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Boston &middot; Fall 2026<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"gallery-wrap\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"gallery\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1301.jpeg\" alt=\"Goodwin Pharma Services Symposium, Boston\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1288.jpeg\" alt=\"Goodwin Pharma Services Symposium, Boston\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1285.jpeg\" alt=\"Goodwin Pharma Services Symposium, Boston\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1081-scaled.png\" alt=\"Goodwin Pharma Services Symposium, Boston\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/goodwin-symposium-josiah.png\" alt=\"Josiah Tubbs at the Goodwin Pharma Services Symposium, Boston\">\n      <\/div>\n      <p class=\"gallery-cap\">Scenes from the inaugural Goodwin Pharma Services Symposium, Boston, which CFGI exclusively sponsored.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <article class=\"article\">\n    <div class=\"measure\">\n\n      <p class=\"lede\">Pharma services has become one of the most active corners of healthcare and life sciences investing. At the inaugural Goodwin Pharma Services Symposium in Boston, which CFGI exclusively sponsored, executives, private equity investors, and advisers returned to one theme: the science is accelerating, the processes behind it are not, and that gap is where the opportunity sits.<\/p>\n\n      <h2>Why capital is moving<\/h2>\n      <p>Speakers described a clear pivot over the past five years, as investors shifted from traditional health services into pharma services. The appeal is straightforward: the sector offers exposure to advanced therapies, from biologics to cell therapy, without the billing and reimbursement risk of care delivery. Panelists saw limited AI disruption risk and substantial AI upside, in an industry where one speaker put the share of studies running behind schedule at roughly 85 percent. Independent research points the same way: a <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9857498\/\">2023 analysis of more than 2,500 surgical trials<\/a> found only about one in five finished within the planned timeframe.<\/p>\n      <p>The deal data supports the momentum. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.com\/us\/en\/industries\/health-industries\/library\/pharma-life-sciences-deals-insights.html\">PwC reports<\/a> that pharmaceutical and life sciences deal value passed $65 billion in the first quarter of 2026, nearly double the prior-year quarter, with private equity increasingly active in services subsectors.<\/p>\n\n      <h2>Differentiation drives the exit<\/h2>\n      <p>Investors are discerning, and several panelists cautioned that valuations across niches have been uneven, with some areas bid up. Quality of revenue came up repeatedly: customer concentration, and the gap between pipeline and contracted revenue, particularly in emerging businesses. Buyers want to see that backlog is real, that contracts are papered and current, and that management can explain why its service outperforms and why its growth beats the market.<\/p>\n      <p>On the M&amp;A side, the bid-ask spread has been wide after several subdued years shaped by policy and trade uncertainty. Panelists noted that acquirers will still pay platform-level multiples for add-ons in critical niches, but platforms themselves are trading a few turns below prior levels. Earn-outs and structural terms deserve early attention, because they shape integration as much as price.<\/p>\n      <p>Sponsors also stressed discipline about what to own. Several favored niches that are less capital intensive, where understanding the underlying economic model shows how to improve it, and spoke of buying businesses they would be happy to hold for the long term as hold periods stretch.<\/p>\n\n      <h2>A market being reshaped<\/h2>\n      <p>Three forces stood out. First, scale cuts both ways: as the largest CDMOs grow, smaller and mid-sized providers can give innovative sponsors the attention they may not get elsewhere. Second, China is influencing sourcing decisions. One speaker estimated that roughly 30 percent of innovation now happens there, in line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evaluate.com\/content-hubs\/world-preview\/\">Evaluate&rsquo;s estimate<\/a> that Chinese companies drive nearly 30 percent of the global drug pipeline. Third, unpredictability, from tariffs to an unsettled regulatory model, is a bigger risk than the impact of any single policy.<\/p>\n      <p>Speakers also flagged manufacturing capacity that may have been overbuilt among the larger players, now being streamlined as a sign of improved efficiency, along with reimbursement questions in cell and gene therapy that remain unresolved.<\/p>\n\n      <h2>Operationalizing AI: where value is actually created<\/h2>\n      <p>The final panel of the day, featuring CFGI&rsquo;s Head of AI Client Service, Josiah Tubbs, turned to the role of AI in value creation within pharma services investment theses. The throughline: returns depend less on the technology itself than on an organization&rsquo;s ability to operationalize it. In a sector built on validated processes and audit-ready evidence, AI creates value only when it runs inside controlled workflows, with outputs that quality and operations teams can trust.<\/p>\n      <p>Josiah&rsquo;s key takeaways:<\/p>\n      <ol>\n        <li><strong>Prioritize ruthlessly.<\/strong> Focus investment on a small number of initiatives tied directly to the investment thesis, rather than spreading it across a broad set of pilots.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Define success before the build.<\/strong> Agree on success metrics and acceptance criteria upfront, then use clear go\/no-go decisions to scale what works and stop what does not.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Pair readiness with governance.<\/strong> Readiness determines whether data, processes, and people can support AI; governance determines whether its outputs can be trusted and defended. Advancing one without the other leads to stalled pilots or unmanaged risk.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Build a culture of adoption.<\/strong> Bring QA and operations in early as design partners and keep experts in the loop, so AI becomes part of how work gets done rather than another tool on the side.<\/li>\n      <\/ol>\n\n      <div class=\"pullquote\"><p>Returns depend less on the technology itself than on an organization&rsquo;s ability to operationalize it.