Ask three vendors what it costs to build an AI agent. You will get three wildly different answers. One says $10,000. One says $500,000. One sends you a 40-page proposal that somehow never answers the question. AI agent cost is…
When comparing AI consulting vs AI dev shop options, most buyers do not know which one they actually need. They know they want AI. They just do not know whether to hire a consultant, a development shop, or some combination…
Knowing how to scope AI projects properly is the difference between a system that reaches production and one that gets abandoned halfway through. I have been in a lot of post-mortem meetings on failed AI projects. Not our projects. Projects…
Why your AI pilot failed usually has less to do with the model than teams think. Most AI pilots do not fail in month four. They fail in week one. They fail when the problem is still fuzzy but everyone…
Before we take on any new AI project at AI Dev Lab, we run every prospective client through the same set of questions. Not to qualify them out. To protect them from spending money on a build their organization is…
Hidden costs of AI projects are usually not the line items in the initial proposal. Not because every vendor is trying to mislead you. Some are. Most are not. The bigger problem is that the number in the proposal usually…
Finance leaders are supposed to know how to measure return on investment. But when it comes to AI ROI for finance, a lot of smart teams still get fuzzy fast. They know AI can help. They know it can improve…
I serve as Chief AI Officer at NOW CFO, one of the largest fractional CFO networks in the United States. Not as an outside advisor giving presentations, but inside the business, accountable for what gets built, what gets adopted, and…
AI for accounting teams is real. The problem is that the market makes it hard to tell where it is genuinely useful and where the claims are running ahead of reality. Every accounting software company now talks about AI. Every…
How AI is changing the CFO role is not mainly a story about replacement. It is a story about shifting finance from historical reporting toward real-time visibility, stronger forecasting, better operational insight, and faster decision support. That shift is already…