Your AI Agents Are Only as Smart as Your Core Systems
Arief Warazuhudien
Your finance team deploys an AI agent to help close the monthly books. The agent reads invoices, matches them to purchase orders, and flags mismatches. So far, so good. Then it needs to check whether the goods receipt has been posted, whether the vendor is still active, or whether the invoice has entered a dispute workflow. Suddenly, the agent stalls. This isn't a story about a weak AI model. It's a story about architecture. ERP, CRM, HRIS, and other core systems are not just big databases you c