# PwC

4 articles

Building AI Workflows

AI saved you 10 minutes. Explaining it cost 20.

Sage and PwC's Beyond the Black Box research put a number on AI's hidden cost: finance professionals spend 12.9 hours a week reconstructing and explaining AI outputs, with 26% of AI time savings lost to verification. The 71% rejection rate the headlines led with is the future cost; the 12.9 hours is what your firm pays now — usually out of partner time. The fix is to stop shipping AI deliverables alone and start shipping them with a research memo and a cross-model verification report.

Peter McCarrollMay 6, 2026

The Advisory Edge

Are you using AI to solve a cost problem or a revenue problem?

Most CAS practices are using AI to solve a cost problem. PwC's April research shows that's the 80% position — and it caps your upside. Here's what the 20% are doing instead, and why your niche is the prerequisite for getting there.

Peter McCarrollApril 19, 2026

Weekly AI Roundup

Weekly AI Roundup: The deferral window just closed

PwC and Accenture both restructured around AI this week. Anthropic shipped Opus 4.7 and quietly moved enterprise billing to per-token pricing. OpenAI bought its way into personal finance. Here's what a week like this means if you're running a CAS practice.

Peter McCarrollApril 19, 2026

The Advisory Edge

PwC just stopped selling hours

PwC launched a subscription AI platform that lets clients access tax, financial analysis, and due diligence intelligence — without the hourly bill. When the largest firm in the profession stops selling hours, every firm below them inherits the pricing question. The answer isn't panic. It's building.

Peter McCarrollApril 1, 2026