TV ads make it sound simple: switch on AI, and your business runs itself. In reality, AI is brilliant at speeding up tasks. But it’s not a finance function. And if you let it operate without a human in the loop, it doesn’t remove risk — it often hides it. This matters most once you’ve got a team, more transactions, and more moving parts. Because the cost of being “slightly wrong” compounds. What AI is genuinely good at in finance AI and automation can reduce admin when the pr