<\/p><\/div>\n\n      <h2>What this means for finance leaders<\/h2>\n      <p>For CFOs, sponsors, and boards, the symposium reinforced where finance earns its seat. Revenue quality, concentration, and backlog conversion will be tested in diligence, so the evidence needs to be ready well before a process starts. That is where disciplined finance support pays off: quality-of-earnings analysis, audit-ready financial statements, and validated backlog and contract data prepared ahead of a transaction. Contract terms, earn-outs, and integration costs should be modeled early. And the claim that a service model is better, including how a company responds when things go wrong, must be backed by data.<\/p>\n      <p>The same discipline applies to the AI story. As Josiah&rsquo;s panel made clear, a credible transformation case rests on controlled workflows, defined success metrics, and governance that lets quality and operations teams stand behind the output, not on the technology alone.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"contacts\">\n        <div class=\"c-label\">Talk to our team<\/div>\n        <div class=\"c-person\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/josiah-headshot-removebg-preview.png\" alt=\"Josiah Tubbs\"><div><h3>Josiah Tubbs<\/h3><p class=\"c-title\">Head of AI Client Service, CFGI<\/p><a class=\"c-mail\" href=\"mailto:jtubbs@cfgi.com\">jtubbs@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n        <div class=\"c-person\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Keith-Ouellette-Photo-300x300.png\" alt=\"Keith Ouellette\"><div><h3>Keith Ouellette<\/h3><p class=\"c-title\">Partner, CFGI<\/p><a class=\"c-mail\" href=\"mailto:koulette@cfgi.com\">koulette@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/article>\n\n  <section class=\"cta\">\n    <div class=\"shell cta-inner\">\n      <div>\n        <h2>Preparing a pharma services business for its next chapter?<\/h2>\n        <p>CFGI&rsquo;s Transaction Advisory Services and Capital Markets &amp; Exit Readiness teams work with pharma services management teams and sponsors on revenue quality, diligence readiness, and deal execution.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/contact-us\/\">Talk to our team &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insights &middot; Life Sciences &amp; Healthcare Pharma Services: Where Capital Is Moving and What Buyers Will Pay For Takeaways from the Goodwin Pharma Services Symposium on investor appetite, differentiation, operationalizing AI, and what it all means for finance leaders. 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It is limited by capacity &mdash; and intelligent automation is how carriers break through it.<\/p> <a class=\"hero-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/finance-transformation\/\">Explore CFGI Finance Effectiveness &rarr;<\/a> <p class=\"byline\">CFGI Finance Effectiveness &amp; Insurance Practice &middot; 2026<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"intro\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <p class=\"lede\">Specialty carriers are being asked to write more business with a workforce that is getting smaller. Over the next 15 years, half the current insurance workforce will retire, leaving more than 400,000 positions unfilled &mdash; and fewer than a quarter of the people in the industry today are under 35.<\/p> <p>At the same time, submissions keep climbing. Surplus lines filings are growing roughly six times faster than premium, and underwriters already spend about 70% of their day on work that isn&rsquo;t underwriting &mdash; re-keying broker files, chasing documents, and hunting for the data they need to price a risk. The ceiling on growth is not appetite or capital. It is how many submissions a team can physically move through the door.<\/p> <p>Intelligent automation is the lever that lifts that ceiling. Used well, it doesn&rsquo;t replace the underwriter&rsquo;s judgment &mdash; it clears away everything that keeps them from it.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">The Opportunity<\/span> <h2>Breaking the link between growth and cost<\/h2> <p>For most of the industry&rsquo;s history, writing more business meant hiring more people. Automation breaks that link. When extraction turns the emails, PDFs and scanned loss runs of a submission into structured risk data, a file that used to clear in hours clears in minutes &mdash; and each underwriter can carry more of the book without the team growing in step.<\/p> <p>Speed compounds the advantage. Roughly <span class=\"hl\">60% of broker business goes to the first credible quote<\/span>, so the carrier that responds faster simply wins more. And the richer, cleaner data that automation captures along the way feeds better pricing and margin: insurers leaning on advanced analytics and AI post combined ratios about six points lower than their peers, and the industry&rsquo;s AI leaders have delivered more than six times the five-year shareholder return of the laggards.<\/p> <p>The catch is that most programs never get there. Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI initiatives to be canceled by 2027 &mdash; not because the technology fails, but because the programs stall between a promising pilot and production. The difference is strategy: knowing what to automate now, what to pilot, and what to keep firmly in human hands.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec alt\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Across the Lifecycle<\/span> <h2>Where AI fits &mdash; and where it shouldn&rsquo;t<\/h2> <p>The specialty workflow runs from submission to cancellation, and AI plays a different role at each step. It is strongest where the work is high-volume and pattern-heavy, and it should stay in a supporting role wherever a decision binds the firm. The rule we apply is simple: automate what is proven today, pilot what is emerging, and keep every control-bearing step rules-based and auditable, with a person on the decision.<\/p> <div class=\"chain\"> <div class=\"row\"><b>Submit-to-Clear<\/b><span>Proven. Extraction and agents turn messy submissions into cleared, structured files in minutes &mdash; people touch only the exceptions.<\/span><\/div> <div class=\"row\"><b>Clear-to-Quote<\/b><span>Emerging. A copilot populates the rater from cleared data, researches the risk, and challenges pricing logic &mdash; the underwriter still decides.