Let’s talk about Maria Scott over at TAINA Technology.
Word on the street has it she’s been highlighting a wild pivot in financial tech, pushing everyone to stop treating artificial intelligence like a toy for tiny, isolated chores and start looking at how it can run whole workflows, whenever that October 2026 timeline actually rolls around.
True or not? Who’s to say.
Think about old-school software for a second.
It crawls on rigid rails.
Drop a weird data point into the mix, and the whole machine throws a tantrum.
Some folks whisper about a London compliance desk where a tiny data hiccup froze a whole automated pipeline because the old software just couldn't think on its feet.
Classic.
Old systems love strict, hardcoded paths.
They need a map for every single step.
Agentic workflows just laugh at maps.
They sniff out a big goal, hack their own path through messy databases, and figure out the next move in real time.
Back at the Zurich Tax Tech Symposium in March 2025—or so the legends go—engineers supposedly argued over speed versus flexibility.
Do you want raw velocity, or do you want a system that doesn't panic when things get weird?
Rigid setups kept begging for human babysitters.
Clear out those structural bottlenecks, and suddenly your tools might actually scale their analysis without falling apart.
Or maybe they just break in new, creative ways.
Either way, it beats doing tax math by hand.
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