Actually Intelligent podcast: Andrew Bihl, Numeric
On this episode, Max Thon sits down with Andrew Bihl, co-founder and CTO of Numeric—a team building the pipes behind how enterprise finance actually works.
This isn’t a surface-level AI conversation. It’s a real look at what happens when you try to bring intelligence into one of the most complex, trust-driven functions inside a business: accounting.
From untangling messy cash flows to the very real friction of getting finance teams to adopt new tools, Andrew shares what most people get wrong—and where the real opportunity is hiding.
If you care about where finance is going, how enterprise infrastructure is evolving, or what AI looks like when it leaves the slide deck and hits the real world—this one’s worth your time.
show notes:
00:00 - Challenges in Technical Domains
05:54 - Complex Financial Matching Problem
10:10 - Gradual Adoption Empowers Expert Users
12:15 - Accounting's Data Engineering Spark
16:45 - Engineering Shift in Code Quality
20:20 - Overhyped Bot Optimization Concerns
24:16 - Trust vs. Setup in Systems
25:46 - Adapting Systems for Rapid Change