From Reporting to Reasoning
Look at how the traditional finance intelligence stack is assembled, layer by layer.
At the bottom is the system of record — the ERP — which stores what happened. On top of that goes a transformation layer; ETL pipelines into a data warehouse which cleans and reshapes the data on a schedule. On top of that goes a visualization layer with BI tools and dashboards which renders the reshaped data into charts. And then, at the very top, sits you: expected to know your question in advance, request the report, and wait for the next refresh to answer it.