# cfos (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cfos. Page: Feed: --- ## [How to replace FP&A software with Claude using 3 skills](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/how-to-replace-fp-and-a-software) _2026-08-21 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ AI will not replace your FP&A team. But it will replace your FP&A software. Three Claude Skills you can download and run today. ## [How to build a CFO brain with Claude and Notion in 10 minutes](https://cfooffice.io/p/how-to-build-a-cfo-brain-with-claude) _2026-08-20 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ I spoke to a CFO who walked me through how building a corporate memory as a CFO with Claude and Notion changed his life. You don’t have to be chained to spreadsheets anymore. ## [AI is not the reason for massive layoffs](https://cfooffice.io/p/ai-is-not-the-reason-for-massive) _2026-08-16 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ CFOs are being asked to fire people to pay for GPUs. But the bill they are really cutting for has not arrived yet. ## [How to become an AI-native CFO](https://cfooffice.io/p/how-to-become-an-ai-native-cfo) _2026-08-14 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ Roadmap to becoming an AI-native CFO ## [OpenAI's CFO Sarah Friar just published the AI finance playbook](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/openais-cfo-sarah-friar-just-published) _2026-08-13 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ OpenAI's CFO still closes the books manually. But she wants a zero-day close and continuously updated forecasting. 5 lessons for CFOs building an AI native finance function. ## [Claude Masterclass for CFOs starts in 3 hours (LIVE)](https://cfooffice.io/p/claude-masterclass-for-cfos-starts-b8c) _2026-08-13 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ 90 minutes with Wouter Born and CFO Paulo Tabarelli inside the Claude workflows every CFO wants to know starts at 11:00 AM ET today. (Just 3 hours left to join.) ## [85% Say AI Is a Priority. Only 10% Use It.](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/85-say-ai-is-a-priority-only-10-use) _2026-08-12 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ A new FloQast survey found the real accounting AI gap isn't the technology. It's trust, training and governance. ## [Claude Masterclass for CFOs starts tomorrow (LIVE)](https://cfooffice.io/p/claude-masterclass-for-cfos-starts-269) _2026-08-12 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ 90 minutes with Wouter Born and CFO Paulo Tabarelli inside the Claude workflows every CFO wants to know. ## [Your Auditor Is About to Ask for an AI Binder. Do You Have One?](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/your-auditor-is-about-to-ask-for) _2026-08-11 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ New PCAOB and COSO rules land before your 2027 audit. Here's the five-item list that turns a scramble into a five-minute handoff. ## [How to use Claude safely as a CFO](https://cfooffice.io/p/how-to-use-claude-safely-as-a-cfo) _2026-08-11 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ I spoke to a CFO who asked me if Claude is safe for my finance data. My answer surprised her. ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7l0nA3sD1RBF) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [CFOs are being asked one question about AI they can't answer](https://cfooffice.io/p/cfos-are-being-asked-one-question) _2026-08-09 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ Your board has stopped asking whether you're using AI. Three findings from the last three weeks that make that question urgent. ## [How to do financial modeling with Claude](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/how-to-do-financial-modeling-with) _2026-08-07 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Claude is the new Excel. Finance people can use Claude to do advanced financial modeling and build a storytelling board deck. ## [Claude Masterclass for CFOs (LIVE)](https://cfooffice.io/p/claude-masterclass-for-cfos-live-ca9) _2026-08-07 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ 90 minutes with Paulo Tabarelli (Group CFO) and Wouter Born inside the Claude workflows every CFO needs to know. ## [Your Dashboard Is Full of Data but Short on Answers](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/your-dashboard-is-full-of-data-but) _2026-08-06 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ Most dashboards are good at showing what already happened. The better question is whether they help anyone decide what happens next. ## [How I built a multi-entity FX consolidation with Claude Opus 5](https://cfooffice.io/p/how-i-built-a-multi-entity-fx-consolidation) _2026-08-06 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ So your CEO wants AI? AI CFO Office readers keep challenging us to give Claude something genuinely hard. If Claude Opus 5 can pass this test, it changes what CFOs can trust it with. ## [If Claude Code Were a Gumbo](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/if-claude-code-were-a-gumbo) _2026-08-05 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ A simple way to understand what makes an AI coding system useful ## [Two AI Labs Got Breached. So Did EY. Here's the One Question That Covers Both.](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/two-ai-labs-got-breached-so-did-ey) _2026-08-03 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ Anthropic, OpenAI and EY each disclosed a security incident in the same ten days. The fix isn't more trust in your vendors. ## [How to run a forensic-finance investigation with Claude Fable 5](https://cfooffice.io/p/how-to-run-a-forensic-finance-investigation) _2026-08-02 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ Why is cash worse than EBITDA? Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's 5th-generation, Mythos-class AI model. ## [The Close: Who's Actually Auditing the AI?](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/the-close-whos-actually-auditing) _2026-07-31 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ Illinois demands AI audits, a CPA firm just got qualified to run them and Claude Opus went full capitalist. ## [Why AI fails in finance](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/why-ai-fails-in-finance) _2026-07-31 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ MIT warns CFOs. 95% of AI is dangerous. ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/asGb8KOQCXRg) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [How to build a full FP&A scenario analysis with Claude](https://cfooffice.io/p/how-to-build-a-full-fp-and-a-scenario) _2026-07-31 · AI CFO Office · AI CFO Office_ We gave Claude 24 months of real SaaS data. Here’s everything Claude built. ## [Hacker Summer Camp, Here We Come!](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/hacker-summer-camp-here-we-come) _2026-07-30 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Here's where to find me. ## [Five Prompts That Make AI Think Like Your Firm's Best Reviewer](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/five-prompts-that-make-ai-think-like) _2026-07-30 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ Your AI-drafted memos read like templates because you're asking template-level questions. ## [Illinois Hired an Auditor Who Doesn't Exist](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/illinois-hired-an-auditor-who-doesnt) _2026-07-29 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ Illinois just required AI companies to get audited every year. No one is licensed to do it. ## [Anthropic just released Claude Opus 5 and it's insanely better than Fable 5](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/anthropic-just-released-claude-opus) _2026-07-26 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Anthropic released Opus 5 yesterday. For finance this one is different. Fable 5 intelligence at half the price. Higher accuracy on financial modeling. And 841 connectors to your finance stack. ## [The Close: Everyone Wants to See the AI Receipts](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/the-close-everyone-wants-to-see-the) _2026-07-24 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ CFOs face an AI cost question, a firm gets new AI coworkers, and PCAOB opens a comment period. ## [Claude just changed FP&A forever](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/claude-just-changed-fp-and-a-forever) _2026-07-24 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ We spoke to a CFO who asked us if they could build their entire annual budget inside Claude. ## [What to Check Before an AI Assistant Touches AR](https://nexairi.substack.com/p/what-to-check-before-an-ai-assistant) _2026-07-23 · Nexairi Dispatch · Nexairi Dispatch_ Billtrust just wired live AR data into Claude and Copilot. Here's the permission question nobody asked. ## [Fable 5 vs Opus 4.8 in finance: Only one survives the Audit](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/fable-5-vs-opus-48-in-finance-only) _2026-07-19 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Testing Claude Fable 5 vs. Opus 4.8 in finance. We ran the hardest finance test we could design. The models disagreed. The lesson for CFOs is when to use which model. ## [Using Claude Fable 5 as a CFO to rescue a broken month-end close](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/using-claude-fable-5-as-a-cfo-to) _2026-07-18 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Can Fable rescue a broken month-end close? And why it's better than Opus 4.8 for complex finance tasks. This is the finance-grade AI workflow nobody is talking about. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ufihYIUKzdgL) _2026-07-18 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [They are lying about AI in finance](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/they-are-lying-about-ai-in-finance) _2026-07-12 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Are we ever going to get ROI from AI? The AI feature you bought is a 90-day melting ice cube. MIT says 95% of AI produces zero measurable value. Anthropic's own product launches are erasing the... ## [Urgent Call for CFOs who want AI](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/urgent-call-for-cfos-who-want-ai) _2026-07-09 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ Your ERP records financial reality. It does not explain it. Every month, finance rebuilds the financial story outside the system. That changes now. ## [CISO Games GYM is Coming to Black Hat](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/ciso-games-gym-is-coming-to-black) _2026-07-07 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ After a day of back-to-back meetings at Black Hat, the last thing a security leader wants is another vendor steak dinner. ## [How to build a real Financial Story with Claude MCP](https://finstoryai.