AI Engineer · July 29, 2026

Why Off-the-Shelf AI Doesn't Understand Money — Udi Menkes, Intuit

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Why it matters

Ask any LLM a financial question about your business. You'll get a fluent, confident, generic answer — one that doesn't truly know your business, or what happened when businesses like yours made that same decision. We build financial AI at Intuit serving 100M+ customers.

My takeaway: Why Off-the-Shelf AI Doesn't Understand Money — Udi Menkes, Intuit is a model-evaluation signal. The practical read is to tie capability claims to evidence, launch criteria, and regression tests rather than relying on demos or benchmark headlines.