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The finance and accounting solutions you've been waiting for — delivered.

AI, deployed into the messy middle of finance — the close, reconciliations, controls, reporting. Let's build the tools you've been dreaming of for years.

❯ now shipping:

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the platform

Live data in.
Tools you built out.

Certified data as one source of truth, AI-built dashboards and tools on top, secured end to end — the real thing, running, not a slide about it.

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Two platform blueprints and two live tools — running on nothing but static files.

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The Finance AI Platform

Certified semantic models as one source of truth, AI-built tools on Azure Static Web Apps, secured by Entra ID.

diagram · the platform behind the tools View the architecture

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The SMB Finance Stack

The finance tech infrastructure for a $5–30M company: Xero and Gusto as systems of record, dashboards on top — managed by a fractional controller/CFO.

diagram · company-owned · CFO-managed View the architecture

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Finance AI Maturity Assessment

Score a finance team across 10 dimensions and watch the radar move — current phase, target, and the biggest gaps to close.

interactive · nothing saved · resets on open Take the assessment

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13-Week Cash Flow Forecast

A direct-method rolling forecast on synthetic data. Slide the as-of week and the whole model re-derives, with transaction-level drill-down.

interactive · synthetic data · drill-down Open the dashboard

who's behind this

A CPA who ships.

I'm Sander Abernathy, CPA — Atlanta, GA. Before I built any of this, I lived it: audit partner, PwC deal-group director, finance director in Europe, interim CFO. I've owned the audit, the close, and the board packet.

The pattern across all of it: finance teams drowning in manual work their systems should be doing. So I started fixing the machine itself — a process rebuild that took a multibillion-dollar restaurant chain's close from 14 days to four, systems implementations, and now the AI-built tooling you see running on this site.

Forward Deployed CPA is where I publish the work. Engagements are delivered through my advisory practice, Hundred Spires Advisory.

former audit partner pwc director · deal group european finance director interim cfo · multiple seats systems implementations ai-built finance tooling close: 14 days ❯ 4 · multibillion-dollar restaurant chain

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field notes

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Build notes and essays on AI in the close, the forecast, and the reporting stack — published as they ship.

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