Forward-deployed finance.
AI tooling built inside your enterprise — on your Microsoft stack, your governed data, your identity platform. I embed with the finance team, we ship working tools together, and the team keeps building after I leave.
❯ the resume: audit partner · pwc deal-group director · european finance director · interim cfo
Your analysts already know what to build. They've just never been allowed to ship.
Forward-deployed finance flips the usual IT project on its head. Instead of finance writing requirements and waiting in the backlog, the tools get built inside the finance team — with AI doing the coding, governed semantic models supplying one version of the numbers, and Entra ID governing who sees what. No shadow IT, no ungoverned spreadsheets: the platform is the guardrail, so the speed doesn't cost you control.
Three engagement shapes
I embed and ship
I sit with your finance team and personally build the first tools — dashboards, close trackers, reconciliation monitors — on Azure Static Web Apps against your certified models. Working software in weeks, on your infrastructure, inside your security perimeter.
See the kind of toolStand it up, teach the team
The full reference architecture — certified Power BI semantic models, the deployment pipeline, Entra ID security — stood up with your IT, plus the training that turns your analysts into builders. The goal is a finance team that ships its own tools.
See the architectureDesign it, hand it off
Sometimes your team should build it. I'll assess where your finance org is on the AI curve, design the platform and governance model for your environment, and leave you a roadmap your IT and finance leaders can execute.
Start with the assessmentA finance operator, not a vendor
I've owned the numbers you're automating
Audit partner, PwC deal-group director, finance director in Europe, interim CFO. I know what a close feels like from the inside — which is why the tools I build survive contact with month-end.
14 days to 4 — at multibillion-dollar scale
I rebuilt the month-end close process at a multibillion-dollar restaurant chain and took it from two weeks to four days. Process first, then systems, then automation — in that order, because tooling a broken process just breaks faster.
Everything on this site is the demo
The architectures, the dashboards, the assessment — all built with AI, all running in your browser right now. That's the same method I bring inside your firewall: AI-built, CPA-checked, governed by design.
Client work is confidential — engagements are described here without names. Delivered through my advisory practice, Hundred Spires Advisory.
Bring the builds inside your firewall.
One email starts it: a short working session on your close, your stack, and what your team could ship in the first 90 days.