<\/span><\/div> <div class=\"row\"><b>Quote-to-Bind<\/b><span>Proven. Once the judgment is made, automation removes the wait between acceptance and bind so underwriters move straight to the next risk.<\/span><\/div> <div class=\"row\"><b>Bind-to-Endorse<\/b><span>Proven. High-volume, lower-complexity endorsements go straight through; anything uncertain routes to a person.<\/span><\/div> <div class=\"row\"><b>Bind-to-Renew<\/b><span>Emerging. An agent watches the book for expirations and assembles the renewal package before the broker asks.<\/span><\/div> <div class=\"row\"><b>Cancel \/ Reinstate<\/b><span>Bought, not built. Compliance platforms own the notice rules; automation handles the detection and record-keeping around them.<\/span><\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Where to Start<\/span> <h2>Three high-impact use cases<\/h2> <p>Across the lifecycle, three use cases deliver the most value first. Each pairs a clear strength with the guardrail that keeps control where it belongs &mdash; with people.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"shell\"> <div class=\"s-grid\"> <div class=\"s-card\"><span class=\"sc-cat\">Intake<\/span><h3>Extraction &amp; agents<\/h3><p>AI absorbs inconsistent submissions no rule set could handle, validates every field against appetite with confidence scores, and runs the clearance and OFAC checks people do by hand &mdash; all within fully audited authority limits.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"s-card\"><span class=\"sc-cat\">Research<\/span><h3>Underwriter copilot<\/h3><p>A conversational copilot surfaces how comparable risks were priced, pulls web-grounded research with sources attached, and stress-tests the quote against guidelines &mdash; but nothing enters a system of record unless a human decides.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"s-card\"><span class=\"sc-cat\">Strategy<\/span><h3>Portfolio intelligence<\/h3><p>A live view of loss ratio by segment, class and broker flags appetite drift and pricing inconsistency before they become a reserve problem &mdash; with each owner reviewing their metrics on a defined cadence.<\/p><\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"measure\"> <div class=\"pquote\"> <p>The goal is never to take the underwriter out of the decision. It is to take everything that isn&rsquo;t the decision off their desk.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec alt\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Making It Stick<\/span> <h2>Process and people, in parallel<\/h2> <p>Technology is the easy part. The programs that succeed redesign the work before they automate it &mdash; mapping the process people actually run, with its rework loops and workarounds, rather than the one in the manual. And they bring underwriters along: the role shifts from keying data and chasing documents to judging risk and owning the decision, and people will trust a system that recommends only if they understand it. The urgency is widely felt &mdash; about <span class=\"hl\">90% of insurance executives<\/span> say reinventing how teams work with AI is urgent, but only a quarter have built the skills to act on it.<\/p> <p>Designing for cost matters just as much. AI unit prices are collapsing &mdash; the cost of a given capability fell from twenty dollars to seven cents per million tokens in under two years &mdash; yet total spend keeps climbing as usage grows, and that makes it harder to forecast than ordinary depreciation. A model-agnostic architecture, a solid data foundation and a clear governance layer let a carrier swap the model, vendor or location without re-engineering the process around it. Where the work should run &mdash; cloud, owned infrastructure, or a hybrid &mdash; is ultimately a CapEx-versus-OpEx question, which is why finance belongs at the table from the start.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">From Ambition to Execution<\/span> <h2>Breaking through the messy middle<\/h2> <p>Every automation program moves through the same arc &mdash; assess, select, enable, adopt, govern, measure, scale &mdash; and most stall in the middle three, where there is no independent voice to challenge vendor pitches, no clear path from proof of concept to production, and risk and audit arrive too late. CFGI pairs finance and controls expertise with hands-on delivery, so automation passes audit, gets past the pilot, and proves its return.<\/p> <div class=\"people\"> <div class=\"p\"><b>Carina Hira<\/b><span>Partner &middot; Finance Effectiveness Practice Leader<\/span><a href=\"mailto:chira@cfgi.com\">chira@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"p\"><b>Sri Kumar<\/b><span>Partner &middot; Insurance Industry SME<\/span><a href=\"mailto:skumar@cfgi.com\">skumar@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"p\"><b>Nick Bondi<\/b><span>Managing Director &middot; Insurance &amp; AI SME<\/span><a href=\"mailto:nbondi@cfgi.com\">nbondi@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div> <div class=\"p\"><b>Ryan Walters<\/b><span>Senior Manager &middot; Insurance &amp; AI SME<\/span><a href=\"mailto:rwalters@cfgi.com\">rwalters@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"getpaper\"> <div class=\"shell\"> <div class=\"gp-inner\"> <span class=\"cat\">The Full Presentation<\/span> <h2>Get the full presentation<\/h2> <p>This piece distills it. The presentation has the rest: the full data behind the capacity ceiling, the lifecycle map of where AI fits and where it shouldn&rsquo;t, and the proven, pilot, and buy calls across the specialty workflow.<\/p> <p>Share a few details and your copy is ready to download.<\/p> <div class=\"gp-form\"> <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www2.cfgi.com\/l\/176152\/2026-11-04\/32gn4f\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:0\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Point of View from CFGI \u00b7 Finance Effectiveness Underwrite More While Touching Less In U.S. specialty insurance, growth is no longer limited by demand. It is limited by capacity \u2014 and intelligent automation is how carriers break through it. 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border:1px solid var(--cyan); background:var(--cyan); color:#050505; font-size:10px; font-weight:800; letter-spacing:0.14em; text-transform:uppercase; transition:180ms ease; white-space:nowrap; } .cfgi-pmocs .btn:hover { background:#fff; border-color:#fff; color:#050505; } @media (max-width:900px) { .cfgi-pmocs .cta-inner { grid-template-columns:1fr; gap:28px; } } @media (max-width:760px) { .cfgi-pmocs .hero-inner { padding:104px 0 58px; } } <\/style> <div class=\"cfgi-pmocs\"> <section class=\"hero\"> <div class=\"hero-inner\"> <div class=\"eyebrow\">Case Study &middot; PMO Services<\/div> <h1>How Phoenix Lighting Simultaneously Executed an Acquisition, Product Expansion, and ERP Transformation in <span class=\"marker\">Seven Months<\/span><\/h1> <p class=\"hero-sub\">A single governed program kept three converging initiatives aligned and on schedule, without disrupting the business.