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I used to think “AI in finance ops” meant prettier dashboards and a chatbot that apologized a lot. Then one quarter-end close, a small AI agent caught a duplicate vendor payment before it left the building—while I was busy arguing with a spreadsheet about commas. That moment didn’t feel futuristic. It felt… embarrassingly practical. This post is my field-notes version of how AI transformed finance operations: the real results, the infrastructure it quietly demands, and the governance you can’t duct-tape on later. From “AI pilot” to real close-week relief My quarter-end close story: the tiny automation that stopped a duplicate payment During one quarter-end close, we were moving fast and tired. In AP, two invoices looked “different enough” to slip through: one came from email, one came from the vendor portal. Same vendor, same amount, same date range—just a slig...