OpenAI’s CFO on the power of getting personal

WALL STREET JOURNAL

I’ll give you an example. Every CFO has to deal with something called the flux. You get your actual financial data in, and then you look at what you expected. You compare across the two, across hundreds of line items.

Someone’s job, usually junior accountants, is to look for where there’s a bigger deviation than expected. And then they go off and they call people and say, “Why is performance marketing up 300%? Is it a mistake? If it’s real, what’s happening?”

On my team, we now have an AI agent that does that whole flux for us. It trawls through and says, here’s all the things that look a little out of the norm. It goes back into Slack and into our Google Docs and so on, and it will say, “Oh, looks like there was a meeting about performance marketing where we decided to go bigger in this country and that’s why it’s up 300%. So this looks reasonable.”

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