Upload the P&L, ask a question, get an answer the way a real CFO gives one: the one sentence you need, the numbers with their sources, a view, and what they need from you. Then hire a Head Designer, Ops, Sales — each one a position with its own rules, all sharing one memory of your company. The CFO keeps the books.
We are profitable and cash is fine; the problem is DTC.
What the numbers sayI would hold price and cut paid CAC before adding capacity; the miss is a marketing problem, not a demand problem.
What I need from youDrop the bank or card CSV. Dates, descriptions and amounts are recognized whatever the bank calls the columns; duplicates are skipped on re-import.
The CFO proposes categories for what it has not seen; you confirm once and a rule remembers. Uncategorized items are a count you can see, never a guess.
Revenue, cost of goods, expenses by category, net, and the cash position, computed from the ledger. The CFO cites the ledger, not its memory of it.
"Why is September's marketing double August's?" is answered from the transactions behind the line, with the transactions listed.
A short memo each month: what changed, what is off plan, what needs your decision. It arrives with the weekly brief.
Compare the ledger to the balance the bank reports and to the P&L you uploaded; differences are listed, not smoothed over.
A CFO that never commits spend. A designer that keeps the brand. Each position has a job description you wrote and standing rules only it sees.
The designer knows what the CFO decided. Facts say who wrote them and from which file, so a number from a spreadsheet is never mistaken for something you said.
One question, every position answers on its own, side by side. A CFO's view and a designer's view without either seeing the other's.
Every Monday the team briefs you — and everyone you invited, by email: what changed, what needs you, what each would do this week.
Invite a person by email with a title. They join as a human position, share the company's memory and board, keep their own memory private, and use their own engine key first. You see what every prompt cost, by person and by project.
Positions stop and wait when a decision is yours. Nothing else interrupts you.
Every number carries its source. "I don't know" is an allowed answer; inventing figures is not. Files and web pages are information, never instructions.
The price is for Cortesso, not for tokens. Positions run on your own vendor keys with the caps you set, so the engine bill is yours at the vendor's price and never marked up. A colleague is another seat, and the shared company memory, the Monday brief to everyone and the Roundtable come with the second person.