ChatGPT‑5 promises stronger reasoning, fewer hallucinations, and faster responses —impressive advances, to be sure. But they don’t change a fundamental truth for Office of Finance teams: General‑purpose AI can’t substitute for a finance platform that understands context, governance, and how financial decisions are made.

That word — context — is the thread that runs through everything. Finance doesn’t deal in raw text or isolated facts. Instead, finance operates on dimensional data, hierarchies, time, and rules that govern how numbers roll up and flow. If you strip away that context, insights become brittle and harder to defend. OneStream is different. It delivers finance context with the data, so the analysis stays explainable, repeatable, and auditable. While fragmented tools dilute context, a unified platform preserves it.