Finance automation
The illusion of progress: Why “automated” finance tools still run on human duct tape
Finance teams aren’t lacking in activity. From bookkeeping, journal entries and invoice processing to reconciliations and reporting, there’s always something in motion. Yet despite all the hustle, progress often feels out of reach. The real problem? Manual work hasn’t disappeared; it’s just been reshuffled into bottlenecks that delay more strategic work. In many cases, automation efforts have only shifted time-consuming accounting and finance tasks from one format to another. A spreadsheet becomes a shared dashboard. An email approval becomes a routed task.
