A confident answer and a correct one look identical on the screen. Whether you can check the source is what separates them. Someone on your team asks AI a question about the business. Why margin fell last quarter. Which contracts carry a change-of-control clause. Which accounts look most likely to churn. The answer comes back fluent, specific and ready to repeat in the meeting. There is one question that decides whether you should: where [...]
The work that eats an afternoon can be done in the time it takes to read this. The report lands. The meeting is later today. Somewhere inside all those pages of numbers, commentary and tables is the story you are going to have to stand up and explain. It might be a board pack, monthly management reporting, a quarterly operations review, a sales pipeline readout. The format changes. The job does not.Before you walk into [...]
One model gives you an answer. Several tell you how much to trust it. There is a simple question worth asking before AI informs any real decision: how do you know the answer is right? Ask a single AI model a question and you get one confident, fluent reply. It looks finished. What it will not tell you is whether another capable model, looking at exactly the same information, would reach the same conclusion. [...]
Your company already has an AI strategy. The opportunity is to make it yours on purpose. Across your business right now, capable people are using AI to move faster. They are summarizing long documents, drafting client replies, checking a contract clause, pulling a set of figures into shape. Most of them are doing it on their own initiative, through personal accounts, ahead of any formal policy. This is what people mean by shadow AI, [...]
A simple question about the information your team used last week. Being able to answer it is the mark of a business that has AI under control. Someone on your team used an AI tool on company information last week. A contract, a customer list, a set of figures pulled for a report. Here is a question that sounds easy and is not: where is that data now? It is a fair assumption that [...]
A version of this question is being asked in most leadership teams right now, usually in a slightly nervous tone. Someone wants to run last quarter's numbers through an AI tool to save an afternoon, and someone else is not sure whether that is allowed. The instinct is to reach for a yes or a no. Is it safe, or is it not. That framing is the problem. Safe or not safe treats this [...]
Secure AI for the Middle Market: What to Look For The most dangerous AI in your company isn't the one IT is evaluating. It's the one your best analyst is already using, from a personal laptop, on a personal account, with last quarter's pipeline open in another tab. This isn't a hypothetical. Across mid-market companies in retail, CPG, manufacturing, financial services, and professional services, the same pattern repeats: adoption is happening from the bottom [...]
AI is no longer a future consideration. It is here, it is being used, and for most organizations, it is being used without governance. Finance teams, in particular, face a difficult position. The promise of AI is clear: faster analysis, automated reporting, instant answers from your own data. But the tools most people reach for, public models like ChatGPT, DeepSeek and others, were not built with enterprise data security in mind. The moment someone [...]
With the fast pace of business, data science is the way to elevate the playing field. Businesses can't get to the top without it. According to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, data-driven organizations have the potential to increase their revenue by up to 20% compared to their peers. To explore this topic further, we turned to Grigorios Skolidis - the VP of Data Science at EBM - whose extensive expertise in this field [...]
Artificial Intelligence is steadily growing to be ubiquitous in modern life. From the way our food is grown to facial recognition technology to deep learning that turns big data into actionable insights, new AI technologies are constantly on the rise. And so are the companies that are creating them. Q2 of 2019 has been a landmark quarter in terms of investments in AI. Funding for AI startups reached a stunning $7.4 billion in Q2, [...]
