Are You Ready for AI in Finance?

By Dhosjan Greenaway-Dalini

Welcome to the August edition of Finance Tech AI. This newsletter is dedicated to exploring the evolving intersection of finance and technology, with a special focus on how Artificial Intelligence is shaping the future.

Whether you’re a founder, finance professional, SME leader, or someone curious about how these changes are impacting businesses, this newsletter will provide practical insights and takeaways to help you navigate the rapidly changing landscape.

In today’s newsletter:

• Are you ready for AI in Finance?

• Special Feature: World Afro Day - Guinness World Record

• The Dhosjan Show Podcast

• On the Horizon

Are you ready for AI in Finance?

As summer draws to a close, it's natural to think about the push towards year-end and the strategic goals that still feel too far off.  It’s often a period of assessment, planning and course correcting.

Here at Bia Innovate, we've channelled that forward-looking energy. We have been busy working over the summer to get a powerful new suite of AI tools off the ground. These tools support finance and business leaders in closing the gap between strategic targets, real-time business reality and actionable insights and prac next steps.  We’ve been working with and advising our partners on what would really move the needle when it comes to applying AI in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A). We believe the future of finance isn't just about automation; it's about augmentation and empowering finance leaders to become true strategic partners to founders, their organisations and to their clients.

Imagine being able to run complex scenario planning options in minutes, not days or weeks. Picture dynamic, intelligent forecasts that adapt to real-time market changes, and automated business reviews that free up your team to focus on strategy instead of spreadsheets.

This (and much more) is what we've been building. We are looking for an early group of forward-thinking finance leaders to help us refine it. If your team is grappling with the challenges of making sense and taking action from all  your disparate sources of data, manual forecasting, time-consuming reporting, or you feel limited by your current scenario analysis capabilities, let’s have a chat.

This is an opportunity to share your biggest FP&A challenges and be amongst the first to test a tool designed to solve them.

👉🏾 Interested in getting a first look? Send us message to learn more.

World Afro Day - Guinness World Record

Bia Innovate is excited to support the ninth anniversary of World Afro Day®,  September 15th, a global day of celebration and liberation of Afro hair and identity. This year we have an amazing opportunity to get behind the Guinness World Record attempt on World Afro Day, for the “largest cultural awareness lesson in 24 hours” – The Big WAD Lesson.  Join thousands of people around the world for a virtual lesson on Afro hair.  

It is an online recording which can be taken anywhere, within a 24-hour period, and it will celebrate Afro hair, culture, history and identity. We hope that you can be part of this special event. Register below to sign-up for the Guinness World Record!

The Dhosjan Show Podcast

Season 3 is coming soon! Some highlights from Season 2 include Exploring AI in Finance, deep dives into R&D tax credits and tips for Creating a Culture of Entrepreneurship.

All season 1 and 2 episodes are available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.  On our @BiaInnovateFinance channel on YouTube, we’ll share full episodes from Season 2 onwards, plus we’ll be adding video highlights from Season 1 as well!

The podcast dives into Finance, Technology, and AI with an emphasis on the human at the heart of innovation. We’ll cover business basics, founder stories and include practical tips for aspiring entrepreneurs, business owners, or anyone curious to learn. Plus, we’ll feature expert guest speakers to inspire and inform.

Tune into future episodes for more founder stories, business fundamentals, discussions on AI governance in practice, as well as explorations on more real business use cases for AI.

👉🏾 Don’t miss an episode. 🎧📺

On the horizon

Some exciting speaking engagements are coming up!

4 Sep 2025 - World Finance Forum - London (In-person conference)

An incredible gathering of industry leaders discussing the latest trends and innovations in finance transformation, AI, business partnering, FP&A, strategic leadership and diversity, equity and inclusion.  I’ll be exploring how AI and ML can help us move beyond automation toward real strategic insight.

In Summary

This month is about looking forward and embracing innovation. From the testing of new AI tools that redefine financial strategy to supporting a global cultural celebration, the focus is on actively shaping the future.

Let’s focus on exploring new possibilities and having the courage to set a powerful course for the rest of the year and beyond.

👉🏾 Reach out to us at Bia Innovate to learn how we can support you in your business transformation journey!

Who We Are

Bia Innovate is a Fractional CFO and Startup Consultancy.  We provide hands-on support to founders, finance and business leaders to turn strategy into action, finance into growth levers, systems into scalability, and AI integration into impact.

👉🏾 If you’re curious, stuck, or ready to explore your growth strategy with us, get in touch.

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