<\/p> <a class=\"hero-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/pmo\/\">Explore CFGI PMO Services &rarr;<\/a> <div class=\"byline\"> <span class=\"who\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/walter_swenson_headshot_nobackground_expanded-removebg-preview-300x213.png\" alt=\"Walter Swenson\"><span><b>Walter Swenson<\/b>Managing Partner, Portfolio Leader<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"who\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ma-headshot-removebg-preview.png\" alt=\"Jonathan Ma\"><span><b>Jonathan Ma<\/b>Managing Director, Engagement Leader<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"who\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/natalie-dudina-headshot.jpeg\" alt=\"Natalie Dudina\"><span><b>Natalie Dudina<\/b>Managing Director, ERP Migration Leader<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"meta\">CFGI PMO Services &middot; October 2026<\/span> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"intro\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <p class=\"lede\">Phoenix Lighting builds fixtures for demanding environments across energy, marine, infrastructure, and heavy industry. As leadership pursued its next stage of growth, three major initiatives converged at once.<\/p> <p>The company set out to acquire Rig-A-Lite, expand its product portfolio with the former Cree Lighting lines, and replace its legacy ERP. Each initiative had a clear strategic purpose. Together, they created a significant execution challenge.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">The Challenge<\/span> <h2>Three growth priorities, one business to keep running<\/h2> <p>Finance leaders needed to support integration while testing the new ERP. Operations teams needed to prepare for new products while fulfilling existing orders. Decisions about shared services and organizational responsibilities affected both integration plans and system readiness.<\/p> <p>Success depended on understanding how a decision, delay, or resource constraint in one initiative would affect the others, and acting before it disrupted execution. Phoenix engaged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/pmo\/\">CFGI&rsquo;s PMO Services<\/a> to bring that enterprise view and the hands-on leadership needed to move the work forward.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec alt\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">The Approach<\/span> <h2>Connecting strategy to an executable program<\/h2> <p>CFGI established a unified program structure across eight integrated workstreams, connecting transaction milestones, product readiness, ERP deployment, and operating-model decisions in one view. The PMO made ownership and dependencies explicit, giving Phoenix leadership a shared understanding of what needed to happen, who was accountable, and which decisions required attention.<\/p> <p>Executive reporting and recurring governance forums translated detailed workstream activity into priorities, risks, and actions. Leadership could assess competing demands on the same people and resolve issues with visibility into the broader program, while workstream teams could see how their deliverables affected other teams and the company&rsquo;s critical milestones. CFGI paired this coordination with direct support across the underlying work.<\/p> <div class=\"grid-lead\"> <span class=\"gl-cat\">How the Work Happened<\/span> <h3>Four focus areas, one connected plan<\/h3> <p>Within that structure, CFGI led hands-on delivery across four focus areas, each tied back to the shared milestones, owners, and dependencies the PMO was leading.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"s-grid\"> <div class=\"s-card\"><span class=\"sc-cat\">Transaction &amp; Product Expansion<\/span><h3>Diligence through commercial launch<\/h3><p>Commercial diligence, licensing negotiations, and financial modeling for the former Cree Lighting product lines. Interviews with suppliers, customers, and sales representatives brought market perspective into revenue planning, connected to inventory and asset transitions, manufacturing readiness, and launch requirements.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"s-card\"><span class=\"sc-cat\">ERP Readiness &amp; Deployment<\/span><h3>From pilot to go-live<\/h3><p>Readiness assessments, Conference Room Pilot coordination, and user acceptance testing, plus cutover and hypercare planning, connecting system deployment to the readiness of the people and processes that would operate it.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"s-card\"><span class=\"sc-cat\">Organizational Alignment<\/span><h3>Decision rights &amp; shared services<\/h3><p>Working sessions on decision rights, accountability, and shared-service models. Those decisions informed how the expanded organization would work and who would own execution across entities.<\/p><\/div> <div class=\"s-card\"><span class=\"sc-cat\">Integration &amp; Transition Planning<\/span><h3>Day 1 through Day 100<\/h3><p>Day 1 through Day 100 plans and enterprise transition roadmaps translated integration objectives into sequenced activities, responsibilities, and communications.<\/p><\/div> <\/div> <p style=\"margin-top:34px;\">Senior CFGI practitioners remained embedded alongside Phoenix leadership throughout the engagement. As priorities shifted, they brought context across the workstreams to help teams assess the implications, resolve dependencies, and maintain momentum.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">The Outcome<\/span> <h2>Delivering the milestones and building execution capacity<\/h2> <p>Phoenix completed the Rig-A-Lite acquisition, integrated the former Cree Lighting product lines, and successfully deployed Microsoft Dynamics Business Central. The ERP deployment established a platform to support shared services, continued growth, and future acquisitions. The integrated program also gave Phoenix clearer ownership, defined decision-making processes, and transition plans spanning the organizational and operational changes.