Practical takes on AI in finance, FP&A strategy, and building smarter financial operations. No fluff, no hype.
I spent two weeks building a 30-tab financial model. My CEO answered the deal in four minutes without opening it. Here's what I got wrong.
AI promised productivity gains. The implementation tax nobody budgets for is real. Here's the honest math from a CFO 8 months in.
The CFO job description is about managing money. The actual job is managing uncertainty while looking like you're not. Here's what nobody tells you.
One operator running Finance, Marketing, Technology, and HR at a $100M company. Here's what a real Tuesday looks like, and what it actually teaches you.
The CFO job description says you manage money. What it leaves out (absorbing pressure, knowing your limits, living with broken systems) is what actually determines whether you survive the seat.
Everyone wants to be in FP&A until they see what the job really demands: judgment, hard truths, and business partnership over modeling accuracy.
Claude went down last week and I realized how much of my workflow depends on infrastructure I don't control. Here's the resilience framework I built afterward.
At the biggest AI coding hackathon of the year, 3 of 5 winners weren't engineers. They were domain experts who knew exactly what was broken. Here's why that matters for finance leaders.
The gap between AI excitement and AI readiness is where the next generation of finance leaders will be defined. Here's what my week actually looks like.
We're saving 15 hours a week per person on paper. In reality, I'm spending 40 hours making sure it all works. Here's the honest math of AI adoption.
AI is reshaping financial planning and analysis. Here's what's actually working, what's hype, and how CFOs can start getting value from AI in their finance function today.
Every CFO has presented a budget they knew was wrong. Here's why traditional budgets fail and how AI-powered rolling forecasts replace the annual fiction.
After testing 30+ tools and watching most of them die within 90 days, here's the honest breakdown of what's left standing and why the AI layer changed everything.
After two years of implementing AI across finance teams, here's an honest breakdown of what delivered real value and what was a waste of time.
Most board reporting focuses on revenue, margin, cash, and growth. But the metrics that actually predict company health go much deeper. Here's what to add.
Should you hire an FP&A analyst or outsource to an AI-powered service? We break down the real costs, timelines, and trade-offs for growing companies.
A new CFO has 90 days to establish credibility and build the financial foundation. Here's the week-by-week playbook for making it count.
Your GL says one thing, your bank says another, and your CEO's spreadsheet tells a third story. Here's why your data never matches and how to fix it.
AI isn't coming to finance — it's already here. These five workflows are ready for AI automation right now, with real examples of what that looks like in practice.