· Saul Mateos · CFO Career
How to Push Back as a CFO: Prudent, Not Lazy
How to push back as a CFO: the conversation that taught me the difference between a lazy no and a prudent no, and the four questions I ask now.
CFO Lab Blog
Field-tested frameworks and insights for operational CFOs. No-BS content that you can use tomorrow to drive real business impact.
- · Saul Mateos · Claude and AI Tools
How to Use AI in Finance Team Work: An Honest Scorecard
How to use AI in finance team work, after a year of doing it: six areas I tested, what stuck, what I quietly stopped doing, and where to start.
- · Saul Mateos · CFO Career
CFO Leadership Lessons: Feedback, Exits and Ownership
CFO leadership lessons from the seat: why soft feedback develops nothing, how to fire with dignity, and who gets to say stop on an open item.
- · Saul Mateos · AI-Native CFO
The Shadow AI Finance Team: How Adoption Spreads
How a shadow AI finance team forms, why blocking it fails, and what spreads AI adoption: shadow sessions, hands-on training, documenting the human.
- · Saul Mateos · AI-Native CFO
How CFOs Measure AI ROI: Three Questions
How CFOs measure AI ROI: what metric moved, what cycle got shorter, what work stopped, and why the real AI bill is the usage price, not the sticker.
- · Saul Mateos · Forecasts and Models
Financial Model Too Complex? 67 Tabs and Ozempic Finance
Is your financial model too complex? 67 tabs I inherited, 16 tabs I built myself, and why staying simple is harder than getting simple.