What 300+ Finance Leaders Really Want from AI in 2026

Here’s the paradox facing most mid-market finance teams right now: you have more AR tools than ever, and you’re still spending half your week on manual work. That’s not a technology gap — it’s an integration gap. And it’s exactly what Flywire set out to understand when they commissioned a survey of 300+ U.S. finance professionals earlier this year. The results, published in Flywire’s Beyond Automation: What Finance Teams Really Need from AI report , paint a clear picture of where AR stands in…