Focus on one, two, and three before you get excited about four. The flash factor of new tools matters a lot less than the core data and applications you're already using.
Sowmya Ranganathan
Controller at Rippling
How to build a full AI-first finance tech stack
Watch Sowmya Ranganathan, OpenAI's former controller and founder of Lumera, lay out the exact finance tech stack she'd build today—with AI at every layer, from ERP to agentic automation.
Most finance teams are bolting AI onto whatever stack they already have. That works for chatbots. It doesn't work for the kind of close-by-day-one, real-time-dashboard finance function the next decade of accounting actually needs. The order you build matters more than the shiny tool you start with.
In this on-demand session, Sowmya Ranganathan — founder of Lumera and former controller at OpenAI and Rippling — lays out the exact four-layer finance tech stack she'd build today, plus live demos of ChatGPT analyzing expense data and writing working SQL queries against Stripe data.
Whether you're rebuilding your stack from scratch or trying to bolt AI onto what you have, this session gives you the order of operations from someone who's actually done it at scale.
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