Am I Automating My Children's Future?

Recently, my twins graduated from college with their bachelor's degrees—one in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, the other in Biomedical Engineering. Watching them enter the workforce has been bittersweet. The entry-level job market today just doesn't have the same hustle, bustle, and open doors that we experienced decades ago.

As a mother, it makes me protective. But as the founder of Skeptics.AI, it has forced me into some deep, uncomfortable introspection.

With our platform, we are automating manual SOX and internal audit workflows—compressing days of documentation into under 30 minutes.

A heavy question kept me up at night: Am I contributing to the problem? Am I taking away the very entry-level stepping stones that the next generation needs to build a career in this profession? Am I being selfish?

Then I remembered what those "stepping stones" actually looked like.

When we entered the workforce, our initiation into audit meant endless hours of cognitive drudgery:

• Manual ticking and tying of endless spreadsheets.
• Cross-referencing hundreds of pages of evidence.
• Drafting memo after memo, regurgitating what a process owner told us.
• Box-checking sample testing that barely scratched the surface of true risk.

We called it "learning the ropes," but it was really just administrative grinding.

My platform isn't taking away their jobs. It is taking away the noise.

By automating the tedious, manual aspects of documentation, we aren't locking entry-level professionals out—we're letting them skip the grunt work and step higher up the ladder on day one.

When a fresh graduate joins a team powered by AI, they don't spend weeks rewatching walkthrough recordings. The technology handles the data ingestion. The human professional's job shifts immediately to what matters: critical thinking, analysis, and professional skepticism.

We're giving them an intelligence layer that acts as a digital mentor, allowing them to gain strategic advisory experience in their first year that used to take five years to achieve.

I'm not building a tool to replace our children. I'm building a tool so that when the next generation enters this profession, they are treated like the intelligent problem-solvers they are—not like data-processing machines.

The entry-level landscape has changed. But the opportunity to do work that actually matters? That is just getting started.