The Defensibility Problem: Why Most Finance AI Fails the Audit Test

  • Kaushik Venkatraman
  • July 14, 2026
  • 9 min read

The Problem Nobody Talks About  Today, new finance AI tools are launching faster than most teams can evaluate them.  Yet adoption among enterprise finance teams, especially for anything that touches the month-end close, remains cautious. Sometimes even resistant.  I’m Kaushik, co-founder and CPO at Consark. A significant part of my role sits in pre-sales conversations with finance teams evaluating […]

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