Finance AI Pulse

Curated news, insights & thought leadership across all finance functions. 50 articles and counting.

• Jacob Martin CPA: 7 Practical AI Use Cases for Accountants Today — Jacob Martin, CPA
• Gartner: CFOs Who Deploy AI Strategically Will Add 10 Margin Points by 2029 — Gartner
• Kyle Geers, CPA: Claude for Technical US GAAP Review — Convertible Preferred Stock, Honest Assessment — Kyle Geers
• SAP Autonomous Enterprise: 50+ AI Assistants — Financial Close From Weeks to Days
• Fuel Launches MCP: Claude Gets Live Access to FP&A Data — 350+ Integrations, Real-Time Queries — Alyona Mysko
• Zapier: 8 People Run Entire Accounting Function — 7 Named AI/Automation Workflows — Ryan Roccon
• Fuel Finance Launches MCP Integration — Claude Now Queries Live FP&A Data — Alyona Mysko
• Eight People Run Accounting at Zapier — With Dozens of AI Automations — Ryan Roccon
• Microsoft D365 Business Central Ships Native AI Payables Agent — Line Matching + Duplicate Prevention
• ReconPe: Two Ways Our Reconciliation AI Broke Silently — And Why We Stopped Measuring Accuracy — Amit
• KPMG: AI Use in Finance Doubles to 75% — But Only 42% "Assurance-Ready" (3-6x Better Results) — KPMG International
• Wouter Born: Finance as a Closed Loop — AI Doesn't Improve If You Don't Close the Feedback Loop — Wouter Born
• Embat €30M Series B: AI Treasury Analyst TellMe Now Serving 400+ European Corporates — Financial IT
• AWS Launches AgentCore Payments: AI Agents Can Now Pay for APIs and Services Autonomously — AWS
• Jason Staats CPA: 5 Crowd-Sourced AI Use Cases from Real Accounting Firms (Live Workshop Tour) — Jason Staats, CPA
• OnlyCFO: Shaved 1 Day Off an Already-Fast Month-End Close With AI Agents — Here's How — OnlyCFO
• JoshJefferd: Full Anatomy of an AI Morning Briefing Agent for Accounting Firms — Josh Jefferd
• IBM Think 2026: "Agent Sprawl Is Now a CFO Problem" — Blueprint for Governing AI Agent Fleets
• Practitioner: 90% Invoice Processing Automated — 12 Hours/Week to 45 Minutes Using Gemini
• Gartner: Embedded AI in Cloud ERP Will Drive 30% Faster Financial Close by 2028 — Gartner
• James O'Dowd: Big Firm Layoffs Aren't AI Adoption — They're Cutting the Talent Pipeline — James O'Dowd
• Mary Olurin: Billing Compliance Docs → Interactive RPG Training Game with Claude — Mary Olurin
• Natalia Kudinova: Month-End Close "Control Tower" Built with Claude Code — Natalia Kudinova
• OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar Fighting CEO Over AI Spending — Governance Lessons for Every CFO — Wouter Born
• Grant Thornton Launches gtap — AI-Enabled Cloud Audit Infrastructure Platform — Pulse 2.0
• Daylit AI Agents for AR: 3x Collections, 75% Cost Reduction, 16% AR Improvement in 30 Days — Yahoo Finance
• Goldman Sachs Deploys Claude for Transaction Reconciliation, Trade Accounting & Compliance — PYMNTS
• CFO Connect State of AI in Finance 2026: Adoption Doubled to 56%, But 68% of CFOs Don't Know Where to Start — CFO Connect
• 25-Use-Case AI Guide for Treasury & Cash Management — Bank Portals, 13-Week Forecast, Covenant Ratio Extraction — Bojan Radojicic
• KPMG Ignite Financial Close Companion — Month-End Close AI Agent Built on Workday + Google Gemini — KPMG US
• Arden: SOX Control Testing in Minutes — Evidence to PCAOB-Ready Workpapers Across 20+ Systems — Arden Tech
• JoshJefferd: Daily AI Briefing for Accounting Firm Partners — Know Your Firm Before Opening Outlook — Josh Jefferd
• India CBDT Deploys AI to Recover $30B in Tax Arrears — Targeting 10,000 High-Value Defaulters — NationPress
• Real Incident: AI Hallucinated Invoices Paid Automatically by Client's AP AI
• Houseblend: Named European CFOs Deploy AI — Logista, Ferrovial, Aena, BBVA — Houseblend
• Accountex: Finance Teams Already Running Claude MCP Agents for Autonomous Reporting — Alexis Dougherty
• FOR:LEDGER: AI Governance Checklist for Finance Ops — "Never the Final Signer" — FOR:LEDGER
• FIS + Anthropic: AI Agent for AML Investigations — BMO and Amalgamated Bank First Deployers — FIS Global
• JoshJefferd: 3 Things to Automate First in a Bookkeeping Firm — 14-20 Hours/Week Recovered — Josh Jefferd
• Bain: 56% of CFOs Increasing AI Investment 15%+, But Only 31% Rate Finance AI Outcomes as Strongly Positive — Bain & Company
• JoA: CREW Network Consolidates 50-Entity GL in 4-5 Days With Enterprise ChatGPT — Journal of Accountancy
• Fazeshift Raises $17M Series A to Automate Full AR Cycle with AI Agents
• Wouter Born Tests Anthropic Finance Agents: 3-Statement Model Built in 5 Minutes with Full Integrity Checks — Wouter Born
• Alyona Mysko: Build vs. Buy FP&A — Claude Costs 2-3x More Than Buying for Mid-Market — Alyona Mysko
• Canada Revenue Agency Runs 19 AI Systems; GenAI Chatbot Handles 445,000 Tax Sessions — Canada Revenue Agency
• Genpact + Google Cloud Launch Agentic AI for the Office of the CFO via Agent Marketplace — Genpact / Google Cloud
• OpenAI Scales to 1,000+ Revenue Contracts/Month With One Added Employee Using AI Agent — OpenAI
• Karbon 2026: 98% of Accounting Firms Use AI Daily, But Only 21% Have a Policy — Karbon
• CohnReznick's 6-Step AI Pilot Framework for CAS Practices — Kane Polakoff & Michelle Voyer
• JPMorgan: $19.8B Tech Budget — AI Reclassified from R&D to Core Infrastructure