Connected finance · Continuous intelligence
The Finaisse blog.
Ideas on where the finance function is headed: connected finance, continuous intelligence, and AI.
- Foundations·6 min read
What is Connected Finance?
Finance already operates as one continuous function. The software running it is fragmented across point solutions. Connected finance brings those operations, their data and their intelligence together — while working with the systems finance already relies on.
Read - Perspective·6 min read
The Hidden Cost of Finance Data Silos
A finance data silo isn't a broken system. It's a good one with a wall around it, right about its own slice and blind to everyone else's. The cost isn't the tools. It's the gaps between them.
Read - AI·6 min read
In Finance, AI Has to Show Its Work
AI can produce an answer in seconds. In finance, an answer on its own isn't enough. What a controller needs is the evidence underneath it — and enough of it to disagree.
Read - AI·7 min read
What Agentic AI Gets Wrong About Finance
Agentic AI is sold on autonomy: how much the software can do without you. In finance, the question that matters is who decides where the line sits, and whether you can see what passed under it.
Read - Perspective·6 min read
Why Is Month-End Close So Slow?
The last few days get the attention. Most of what slows them down was created weeks earlier — in reconciliations, journals, cut-off and the dependencies between them.
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Your Dashboard Is Downstream of the Problem
Most finance teams have good reporting. It still can't tell them how the month is going, because much of what determines the outcome hasn't posted yet.
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Materiality & Anomaly In Finance
Is this normal, and does it matter enough for someone to look? Every experienced finance person asks both, dozens of times a week. The problem was never that the questions go unasked. It is where the answers live: in someone's head, or on the item itself.
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