AI can't read an investor deck

Despite reports that nearly a quarter of Harvard MBA graduates are still seeking employment three months after graduation and Anthropic research identifying financial analysts as highly vulnerable to AI displacement, the Mercor research team finds this concern may be premature. The post examines failure modes of frontier AI models when handling investor decks and financial presentation materials, identifying specific tasks where current models fall short. The findings suggest financial analysis roles retain meaningful complexity that AI systems cannot yet reliably replicate.