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Buying an agent from every system of record recreates SaaS sprawl one layer up. How CIOs should choose, and which controls must stay central.
AI-generated fake receipts now beat visual review. How expense fraud changed, which detection still works, and the controls to use by company size.
Agents act through integrations. iPaaS and API vendors hold the connectors, credentials and audit trails, and MCP makes governing that layer worth more.
Every AI feature copies company data into prompts, logs, embeddings and memory. Where each copy lives, what vendors retain, and how to make deletion real.
AI is taking the bottleneck work out of the month-end close. The close becomes continuous with a short sign-off, and finance, audit and the board change.
Most tasks run better on one well-tooled agent. Multi-agent systems pay off only for parallel work, isolated context or independent checks.
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