Paul BarnhurstFP&A Expert Empowering Finance Professionals to Excel Everday

AI isn’t slow; your workflow is.

23 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise commentary, the speaker highlights how contemporary AI models can automatically detect and correct allocation problems, delivering substantial efficiency improvements. He claims that, when used properly, AI can boost personal productivity by 15‑20 times, citing a personal example where a task that previously required a $20,000 consultant and a month‑and‑a‑half was completed in a single day using AI tools, including Excel. He urges listeners who are not seeing such gains to research AI techniques and adopt better practices.

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I see the advantage of the power and the models today. They can make amazing corrections now. You can have allocation issues and it will not only find the allocation issues now, it will correct the allocation issues. And that's super impressive. By the way, it does save— if you're using AI correctly, my best guess on my own productivity efficiency is 15 to 20x improvement in terms of how quickly I do things now. I just did a project in my last company. It took about a month and a half and we paid a consultant $20,000 to do it. I did it in a day. I'm getting that efficiency gain and And I definitely see that in Excel as well. So if you're not getting 15 to 20x, you should start doing some more research and reading and figuring out like, what are the techniques I could be doing to get that?