I Watched AI Burnout Finance Teams for a Year. Here’s What Finally Started Working

What is “workslop,” and are you already passing it downstream without knowing?

Why did 40% of workers get handed broken AI work in a single month, and could you already be one of them?

Why did 95% of enterprise AI pilots return nothing measurable?

Highlights of Episode

The same AI tool, in the same week, saved me a full afternoon on one job and cost me one on another, and this episode draws the line between AI tools that pay you back and the ones that just add more work with a nicer font. Same tool, opposite results. I’m grounding the split in fresh 2025 and 2026 research and a rule I call the verification tax, so you can tell checkable work from judgment work before automation touches either one.

Resources and Links Mentioned

• Finance AI Insider, the free weekly newsletter: https://www.f9finance.com/newsletter/
• BetterUp Labs and Stanford’s Social Media Lab research on “workslop”
• MIT’s 2025 State of AI in Business report
• The 2026 Journal of Accounting Research field study
• The “Ironies of Generative AI” research

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Excel at AI in Finance is for the finance pro, executive, and CFO looking to take their work to the next level. Mike is a senior finance leader breaking down AI tools like Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and beyond to reduce hours and prevent burnout. If you’re ready to break free from burnout in corporate finance and FP&A, it’s time to invest in AI for Finance.