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Assess Sales Pipeline Health
Examines whether your sales pipeline is genuinely healthy — or whether volume is masking quality problems that will compound into missed revenue. Reviews conversion patterns, attribution accuracy, and the cost of chasing the wrong leads.
Audit the ROI of Learning and Development
Assesses whether the learning investment is producing capability the business can actually use — and where to redirect effort and resource for genuine commercial impact.
Audit Your CFO Risk Register
A forensic review of your risk register — identifying underweighted risks, performative mitigations, and where the register is a compliance document rather than a genuine decision-making tool.
Audit Your HR Technology Stack
Assesses whether the HR technology portfolio is fit for purpose — or quietly consuming budget and data integrity after years of growth by accretion rather than design.
Build an Early Warning System
Reads leading indicators and quiet anomalies in your financial and operational data — surfacing risks and trends that are technically fine but heading somewhere nobody has named yet.
Coach Your Finance Team on AI Adoption
Builds a CFO-led AI adoption plan that starts with people, not software — covering communication, fast-value use cases, capability building, and maintaining the controls a finance function can never afford to drop.
Deliver a Difficult Budget Reset Conversation
Helps craft a message that delivers difficult financial news with clarity and empathy — keeping leaders aligned rather than defensive, and maintaining credibility through a moment that could fracture both.
Deliver Bad News Upwards
Structures a clear upward message: the miss stated upfront, causes diagnosed honestly, recovery plan specific enough to be believed — calibrated to your CEO's communication style and your specific relationship.
Evaluate Product Marketing Readiness
Diagnoses whether your product marketing function is genuinely equipped to support revenue — or producing assets that look complete but fail to move buyers. Identifies the gap between output and what sales actually needs.
Explain Financial Reality at a Town Hall Without Panic
Structures a town hall message that tells the financial truth in a way employees can receive — honest, human, and clear enough that people leave feeling trusted with reality rather than managed through it.
Optimise Costs Without Blunt Cuts
Maps your cost base against growth impact, execution difficulty, and operational risk — so every efficiency decision is a considered trade-off rather than a blunt instrument. Identifies where to cut, restructure, or hold.
Optimise Operational Margins
Identifies hidden sources of operational complexity eroding profit margins — providing a framework for simplification and automation that improves profitability without disrupting core business performance.
Plan Your First 90 Days as a New CFO
Builds a rigorous, phased playbook for a new CFO — covering relationships to win early, financial skeletons to find first, team reads to form deliberately, and early wins that signal strategic credibility.
Pressure-Test Your Three-Year Financial Model
A structured adversarial review of your long-range financial model — exposing where compound assumptions mask fragility and where the model functions as a plan document rather than a decision tool.
Review Internal Controls Effectiveness
Diagnoses whether your internal controls environment genuinely prevents financial misstatement, fraud, and operational failure — or provides the appearance of control without the substance.
Run a High-Impact Finance Team Meeting
Redesigns finance meetings as decision-making forums — where risks get named, owners become accountable, and the team leaves with momentum rather than a recap of the dashboard everyone already read.
Stress-Test a Finance Leader Candidate
Goes beyond competence testing to assess a finance candidate's judgment under pressure — exposing commercial instincts, risk appetite, and leadership maturity through a PE-style diligence session disguised as an interview.
Stress-Test Your Annual Operating Plan
A rigorous adversarial review of your AOP — exposing fragile assumptions, wishful growth targets, and where the plan would fail under realistic pressure.
Stress-Test Your Unit Economics
Stress-tests your unit economics — exposing where costs are allocated generously, cohort behaviour is extrapolated optimistically, and the model would break under honest scrutiny.