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-real-financial-story) _2026-07-05 · AI In Finance · AI In Finance_ We combined an MCP server with a Claude skill so the model pulls real data from NetSuite, analyzes it, and asks you 3 sharp questions per page before writing a word. Your judgment goes in. ## [What's Your Best Kept Secret?](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/whats-your-best-kept-secret) _2026-07-01 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ That's THE question I asked leaders in security and tech so I could get radically close to the humans behind the title. ## [CISO Games Season 1 Kicks Off Next Week!](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/ciso-games-season-1-kicks-off-next) _2026-05-14 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ I’m really excited to kick off Season 1 of CISO Games with our first Huddle of the season! ## [Introducing CISO Games.](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/introducing-ciso-games) _2026-04-13 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ The quarterly athletic tournament for cybersecurity leaders that the industry didn't know it was waiting for. Here's what it is, why it exists, and how you can be part of it from day one. ## [What OpenClaw Going Sideways Reveals About How Humans Interact with Technology](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/what-openclaw-going-sideways-reveals) _2026-04-10 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO of SecurityScorecard AY returns to Audience 1st to tell us what he sees coming that most of the cybersecurity industry is still ignoring. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193713426/fec619f78df4f10d4659f8dd688e5f12.mp3) ## [This is the Most Unpredictable Buying Decision Criteria in Cybersecurity That Needs to Be on Your Radar](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/this-is-the-most-unpredictable-buying) _2026-04-08 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ The tech is good enough. So cybersecurity buyers are choosing the vendor based off of this wildly unpredictable decision criteria. ## [Why I Partnered with CISO XC to Deepen Relationships Between Buyers and Vendors](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/why-i-partnered-with-ciso-xc-to-deepen) _2026-04-01 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Cybersecurity vendors can now sponsor fully produced CISO conversations at CISO XC events - starting April 23 in Plano, TX. Want in? ## [Why Human Risk Will Define the Next Decade of Security](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/why-human-risk-will-define-the-next) _2026-03-18 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ 8% of Your People. 80% of Your Breaches. Here's Why the Fix Has Nothing to Do With Training. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191291315/8486332559372b1afb586652518fe38c.mp3) ## [Why I Launched a Tattoo Show in the B2B Tech Space](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/why-i-launched-a-tattoo-show-in-the) _2026-03-16 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Introducing Ink Your Brand - the social show I built to prove that the most powerful thing a B2B brand can do right now is create something people actually feel. ## [The Attention Collapse: How B2B Tech Companies Trained the Most Skeptical Buyers in the World to Ignore Them](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/the-attention-collapse-how-b2b-tech) _2026-03-11 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Buyer Attention Is Limited. Buyer Trust Is Fractured. B2B Tech Did This to Itself. ## [Meet Me @ RSA Conference. Pick My Brain & Get On Camera.](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/meet-me-rsa-conference-pick-my-brain) _2026-03-09 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Open Office Hours, on-camera research, and booth coverage - March 24th, W Hotel Lobby Bar. All for you. ## [My RSA Conference Hypothesis Is Going to Make a Lot of CMOs Uncomfortable](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/my-rsa-conference-hypothesis-is-going) _2026-03-06 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ I have a hypothesis about RSA Conference that most cybersecurity marketers are going to hate. I'm going to the floor to test it on camera. Come prove me wrong. ## [Why the Last 5 Years of My Life Have Been One Massive Marketing Experiment](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/why-the-last-5-years-of-my-life-have) _2026-03-05 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ And why I've never been more certain about what comes next. ## [The Kid Who Googled "How to Become a Hacker" and Ended Up Wrecking Real Ones](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/the-kid-who-googled-how-to-become) _2026-03-01 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Inside the Mind of Huntress's John Hammond and What He Reveals About the Industry's Blind Spots [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189518909/5517bbd22238ce180875d56e4f3d261a.mp3) ## [The PhD Cryptographer Who Bet His Career on a Lukewarm Idea and Succeeded](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/the-phd-cryptographer-who-bet-his) _2026-02-28 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Inside the Mind of SecurityScorecard's Founder, Aleksandr Yampolskiy [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189492019/c04b045fd46b9a29cd29d088984d013f.mp3) ## [How to Stop Falling for Fake Cyber Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Claims](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-falling-for-fake-cyber-023) _2025-12-19 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ Listen now (44 mins) | Every vendor in exposure management now says they do CTEM. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185368582/fe2f0503d2f61593fdfd056cfb09c8d3.mp3) ## [Why Are You Outsourcing Buyer Intimacy to Gartner?!?](https://audience1st.substack.com/p/why-are-you-outsourcing-buyer-intimacy-0b5) _2025-12-05 · Dani Woolf · Audience 1st_ The Gartner debate keeps resurfacing on LinkedIn. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/185368583/df01a409a5edc2ab7dd5247a4d86bf06.mp3)