Finance
11 posts tagged with Finance.
Cash management, financial discipline, and leadership habits that protect runway.
Feb 12, 2026
GenAI security basics for non-technical teams: a CFO/COO policy you can ship this week
A practical, non-technical security baseline for GenAI adoption: approved tools, data rules, redaction, logging, vendor checks, and incident response—built for CFO/COO accountability.
Feb 4, 2026
Agent authority levels: a CFO/COO ladder for autonomous work (with caps + guardrails)
A practical 4-level framework for approving AI agents safely: read-only, draft, execute-with-approval, and execute-with-caps—plus the guardrails CFOs and COOs need to trust automation.
Feb 4, 2026
Your GenAI vendor checklist: 10 questions a CFO/COO should ask (before you sign)
A procurement-ready checklist for GenAI vendors: data provenance, audit rights, retention, logging, indemnity, model change control, and the minimum terms that keep AI from becoming an unbounded risk line item.
Feb 3, 2026
Self-improving models are coming — don’t let them ‘learn in production’ without change control
A CFO/COO-friendly playbook for governing models that update or adapt: versioning, eval gates, rollback, and KPI ownership so ‘continuous improvement’ doesn’t become continuous risk.
Jan 31, 2026
AI isn’t a tool purchase — it’s an org design change (a CFO/COO playbook)
A practical playbook for leaders to reallocate work to AI safely: capture tacit knowledge, redesign workflows, set controls, and measure operating leverage without breaking execution.
Jan 30, 2026
The AI enablement maturity ladder: from experiments to measurable operating leverage
A CFO/COO-friendly maturity model for turning GenAI pilots into reliable workflows with governance, measurement, and real headcount efficiency.
Jan 30, 2026
AI model upgrades are an operational risk (treat them like software releases)
A CFO/COO-friendly change-control playbook for upgrading AI models safely: version pinning, eval gates, rollback plans, cost caps, and audit logs.
Jan 30, 2026
Run receipts: the missing audit layer for AI agents (a CFO/COO checklist)
A practical framework for making AI agents auditable: run receipts, verification steps, approval gates, and reconciliations—so automation scales without creating operational risk.
Jan 29, 2026
GenAI unit economics: a CFO/COO model to keep margins intact
A practical framework to model, forecast, and cap GenAI costs (tokens, routing, caching, quotas) so AI adoption improves productivity without creating an unbounded variable-expense line.
Jan 27, 2026
AI is not a tool purchase. It’s an org design change (a CFO/COO playbook)
A practical framework for reallocating roles, redesigning workflows, and measuring headcount efficiency gains from AI without triggering chaos or culture damage.
Jan 21, 2026
Cash management for technology businesses: run R&D like an investor
A practical guide to cash management for tech leaders, with runway targets, R&D governance, forecasting discipline, and a transparency playbook to protect growth.