<\/p> <p>These capabilities extend beyond the immediate milestones. Future initiatives can draw on an established governance framework, clearer accountability, and a proven approach to coordinating change across the business.<\/p> <div class=\"pquote\"> <span class=\"pq-logo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Phoenix-DxD-Logo_color.jpg\" alt=\"Phoenix Lighting \u2014 Durability by Design\"><\/span> <p>&ldquo;The CFGI team brought the structure, discipline, and hands-on leadership needed to manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously while maintaining momentum across the organization.&rdquo;<\/p> <cite><b>Rick Rosser<\/b> &middot; CEO, Phoenix Lighting<\/cite> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"sec alt\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Why It Matters<\/span> <h2>Making complex growth executable<\/h2> <p>Growth companies frequently need to acquire businesses, expand products, modernize systems, and redesign operations on overlapping timelines. The execution challenge sits at the intersection of those initiatives: shared leaders, competing resource demands, and decisions with consequences across the business.<\/p> <p>Phoenix&rsquo;s experience demonstrates the value of connecting those priorities through a PMO with both enterprise visibility and delivery experience. Integrated planning exposes dependencies. Clear accountability moves work forward. Readiness activities connect milestones to operational requirements. Executive governance brings unresolved trade-offs to the people empowered to decide.<\/p> <p>CFGI&rsquo;s PMO Services team brings these capabilities to acquisitions, integrations, carve-outs, ERP transformations, IPO readiness, and operating-model changes, working alongside client leadership and CFGI specialists in Transaction Advisory and Finance Effectiveness to connect technical work with the decisions and execution required to deliver business outcomes.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"cta\"> <div class=\"shell cta-inner\"> <div> <h2>When major growth initiatives converge, make them executable.<\/h2> <p>CFGI helps leadership turn competing demands into a coordinated, executable program. Connect with our PMO Services team to discuss your next transformation.<\/p> <\/div> <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/pmo\/\">Explore PMO Services &rarr;<\/a> <\/div> <\/section> <\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case Study \u00b7 PMO Services How Phoenix Lighting Simultaneously Executed an Acquisition, Product Expansion, and ERP Transformation in Seven Months A single governed program kept three converging initiatives aligned and on schedule, without disrupting the business. 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<div class=\"pr-breadcrumb\"><span class=\"eyebrow\">Newsroom &mdash; Press Release<\/span><\/div> <div class=\"pr-meta\"><span>October 7, 2026<\/span><span class=\"dot\"><\/span><span>Boston, MA<\/span><\/div> <h1>CFGI announces acquisition of BAO Consulting Group, enhancing Dallas market presence<\/h1> <p class=\"pr-deck\">Joining forces creates opportunities to deepen relationships, broaden services, and expand market presence.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"pr-body\"> <div class=\"pr-col\"> <p class=\"pr-dateline\"><strong>Boston, MA, October 7, 2026<\/strong> &mdash; <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/\">CFGI<\/a>, a global accounting and business advisory firm, announced the acquisition of BAO Consulting Group (BAO), a highly complementary organization with shared expertise across Office of the CFO services and a client-first, relationship-driven approach. The combination establishes a meaningful presence for CFGI in the Dallas market and strengthens its ability to serve management teams and private equity sponsors on their most important accounting, transaction, and business improvement priorities.<\/p> <p>Since its founding in 2021, BAO has built a rapidly growing advisory business in Dallas and Houston, with capabilities in accounting and finance advisory, CFO and controller support, financial planning and analysis, finance transformation, systems implementation, and transaction-related services. BAO&rsquo;s growth has been driven by strong client relationships, repeat engagements, and referrals, reflecting the strength of its team and reputation in the market. These strengths are highly complementary to CFGI&rsquo;s existing delivery model and create significant opportunities to broaden the range of services, enhance client experience, and expand the firm&rsquo;s presence across Texas.<\/p> <blockquote class=\"pr-quote\"> <p>&ldquo;Joining CFGI is a natural next step for BAO. We built this firm on strong client relationships and a high-touch approach, and CFGI shares that commitment. Being part of a scaled, international organization gives our team a broader suite of capabilities, greater delivery capacity, and the resources to accelerate our next phase of growth.&rdquo;<\/p> <cite><span class=\"q-name\">Ben Amstein<\/span><span class=\"q-role\">Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer, BAO<\/span><\/cite> <\/blockquote> <blockquote class=\"pr-quote\"> <p>&ldquo;BAO has built an outstanding reputation in Texas through the strength of its people and its client relationships. This is exactly the kind of firm we want to join forces with. We are delighted to welcome the BAO team to CFGI.&rdquo;<\/p> <cite><span class=\"q-name\">Nick Nardone<\/span><span class=\"q-role\">Co-CEO, CFGI<\/span><\/cite> <\/blockquote> <p>Together, CFGI and BAO will be well positioned to pursue larger and more complex engagements, address a broader range of client needs, and create new professional opportunities for employees across the firm.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"pr-about\"> <div class=\"pr-col\"> <div class=\"eyebrow\">About CFGI<\/div> <p>CFGI, a Carlyle and CVC Capital Partners portfolio company, is a leading global independent accounting and business advisory firm to the CFO and Private Equity firms. With a team of over 1,400 professionals serving thousands of clients across 30+ offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, CFGI partners with management teams, finance leaders, and private equity sponsors on their most critical regulatory, transaction, and business improvement priorities. 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Real Estate Leader<\/span> <span class=\"dot\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> <span>September 2026<\/span> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"intro\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <p class=\"lede\">Real estate capital is moving again, and the finance function is being asked to do more than report what happened.