There are moments in tech that feel like fog giving way to landscape.
March 2025 was one of those moments.
If you’re paying attention, you felt it.
Autonomous agents.
Emotional AI.
Visual storytelling.
Massive memory context windows.
Invisible assistants that don’t just suggest answers. They complete tasks.
End-to-end. On autopilot.
Everything you thought was 5 years away is knocking at your office door now.
But most CFOs won’t open it. They’ll wait. Watch. Default to skepticism.
Read another whitepaper. Delay another quarter.
And in doing so, they’ll slowly become irrelevant.
The breakthroughs of March weren’t just model upgrades. They were paradigm shifts. Shifts that make legacy finance practices look like a typewriter in a room full of neural nets. And they point to a bigger truth:
The only way to hit 10-year goals in 10 months… is to stop thinking like a 10-year plan and start thinking like an AI-native operator.
This isn’t automation. This is acceleration.
Here’s what happened and why it matters more than you think: