You recognize the tune, but something feels off. That's how Marlon Davis describes many of today's AI initiatives: AI karaoke. Organizations are rushing to add AI to products, but too often they're layering technology onto solutions without fully understanding the customer problems they're trying to solve. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with fractional Chief Product Officer at Devlnio, Marlon Davis, to explore how organizations can move beyond superficial AI efforts and build products that deliver meaningful customer value.

Four specialists. 75+ years of combined close experience. One roundtable. We asked them to dissect the month-end close: where governance quietly erodes, why a one-day delay can cascade into seven, what happens when your best reconciliation person is unavailable, and where automation is genuinely delivering results today. 45 minutes of practical close strategy from people who know exactly where the process breaks, and how finance teams can fix it.

Python UDFs now Generally Available (GA), you can run custom Python code natively, securely, and serverlessly inside your SQL statements. Write standard SQL, import libraries like BeautifulSoup, or run machine learning tokenizers with zero infrastructure management. Speaker: Products Mentioned: BigQuery, Python User Defined Function.