Shanil Dissanayake

Founder & CEO, humaniseAI • I specialise in implementing no fluff, ROI first AI-solutions for CEO/CIOs • AI-Native Consultancy for mid-market ($10M+) businesses

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Don't automate the org chart.

Map tasks by complexity, not job title. Give the bottom 30 to 40% to agents, checked by sub agents. Your people live in the exceptions.

If it isn't a 5x return, don't do it.

Where's the bottom 30% in your team?

#AI #AgenticAI #AccountsPayable

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

AI is now 49% of the S&P 500. Last time one theme ran the index this hard? Railways, 1880s.

Bubble or boom, your board doesn't need a view.

It needs one process where AI pays back inside 12 months. Let investors bet on the track. You ship freight.

#AI #ROI

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Replit just dropped Anthropic as its default AI model. Reasons: cost and performance.

Until recently it was a top five Anthropic customer.

Could you switch that easily? If changing models means a six month rebuild, you don't have a vendor. You have a landlord.

#AI #CFO

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Anthropic wants government to block an AI model only at $1B in damages or 50 casualties.

That's a federal floor. Not your risk appetite.

No board would wear a $1M loss from a rogue agent. Set your own threshold, owner and kill switch.

#AI #AIGovernance

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Anthropic's AI agents now log 6x the hours of its own staff.

Hours were never the metric. Output per dollar is.

Their own finding: the bottleneck is now human attention. If your people can't review the work, more agents just means more mess.

#AI #AIAgents

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

The best guardrail for AI agents was written down in 1494.

Fragment just raised $12M to give agents a double entry ledger that must balance before a payment clears.

Debits equal credits or the money doesn't move. Finance has done AI governance for 500+ years.

#AI #CFO

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Agent users at EU small businesses are up 8x since May, per OpenAI.

Your smaller rivals have stopped chatting with AI. They're handing it whole jobs.

Mid market leaders: pick one process, put a number on it, ship it this quarter.

#AI #AIAgents

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Meta's CFO kept pulling the AI chief aside to warn that a flop would be "really, really bad."

Good. That's the job.

If your CFO first sees the AI program at budget review, you've already lost. Put finance in the room before the money moves.

#AI #CFO

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

AI agents can now get insured. Harbor just raised $10M to do it.

Insurers don't price hope. They price controls.

If you can't show what your agent did, who signed off and how to stop it, it's not insurable. Or deployable.

#AI #AIAgents

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Broadcom's CEO just compared enterprise AI spend to arcade tokens.

Most pilots burn credits and never hit the P&L. That's the casino.

Name the dollar before you buy the tokens. One process. One payback. Or don't spend.

#AI #ROI

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Jamie Dimon just blocked outside AI agents from JPMorgan accounts.

If the biggest bank won't let a third party agent near client money, your mid market ERP shouldn't either.

Give agents a job. Don't give them the keys.

#AI #AIGovernance

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Nadella just told every company to treat AI models as insider risks.

Any CPA could've told you that. It's segregation of duties.

The agent that drafts the payment shouldn't approve it. Keep a human on the brake.

#AI #AIGovernance

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Jefferies is calling 'massive capital destruction' in AI.

Read that as a buyer, not an investor.

Model prices are falling and vendors are burning cash. Don't lock in long contracts at today's rates. Pay for outcomes and make them earn the renewal.

#AI #CFO

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

@satyanadella just said the quiet part out loud: treat AI models like insider risks.

Logs they can't tamper with. Stop buttons they can't bypass. Humans in the loop.

If Microsoft won't trust the model blindly, why is your board?

#AI #AIGovernance

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

a16z says you need a new CFO. I'd say you need your current one building.

The finance teams winning with AI aren't waiting on IT. They're wiring agents into the close, the forecast and the controls.

A 10-day close in 2026 is a choice, not a constraint.

#AI #CFO

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Hone just raised a $60M seed on one idea: AI should be judged in dollars saved, not demos shipped. Good. That's the only scoreboard a CEO should accept. If your AI vendor can't name the number, you're funding a science project. #AI #ROI #hone

[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

Back at @SouthernGC, looking forward to golf season

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[Shanil Dissanayake @ShanilD]

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