https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rjlouvHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 04 May 2026 09:00:43 +0000Real-world counter-anecdote from mid-market finance (sub-$500M revenue, 2-3k employees). On a customer's JD Edwards data, a playbook run via MCP returns AP aging by company plus the three vendors driving the variance plus the prior-month delta plus citations to the JDE F0411 rows in roughly 30 seconds. The same in Excel takes ~45 minutes. That's not 100x, it's not transformative, and it's not autonomous. It's one analyst hour reclaimed per query. Multiply by ~80 queries a month and a $50/hour fully loaded cost and the math is mundane and positive. Value is real and unsexy. The marketing has compressed all the unsexy ROI into the same sentence as the trillion-dollar promises. (Disclosure: I co-founded eyko, the platform doing this.)

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