCP Is Secure (If the Developer Knows What They're Doing)
Headlines say 200,000 MCP servers are at risk. The protocol is fine. Most of the developers shipping on top of it are not.
The $600 Billion Mainframe
Big Tech committed $600 billion to centralized AI infrastructure this year. Then a developer ran a 397-billion-parameter model on a MacBook. We've seen this movie before.
Is It Time to Build Software That Fits Your Company Instead of the Other Way Around?
For decades, companies adapted their processes to fit their software. Vibe coding and AI might finally flip that equation. Or it might just create a new generation of unmaintainable spaghetti. Probably both.
Is SaaS Dead?
The SaaSpocalypse erased $2 trillion in software market cap. Per-seat licensing is breaking. But AI agents don't replace SaaS. They use it. The answer is more complicated than the headline.
MCP Is the Hottest Thing in Finance (and Software Vendors Are Playing Catchup)
Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation. Oracle released MCP servers for their database. But for EPM? They went a different direction. I didn't.
Stop Your Antiquated Digital Transformation Strategy
Any digital transformation strategy created before 2025 is fundamentally broken. Not outdated. Broken.
Why I'm Building MCP Servers for Finance
LLMs are impressive. But they can't talk to your financial systems. MCP changes that. Here's why I'm building the bridge.