The FP&A Guy Network

There are genuine operator insights scattered throughout—token-based pricing risks, AI governance vs IT governance, change management failure rates, the 'harness' concept—but they're diluted by a long, repetitive bake-off and lots of fatigue/throat-clearing talk.

“AI governance is not IT governance. And governance is not sticking your head in the sand”

“Most major software implementations fail to meet whatever the goals were, something like 70%”

Some fresh framing for finance practitioners (the 'AI harness,' the cost-of-optimization inversion vs Excel, consumption-based pricing eroding FTE savings), but much circles familiar ground about AI fatigue, hallucinations, and 'AI is a magnifier' clichés.

“have you guys heard the term AI harness?”

“when people first learned Excel, how many models were there that were just horrendously big and calculated really slow?”

The participants are genuine domain practitioners—Executive Director of the Financial Modeling Institute, a FullStack Modeler co-founder/MVP, and an FP&A trainer—highly relevant to financial modeling, though they're recurring co-hosts rather than fresh senior operators.

“Ian Schnorr, Executive Director of Financial Modeling Institute”

“Giles Maille, humble MVP and co-founder of FullStack Modeler”

Strong concrete detail in places—exact token pricing, specific models, a named hallucination transcript, the Meta 14-month example, the Utah data center figures—but the central model bake-off is largely qualitative ('looks fine,' 'seems reasonable') rather than rigorous scoring.

“$10 for every million input tokens and $50 for every million output tokens”

“They spent 14 months before they did anything with AI documenting... They went from something like 6 days to 1 day”

The format produces real-time critique with some pushback (challenging the '0.3% acceptable variance' claim, debating whether CFOs would really pay double), but it's a friendly co-host chat with much agreement and little hard probing of each other's claims.

“This is not how you want to build the revolver section”

“would they feel that way if that meant 1,000 people on their team were using it and the price doubled”