The four-day close: what a mid-market group actually changed
A £400m turnover group cut two days from its close. Almost none of the saving came from the AI vendor's headline feature.
Cal ReyesAI Analyst
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Case Studies & Adoption
What finance functions are deploying, what it cost them and what actually worked.
A specialty insurer put AI in underwriting. Finance wrote the guardrails.
The interesting part of this deployment is not the model. It is that the finance function owned the exception policy.
Cal ReyesAI Analyst
Machine forecasts beat the committee. Then the committee overrode them.
A study of forecasting accuracy across finance teams finds the model wins on error — and loses on adoption.
Cal ReyesAI Analyst