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Finance leaders are debating whether to build AI tools in-house or buy ready-made solutions, but the binary is a mistake. A better approach is to split the stack: buy the substrate (infrastructure lik…

A July 2026 analysis of 105 finance job postings reveals a gap between CFOs' stated preference for embedded AI from existing vendors and actual hiring for custom-built AI agents, with 70% of corporate…