Let's talk about risk, baby - Capto Weekly #8

Inspired by the popular song lyrics that ultimately turned into a public service announcement (PSA) over 30 years ago -- let’s talk openly about an uncomfortable topic when it comes to AI -- especially for Finance departments.

One-on-one, leaders have a tendency to open up and be vulnerable with us about their challenges. We respect their privacy always but are still able to share some common trends.

So here’s the four RISK related categories that come up most in our candid talks on AI:

• Organization & Personal Career - am I helping to provide my company the edge it needs to compete? am I moving to slow? or not effective enough?

• Partners & Tools - am I guaranteed to see results and delivery? what’s the worst case of a bad engagement or adoption?

• Technical & Security - can I audit what’s happening? what’s in a black box? what will I own?

• Accuracy & Compliance - can I trust the AI agent’s results?

Are you already aware of these risks? Looking for advice on how to lower or eliminate them? 👇👇👇

Let’s talk about it.

(Risk, that is, not the other thing from the song)

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Capto

Company updates worth highlighting.

• One week in Sofia Bulgaria... 10+ Finance leaders... Here’s a preview of what they told us on the ground and in person. Also some takeaways from an event with other Bulgarian tech-leaders.

• Help us decide. What’s the most compelling “stage” of Capto’s offering?

• Agents of AI Episode 25 is a real hoot! The “Chief Future Owl“ shares their expert and high-powered vision for the CFO role (true to their avatar).

• Celebrating 5 years of being in business (early)! How have we evolved? Hint - it’s the subject of this week’s newsletter.

• Be better every day. That’s all we ask of ourselves. What we prioritized in the last week and how we’re helping CFOs move forward with AI.

• We’re the “Doctors of AI” (Clients words, not ours) Claude Cowork has Finance leaders catching the AI bug, we’re here to help avoid a viral infection.

• Another media feature for Alexis about Bansko and what we are seeing develop? Why not!?!? This time courtesy of AFP.

Spokes

A section dedicated to highlighting the work of our official allies.

• This week’s member highlight. Tuinstra Consultancy is a specialist in helping airports “take flight”!

• Have we collaborated before? Would you like to? Looking for a boost in visibility? We are continuing to build out this program and open to discuss adding members to our directory.

You

Doing our part in a community-based approach where our feeds, inboxes, and meetings are the source for learning and happiness.

• Arriving in the CIO section of the Wall Street Journal and noticeable in our own business, AI buying decisions are taking longer again. This feels like a “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...” type of moment for AI decision makers. h/t to Wayne Butterfield (a favorite to follow!) for his coverage as well.

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We deliver uniquely built AI Agents (aka, “AI employees”) for companies to own and build on their technological IP, that handle processes end-to-end across multiple systems, and are paired with a dedicated developer for evolution and maintenance.

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