<\/p> <p>Management teams and boards now need Finance to evaluate a wider range of outcomes, support transactions before market windows open, connect asset-level performance to capital allocation, and improve productivity without compromising execution or service. The backdrop is constructive but uneven. The NAIOP CRE Sentiment Index read positive but cooling in March 2026; capital is re-engaging; and allocators are negotiating more directly with sponsors, shifting commitments toward separately managed accounts and co-investment sidecars over standard blind-pool terms.<\/p> <p>Underneath it all runs a single mandate: do more with less. Six priorities define the real estate CFO agenda for this environment &mdash; each framed by the question it answers, what Finance owns, and what strong execution looks like.<\/p> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"agenda\"> <div class=\"shell\"> <h2>The agenda, at a glance<\/h2> <p class=\"sub\">Six connected priorities shaping how real estate finance leaders steer through the year ahead. Select any one to jump to it.<\/p> <div class=\"agenda-grid\"> <a class=\"a-card\" href=\"#f-transactions\"><span class=\"cat\">Transactions<\/span><h3>Readiness before urgency<\/h3><p>Transaction readiness has to exist before the opportunity becomes urgent.<\/p><span class=\"go\">Read<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"a-card\" href=\"#f-planning\"><span class=\"cat\">Planning<\/span><h3>One connected plan<\/h3><p>Planning connects scenarios, liquidity, asset performance and capital allocation.<\/p><span class=\"go\">Read<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"a-card\" href=\"#f-productivity\"><span class=\"cat\">Productivity<\/span><h3>Improve without tradeoffs<\/h3><p>Productivity rises without sacrificing quality or simply layering on headcount.<\/p><span class=\"go\">Read<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"a-card\" href=\"#f-ai\"><span class=\"cat\">Artificial Intelligence<\/span><h3>AI, measured<\/h3><p>AI is judged by the capacity, cost savings and quality improvement it creates.<\/p><span class=\"go\">Read<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"a-card\" href=\"#f-performance\"><span class=\"cat\">Finance Function<\/span><h3>Finance as the throughline<\/h3><p>Finance connects operating indicators to forecasts, returns and intervention.<\/p><span class=\"go\">Read<\/span><\/a> <a class=\"a-card\" href=\"#f-controls\"><span class=\"cat\">Risk &amp; Controls<\/span><h3>Controls that evolve<\/h3><p>Controls evolve alongside new capital channels, technology and delivery models.<\/p><span class=\"go\">Read<\/span><\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"focus\" id=\"f-transactions\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Transactions<\/span> <h2>Readiness before urgency<\/h2> <p class=\"q\">Is Finance positioned to move when the market does?<\/p> <p>A reopening transaction market quickly exposes the gap between strategic interest and execution readiness. Wanting to do a deal is not the same as being able to execute one, and that gap only becomes visible once diligence, valuation and reporting are already underway. New capital vehicles, acquisitions, dispositions, refinancings, recapitalizations and possible public-market activity each create demands across accounting, valuation, reporting, controls, diligence and integration.<\/p> <p>Readiness is not a binder prepared for a theoretical transaction. It is a maintained capability: auditable information, a defensible forecast, current entity and asset data, clear accounting positions, a scalable close, established governance and a realistic integration plan. The CFO should know which readiness gaps could delay a deal, reduce negotiating leverage or weaken confidence among investors and lenders.<\/p> <div class=\"lfocus\"><span class=\"lf-label\">Leadership focus<\/span><span class=\"lf-verbs\">Prepare &middot; Finance &middot; Execute.<\/span><span class=\"lf-text\">Maintain a short readiness agenda tied to the company&rsquo;s most plausible capital and transaction paths.<\/span><\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"focus alt\" id=\"f-planning\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Planning<\/span> <h2>One connected plan<\/h2> <p class=\"q\">How should the company plan when the range of outcomes remains unusually wide?<\/p> <p>A single annual budget is a weak decision tool in a market shaped by rates, refinancing timing, leasing, supply, policy and sector divergence. Management needs scenarios that show not only what could happen, but what the company would do in response.<\/p> <p>The strongest planning models link property-level assumptions to enterprise cash flow, liquidity, covenant capacity and capital allocation. They also distinguish controllable operating drivers from external variables. This allows leadership to update decisions as conditions change without rebuilding the entire analysis each time.<\/p> <div class=\"lfocus\"><span class=\"lf-label\">Leadership focus<\/span><span class=\"lf-verbs\">Model &middot; Allocate &middot; Adapt.<\/span><span class=\"lf-text\">Establish a base case and a limited set of decision-relevant scenarios, with triggers that change financing, investment or operating actions.<\/span><\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"focus\" id=\"f-productivity\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Productivity<\/span> <h2>Improve without tradeoffs<\/h2> <p class=\"q\">How can organizations reduce costs while improving quality?<\/p> <p>Real estate owners and operators face mounting pressure to control costs while occupants and investors expect faster response times, clearer real-time reporting and more consistent service levels. The challenge is not simply to spend less. It is to improve the economics of operating assets and delivering services without compromising quality, responsiveness or performance.<\/p> <p>That same discipline should apply within Finance. CFOs should examine where senior professionals are performing low-value tasks, where scarce expertise is needed only periodically, where fragmented processes create rework and where technology investments have not translated into measurable productivity. Headcount should track where the organization creates value, not where reporting complexity happens to increase.