Paul BarnhurstFP&A Expert Empowering Finance Professionals to Excel Everday

The future belongs to AI orchestrators.

4 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker argues that AI orchestration is becoming essential for project finance workflows. They reference a discussion in the MEWC chat where a 40‑sub‑agent team has been built to handle end‑to‑end financial model construction and review. The speaker contrasts this with the previous ModSquad approach, where users would ask Copilot to "build me a free statement model" for an FMI case, noting that only a tiny fraction (around 0.1%) of finance team members actually engage in deep modeling, with most using Copilot for Outlook, Teams, etc. Given the limited adoption of serious modeling, the speaker advocates for scaling up to a 100‑team sub‑agent harness to better serve the niche of intensive modelers.

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Thing is, somebody in the MEWC chat that's been talking about in project finance, they've built a 40-sub-agent team that does all this incredible model build and review work. And I feel very strongly with my limited understanding of this, that there isn't a halfway house now. What we were doing last year with ModSquad was you take a case like an FMI case and you go into Copilot and you say, build me a free statement model. And for 95% of people using Copilot in a finance team, I don't think you're doing that. You're using it with Outlook and Teams and all that great stuff. Maybe it's like 0.1%, I don't know, a very small percentage of people that are really serious about modeling. Why would you not have a 100-team sub-agent harness?