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Good morning, friends. Gartner asked 183 CFOs about finance AI: 84% adopted it, 7% say it worked. The IRS is matching crypto returns against broker-filed 1099-DAs and sending CP2000 notices where cost basis is blank. Tax research AI at CPA firms nearly doubled in a year, and the billing question is starting to catch up.
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In This Morning's Issue
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84% of finance teams adopted AI. Only 7% got results.
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No. 01
| FINANCE AI
| Lead Story
84% of finance teams adopted AI. Only 7% got results.
A Gartner survey of 183 CFOs found that 84% of finance organizations have adopted AI. Only 7% report high impact. 63% said implementation moved slower than expected. Data quality, governance and the wrong starting use cases were the most common places it broke down.
The Signal — Most finance teams bought AI before fixing the infrastructure it runs on. AP automation pays back in 60 to 90 days. That is the right place to start. FP&A forecasting sits at just 12% production adoption because most teams don't have the underlying data in shape yet. On June 8, Gartner published a follow-up brief telling CFOs to measure AI by realized value, not deployment volume. What to watch: Watch for firms that change how they measure AI. Not deployment counts. Outcomes. That shift will separate the 7% from everyone else by year end.
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External links — the most worth-clicking AI items from around the web this week.
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Workflow of the Week
Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google DeepMind)
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash runs at 284 tokens per second and costs $1.50 per million input tokens. Fast enough for real-time document review. Cheap enough to run on batches. For accounting teams doing high-volume AP reviews or working through long regulatory filings, it is worth testing before defaulting to a pricier model.
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From the Archive
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