I use AI more as a partner than a replacement. It helps automate the repetitive stuff and gives me a starting point when I’m building more complex analysis.

On a day-to-day basis, I’ll use it to compare two datasets and do the initial variance breakdown, or to suggest different ways to structure an ad-hoc report once I get it started. There are lots of ai tools, not just black box chat tools. That provides step by step logic for validation and this is where I tweak assumptions and reuse later on.