Intuit thinks it’s found your company’s next CFO: AI 

CTO Alex Balazs on turning financial software into a ‘system of intelligence,’ the limits of automation, and why trust remains the hardest problem.

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Alex Balazs has spent more than two decades inside Intuit, starting as an engineer working on early versions of QuickBooks Online, when moving financial workflows to the internet still felt experimental. Now, as CTO, he is helping lead a more radical shift: turning financial software into systems that can think and act on a user’s behalf. “This combines the speed and scale of AI with human judgment and accountability,” he tells Fast Company.

For decades, financial software has functioned as a........

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