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The AI-Native CFO

I'm the guy who tells everyone to adopt AI.

The CFOs getting burned on AI aren't the skeptics. They're the ones who said yes to everything.

• AI Implementation Challenges Finance Teams Don't Plan For

  The AI implementation challenges finance teams don't plan for: training overhead, debugging loops and a 40-hour weekly tax before the gains compound.

• The AI Readiness Finance Teams Actually Have

  My cleaning lady killed my AI agent. What that says about the gap between AI excitement and the AI readiness finance teams actually have today.

• 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.

• 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.

• The 70% That Ships: Perfectionism in Finance Teams

  Our check-matching tool shipped at 70%, not 100%. Why perfectionism in finance teams is the slowest goal, and three questions to ask before you ship.

• Automate FP&A Manager Tasks? Start With the Worst Process

  I sent my best FP&A manager to deposit checks. A month later, 75% of the manual work was automated. A playbook to automate FP&A manager tasks.