The first real finance AI employee is here
CFOs have waited 40 years for this moment.
For 40 years, finance was promised automation.
ERP made finance compliant.
Spreadsheets made finance flexible.
FP&A tools made finance predictive.
But none of them changed the hardest part of the job.
Being a CFOTech VC I talk to a lot of founders and they all think CFOs want a better calculator and a reporting tool + some AI as a chatbot.
But that’s a lie they won’t admit because of their traditional mindsets.
CFOs want confidence to drive performance and grow revenue.
The CFO wants to make better decisions under pressure.
Yet, every real finance decision lives in the same uncomfortable place:
Political risk.
Time pressure.
Incomplete data.
Competing incentives.
Finance doesn’t break when models fail.
Finance breaks when you become the bottleneck.
That’s the problem you’ll see getting solved today.
CFOs want an AI that can take over all the manual work.
Hold context across systems.
Execute multi-step workflows.
Understand intent across stakeholders.
Form a recommendation, not just an output.
No. AI as a chatbot is not a miracle
AI helping finance think is great but it’s not awesome.
What would be awesome is AI taking responsibility for work and doing the work.
(Pun intended) But now it’s possible… AI just went from being a tool to being an employee.
Let’s dive in.
Imagine AI Doing The CFO Work
Imagine you’re the CFO of a $120M ARR. company with roughly $900M valuation from the last round. Burn is acceptable until it isn’t.
It’s Monday morning. You open your laptop before you’ve even finished your coffee because you already know what’s waiting:
