Anna Tiomina

AI-First Fractional CFO and AI educator delivering practical AI training for finance teams and professional services orgs.

Productivity

Jun 2, 2026

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7 min read

AI News of the Month | May 2026

Governance, Liability, And A Pricing Shift That Breaks How Most Teams Budget For AI

Anna Tiomina

Productivity

May 26, 2026

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7 min read

Your AI bill is not a SaaS bill

Why Finance Teams Need To Actively Manage AI Costs, Not Just Forecast Them

Anna Tiomina

Productivity

May 19, 2026

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8 min read

How to Use Claude as a Team

The Collaboration Tools Your Plan Includes And How To Use Each One

Anna Tiomina

Productivity

May 12, 2026

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8 min read

Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up AI Adoption

What Fails, What Works, And Two Playbooks For Both Sides

Anna Tiomina

Productivity

May 5, 2026

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8 min read

AI News of the Month - April 2026

Three Clusters: the Agent Push, Regulatory Moves, and What Wall Street Earnings Actually Say About AI Roi

Anna Tiomina

Productivity

Apr 28, 2026

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7 min read

How to Use Your LLM as an AI Lab

Test Finance Workflows Before You Build or Buy

Anna Tiomina

Automation

Your AI Stack Should Have More Than One Layer

Apr 21, 2026

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7 min read

Your AI Stack Should Have More Than One Layer

How to Mix Platforms, Automation, Embedded AI, And General-Purpose LLMs

Anna Tiomina

Productivity

Why Private Equity Is Where AI Proves Itself

Apr 14, 2026

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11 min read

Why Private Equity Is Where AI Proves Itself

Lean Teams, High Stakes, And A New Set Of Tools That Fit The Environment

Anna Tiomina

Claude

Apr 7, 2026

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16 min read

AI News of the Month — March 2026

Fourteen launches, three regulators, one uncomfortable research finding

Anna Tiomina

Data

The Smarter AI Gets, The Less You Can Check It

Mar 31, 2026

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10 min read

The Smarter AI Gets, The Less You Can Check It

How To Validate, Stress-Test, And Know When To Call An Expert

Anna Tiomina

Governance

Mar 24, 2026

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12 min read

The Relay Problem

When AI Holds the Context and You Hold the Accountability

Anna Tiomina

AI Model

Mar 17, 2026

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14 min read

The CFO's Guide to Agentic AI

What the tools do, how they differ, and how to design tasks that actually work

Anna Tiomina

Claude Cowork: Real Tasks, Real Delegation

Mar 10, 2026

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12 min read

Claude Cowork: Real Tasks, Real Delegation

From copy-paste chatbot to desktop agent.

Anna Tiomina

Governance

Mar 3, 2026

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17 min read

AI News of the Month — February 2026

Government Bans, Mass Layoffs, and AI Agents in the CFO's Office

Anna Tiomina

Data

Feb 24, 2026

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15 min read

Building Your Finance AI CoE

From Framework to Action: What to Build and How to Start

Anna Tiomina, +1

Governance

Feb 17, 2026

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12 min read

The Finance AI Center of Excellence

The missing layer between AI experiments and AI results

Anna Tiomina, +1

Productivity

Feb 10, 2026

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12 min read

The AI Capability Gap in Finance

Why 59% "using AI" doesn't mean finance is actually AI-enabled

Anna Tiomina, +1

Feb 3, 2026

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12 min read

AI News of the Month — January 2026

The Widening Gap Between AI Ambition and AI Reality, Governance Updates and Market Restructuring.

Anna Tiomina

Productivity

Jan 27, 2026

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14 min read

How To Make AI Cash Forecasts Work

Business Drivers, Data Quality, and Security Settings

Anna Tiomina

Automation

How to Build AI Apps That Scale Your Expertise

Jan 20, 2026

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12 min read

How to Build AI Apps That Scale Your Expertise

All you need is Claude Pro and 30 minutes

Anna Tiomina

Jan 13, 2026

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12 min read

How AI Saved Me 50+ Hours in December

And How to Replicate It

Anna Tiomina

Budget

Jan 6, 2026

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18 min read

25 AI MOMENTS THAT SHAPED 2025

25 Developments from 2025 That Will Shape Your 2026

Anna Tiomina

Happy Holidays from Balanced AI Insights

Dec 23, 2025

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5 min read

Happy Holidays from Balanced AI Insights

Thank You for Making 2025 a Year of Honest Experimentation and Real Progress

Anna Tiomina

Productivity

Your Year-End Close Doesn't Have to Ruin the Holidays

Dec 16, 2025

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12 min read

Your Year-End Close Doesn't Have to Ruin the Holidays

Two AI workflows that Compress Days of Analysis and Forecasting into Hours

Anna Tiomina

Budget

How to Save Thousands in Taxes with AI Tax Planning

Dec 9, 2025

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13 min read

How to Save Thousands in Taxes with AI Tax Planning

AI just made year-end tax planning accessible—if you act now

Anna Tiomina

Anna Tiomina

AI News of the Month | May 2026

Your AI bill is not a SaaS bill

How to Use Claude as a Team

Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up AI Adoption

AI News of the Month - April 2026

How to Use Your LLM as an AI Lab

Your AI Stack Should Have More Than One Layer

Why Private Equity Is Where AI Proves Itself

AI News of the Month — March 2026

The Smarter AI Gets, The Less You Can Check It

The Relay Problem

The CFO's Guide to Agentic AI

Claude Cowork: Real Tasks, Real Delegation

AI News of the Month — February 2026

Building Your Finance AI CoE

The Finance AI Center of Excellence

The AI Capability Gap in Finance

AI News of the Month — January 2026

How To Make AI Cash Forecasts Work

How to Build AI Apps That Scale Your Expertise

How AI Saved Me 50+ Hours in December

25 AI MOMENTS THAT SHAPED 2025

Happy Holidays from Balanced AI Insights

Your Year-End Close Doesn't Have to Ruin the Holidays

How to Save Thousands in Taxes with AI Tax Planning

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