Notes on the future of finance

The FRC's new AI guidance is written for audit firms, but it shows exactly what your auditor will ask about any software that touches your ledger. We turn its three risks and four mitigations into practical questions for your own finance stack, plus the four things worth having ready.

Model Context Protocol has quietly become the standard way for AI to interact with real business systems. For accounting, that changes what is possible, and it exposes exactly how far behind the incumbent platforms already are.

Most "AI agents" are just a model with a microphone. The thing that makes them safe, useful, and production-ready is the harness around them. Here's what that means for finance.

AI isn't shrinking finance teams, it's making them more ambitious. Why the headcount-savings pitch is the wrong way to sell AI in finance.

The next twenty-four months will reshape finance roles more than the previous twenty years. Handled well, this is one of the most exciting shifts the profession has seen. Handled badly, it produces a skills gap the industry will still be paying for in a decade.

Every founder discovers their non-negotiables under pressure. Here are ours, why we chose them, and how they show up in the software we're building.