“AI takes us from being these deep, strategic experts who are living their life in Excel, to living our life with business leaders,” said Tiffany Jones, Managing Director of Compensation at Accenture.

For a company where people are the product, getting compensation right isn’t just important, it’s existential.

And AI is changing how that happens, turning tedious, reactive work into real-time, strategic impact.

Here’s what that shift looks like inside one of the world’s largest, most complex organizations and what it signals for the future of every comp team.