AI agents will replace hiring in finance teams, not just automate software. When companies stop hiring accountants, payroll specialists, and FP&A analysts because agents handle revenue accounting, billing, and strategic finance, that's when you know the technology has truly arrived.
The harder part of agents is what I call the more intimate workflows, like replacing what someone like a revenue accountant or an FP&A lead or a strategic finance lead does. That I think is going to take a little bit longer, but that is also an area where agents are going to fully take over. And so my threshold for agent is less about is it eating into ERP spend or software spend or services spend. That to me is AI automation. Like if you're displacing modules and services from your ERP vendor or your third-party admin, like that is like automation. But if you're you're starting to look at your finance team of 15 people and you're saying, look, I don't actually need to hire 2 more people in billing or in payroll or in revenue accounting or FP&A, that's where I use the A word, like where the agents have arrived.
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