<\/p> <p>As portfolios and reporting requirements grow, CFOs should decide deliberately which work stays with internal teams, which can scale through technology and which calls for a specialist partner. The goal is to add capacity without adding permanent cost at the same rate.<\/p> <div class=\"lfocus\"><span class=\"lf-label\">Leadership focus<\/span><span class=\"lf-verbs\">Simplify &middot; Automate &middot; Reallocate.<\/span><span class=\"lf-text\">Identify opportunities to structurally reduce costs while redirecting resources toward activities that create greater value for assets, customers, investors and the enterprise.<\/span><\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"focus alt\" id=\"f-ai\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Artificial Intelligence<\/span> <h2>AI, measured<\/h2> <p class=\"q\">Can AI help improve quality while reducing the cost to serve?<\/p> <p>The most consequential opportunity from AI may not be a single use case. It may be the ability to change the traditional relationship between cost, capacity and quality. Done well, AI can automate routine work, resolve inquiries faster, identify issues earlier and improve forecasting, allowing employees to spend more time on activities requiring judgment or human interaction &mdash; increasing capacity and improving service without increasing resources at the same rate.<\/p> <p>Finance should therefore push the AI conversation beyond experimentation. Where is AI actually removing work? How much capacity is being created? Is cycle time improving? Are errors declining? And are technology and service-provider investments producing measurable economic returns? The foundation still matters: unreliable definitions, inconsistent property data and poorly integrated systems will limit every use case built on top of them, and governance should progress with the use case.<\/p> <div class=\"lfocus\"><span class=\"lf-label\">Leadership focus<\/span><span class=\"lf-verbs\">Automate &middot; Measure &middot; Reinvest.<\/span><span class=\"lf-text\">Prioritize AI use cases based on measurable productivity and quality improvement, then redirect the capacity created toward higher-value work.<\/span><\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"focus\" id=\"f-performance\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Finance Function<\/span> <h2>Finance as the throughline<\/h2> <p class=\"q\">Is Finance turning financial and operating information into action?<\/p> <p>Finance has a unique view across assets, capital and enterprise performance. The function can help operating teams understand which changes in occupancy, leasing velocity, concessions, tenant retention, revenue, expenses, service levels or capital projects are actually driving forecast variance and return outcomes. That requires more than increasing the number of KPIs: measures should have common definitions, accountable owners and a clear relationship to value.<\/p> <p>Importantly, cost and quality should not be evaluated independently. A lower operating cost that weakens retention, service or asset performance may not represent productivity at all. Reporting should distinguish a descriptive signal from a leading indicator and make the next management action visible.<\/p> <div class=\"lfocus\"><span class=\"lf-label\">Leadership focus<\/span><span class=\"lf-verbs\">Measure &middot; Diagnose &middot; Improve.<\/span><span class=\"lf-text\">Build performance routines around a focused set of operating and financial drivers and close the loop between variance analysis, intervention and forecast updates.<\/span><\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"focus alt\" id=\"f-controls\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"cat\">Risk &amp; Controls<\/span> <h2>Controls that evolve<\/h2> <p class=\"q\">Can the control environment keep pace with the business?<\/p> <p>New entities, investor channels, transactions, outsourced processes and AI-enabled workflows can change the company&rsquo;s risk profile before the control framework catches up. Controls designed for a simpler organization may become manual, duplicative or incomplete as the business evolves.<\/p> <p>CFOs should treat controls as part of operating-model design, not as a compliance overlay added afterward. This includes clear accountability for third parties, technology access and change management, data lineage, model validation, cybersecurity coordination and the reporting implications of new structures.<\/p> <div class=\"lfocus\"><span class=\"lf-label\">Leadership focus<\/span><span class=\"lf-verbs\">Govern &middot; Control &middot; Respond.<\/span><span class=\"lf-text\">Reassess key risks when the business model changes, embed controls into redesigned workflows and test whether issues can be detected early enough to matter.<\/span><\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"close\"> <div class=\"measure\"> <span class=\"eyebrow\">The through-line<\/span> <h2>The CFO as an architect of readiness<\/h2> <p>The real estate CFO&rsquo;s mandate is expanding at precisely the moment when organizations are trying to control cost and complexity. Finance is being asked to help the organization prepare for transactions, allocate capital, improve productivity, adopt AI and technology, strengthen operating performance and manage an evolving risk environment.<\/p> <p>The answer is not for Finance to own every issue. It is for Finance to help create the information, processes, economics and governance that allow the enterprise to make consequential decisions with confidence. A useful test is whether Finance can answer six questions quickly.<\/p> <div class=\"test\"> <span class=\"t-head\">The six-question readiness test<\/span> <ol> <li>Are we transaction-ready?<\/li> <li>Can we model the decisions that matter?<\/li> <li>Where can we structurally reduce cost without sacrificing quality?<\/li> <li>Is AI actually creating capacity or improving the economics of delivery?<\/li> <li>Are operating insights changing action?<\/li> <li>Can the control environment keep pace?<\/li> <\/ol> <\/div> <p style=\"margin-top:34px;\">Where the answer is no, the CFO has a focused transformation agenda &mdash; one rooted in the outcomes the business needs to achieve rather than transformation for its own sake.<\/p> <div class=\"author\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/kyle-bolden-headshot-removebg-preview-300x300.png\" alt=\"Kyle Bolden\"> <div> <div class=\"a-label\">About the author<\/div> <h3>Kyle Bolden<\/h3> <p class=\"a-title\">Partner &nbsp;|&nbsp; Real Estate Industry Leader, CFGI<\/p> <p>Kyle Bolden leads CFGI&rsquo;s Real Estate practice, working alongside CFOs and finance teams to build the readiness, visibility and execution capacity real estate organizations need to move when the market does.