AI Can Now Handle Your Finances. Before Your Agents Touch Company Money, Answer These 3 Questions

Many of the startups running agentic finance systems haven’t set up anything to govern them.

BY HILLARY REMY, FREELANCE WRITER

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Most founders did not sit down one day and decide to give an AI agent control over company finances. It happened gradually. The agent handled something routine, nobody had a reason to pull it back, and its reach kept widening. By the time it was booking vendors, approving payments, and moving money internationally, the question of who was actually supervising it had never been asked.

That is not a future scenario. It is where agentic finance already is, and many of the startups running these systems have not set up anything to govern them. The cost of getting that wrong is not theoretical: a 2025 Infosys........

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