Finance teams don’t struggle with AI because their data isn’t “AI-ready.” They struggle because communication with AI is unfamiliar and imprecise. When AI interprets questions differently than intended, trust breaks down. Sapien addresses this by making assumptions explicit, allowing users to correct misunderstandings in plain language, and retaining company-specific context over time.

Most CFOs aren’t avoiding AI because it lacks capability. What stops adoption is expectations. Finance teams are judging AI using frameworks built for traditional enterprise software. But AI is not meant to quietly automate. Its real value is collapsing weeks of analysis into hours, making questions that used to be too expensive in time suddenly worth asking.

This funding from top investors in AI and finance will support larger-scale research efforts to build the AI that helps humans run companies.