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CFO's AI Action Plan

Imagine it’s 2035. Finance teams are gone.

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Mar 20, 2025
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Imagine it’s 2035. Finance teams are gone.

No accountants. No FP&A analysts. No controllers.

Just you and 10,000 AI agents running finance in real-time.

The books close themselves instantly. Cash flow is optimized before you even ask. Forecasts adjust automatically with live market data.

  • No more SaaS vendors.

  • No more vendor negotiations.

  • No more procurement headaches.

FP&A vendors pivot to selling “AI-optimized strategy consulting,” but no one buys because AI handles that too. Why pay for software when your AI agents build what you need on demand?

Need a new FP&A model? Agent-4821 designs it in seconds. Regulatory change? Agent-7734 updates compliance in real time. Board report? AI assembles the slides before you wake up. Finance runs itself.

  • No audits.

  • No errors.

  • No manual work.

But when every CFO has the same tools, the same perfect AI models…

What sets them apart?

  • Strategy.

  • Influence.

  • Judgment.

  • Relationships.

  • Real-world intuition AI can’t replicate.

In this edition of the CFOs AI Action Plan, I’ll go beyond theory to give you actionable insights, real-world examples, and frameworks from leading CFOs and companies.


Growth of AI and CFO Tech Stack

AI's capabilities are growing fast. For example:

  • AI models like Anthropic's systems are nearing the performance of top specialists in coding and mathematics.

  • Companies like Cursor have scaled to $100M in revenue faster than any software company before them, driven by AI-powered development tools.

The traditional CFO tech stack is siloed and inefficient

  • Core systems (ERP, CRM, billing) feed into integration layers (data warehousing, ETL tools).

  • Output layers (FP&A tools, dashboards) require manual intervention.

Agentic AI replaces this with a centralized "finance data warehouse" where autonomous agents handle processes like accounts payable/receivable, treasury management, and compliance.

  • Traditional Stack: Layered architecture requiring human intervention.

  • Agentic Stack: A unified system with autonomous agents managing end-to-end processes.

Only a small fraction of CFOs feel their teams are truly prepared to leverage AI.

Deloitte says, fewer than 20% of CFOs say their teams have a clear AI strategy, even though 42% plan to invest significantly in AI this year.

The CFO must stop working like a chief Accounting officer.

And start leading as chief value officer.


CFO’s AI Action Plan

AI can’t be plugged in overnight. It needs a plan.

Here’s how to integrate AI in finance.

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