What building an AI-native finance function taught me
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar outlines five lessons from transforming her finance function with AI, spanning automated forecasting, stronger controls, and measuring AI ROI. The piece is notable as a rare insider account of a leading AI lab eating its own cooking — applying AI to core business operations. It sets a credibility benchmark for enterprise AI adoption and positions OpenAI as a practitioner, not just a vendor.