<\/p> <a class=\"connect\" href=\"mailto:kbolden@cfgi.com\">Connect &rarr;<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"cta\"> <div class=\"shell cta-inner\"> <div> <h2>Build readiness. Unlock value. Move when the market does.<\/h2> <p>CFGI helps real estate finance leaders prepare for transactions, sharpen planning and capital allocation, improve productivity, and design controls that keep pace with growth.<\/p> <\/div> <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/real-estate\/\">Explore Real Estate &rarr;<\/a> <\/div> <\/section> <\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insights \u00b7 Real Estate Building finance for what comes next The real estate CFO agenda: creating readiness, visibility and operating leverage for the next cycle. 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padding-bottom: 52px; }\n    .cfgi-ai-tl .hero h1 { font-size: clamp(48px, 13vw, 72px); }\n    .cfgi-ai-tl .section, .cfgi-ai-tl .section-alt, .cfgi-ai-tl .section-dark, .cfgi-ai-tl .impact-band, .cfgi-ai-tl .final-cta { padding: 72px 0; }\n    .cfgi-ai-tl .squeeze-grid, .cfgi-ai-tl .offer-grid, .cfgi-ai-tl .bench-grid, .cfgi-ai-tl .stat-trio, .cfgi-ai-tl .maturity-grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }\n    .cfgi-ai-tl .challenge { grid-template-columns: 1fr; gap: 12px; }\n    .cfgi-ai-tl .cta-inner { grid-template-columns: 1fr; gap: 32px; }\n    .cfgi-ai-tl .dark-panel { padding: 36px 28px; }\n    .cfgi-ai-tl .image-panel-copy { padding: 0 28px 30px; }\n  }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"cfgi-ai-tl\">\n\n  <section class=\"hero\">\n    <div class=\"hero-inner\">\n      <div class=\"hero-kicker\">AI in Finance: Thought Leadership<\/div>\n      <h1>From <span class=\"marker\">ambition<\/span> to credibility.<\/h1>\n      <p class=\"hero-sub\">The question CFOs ask is no longer &ldquo;can AI work?&rdquo; It is &ldquo;how do we make it real?&rdquo; Between 2022 and 2026, AI became 200 times cheaper, eight times more adopted, and significantly more capable. The runway for waiting is gone.<\/p>\n      <p class=\"hero-meta\">CFGI AI Campaign Team &nbsp;&bull;&nbsp; May 2026<\/p>\n      <div class=\"hero-ctas\">\n        <a class=\"btn btn-outline\" href=\"#where-to-start\">Find where to start<\/a>\n        <a class=\"btn btn-outline\" href=\"#entry-offers\">See our entry offers<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section\" id=\"cfo-squeeze\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">The 2026 CFO Moment<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Three pressures now squeeze the CFO seat.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\">AI economics are settled. The question has shifted from &ldquo;can AI do this?&rdquo; to &ldquo;how do we make it real?&rdquo; Three compounding forces are driving that urgency across every Finance function.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"squeeze-grid\">\n        <div class=\"squeeze-card\">\n          <span class=\"sq-num\">01<\/span>\n          <h3>Process Scalability<\/h3>\n          <p>Every Finance function hits the same wall. Close cycles, AP exceptions, AR collections, reforecasting, treasury aggregation, and multi-jurisdictional tax compliance all scale super-linearly with growth. The CFO can&rsquo;t hire fast enough, and shouldn&rsquo;t have to.<\/p>\n          <span class=\"sq-who\">Felt by: Controller &bull; FP&A &bull; Tax &bull; Treasury &bull; AP\/AR<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"squeeze-card\">\n          <span class=\"sq-num\">02<\/span>\n          <h3>Data Reliability<\/h3>\n          <p>Inconsistent close data, poor invoice data, fragmented AR, non-traceable forecasts, delayed bank feeds, and tax-light GL data all erode confidence in reported numbers. The expectation is for every number to be validated and explainable.<\/p>\n          <span class=\"sq-who\">Felt by: CFO &bull; Controller &bull; Risk &bull; Audit &bull; Tax<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"squeeze-card\">\n          <span class=\"sq-num\">03<\/span>\n          <h3>Value Realization<\/h3>\n          <p>From cost savings and working-capital actions to forecasting, collections, planning, and tax, value is identified but not consistently realized in the numbers. Pilots and programs without proven impact are being paused.<\/p>\n          <span class=\"sq-who\">Felt by: CFO &bull; Controller &bull; Risk &bull; Audit &bull; Tax<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section-alt\" id=\"no-runway\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">CFGI&rsquo;s Point of View<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Waiting is no longer free.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\">Three compounding shifts in economics, adoption, and capability quietly closed the runway for putting AI to work. Standing still is now a measurable loss.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"challenge-list\">\n        <div class=\"challenge\">\n          <h3>Cost is no longer a defensible reason to delay<\/h3>\n          <p>AI inference costs have fallen roughly 200x since 2022. Every CFO has the budget to act, or needs to find the budget to act. The economics argument is settled. What remains is the execution challenge.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"challenge\">\n          <h3>Being AI-na&iuml;ve is now a flagged risk<\/h3>\n          <p>In 2023, cautious boards asked &ldquo;where do we pilot it?&rdquo; Today, AI-maturity questions surface at deal tables and audit committees. Being AI-na&iuml;ve in 2026 is no longer caution. It is a risk that shows up in valuation conversations.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"challenge\">\n          <h3>The capability objection is gone<\/h3>\n          <p>Frontier AI models now outperform human experts on domain benchmarks. The constraint is no longer model capability. It is the operating model around it. The race has moved to who can actually run AI in the data flows and controls that Finance is built on.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"challenge\">\n          <h3>AI in Finance is judged in five real places<\/h3>\n          <p>Not in a lab. In your close, your journals, your audit, your regulator, and the person who signs the number. If AI cannot hold up in those five places, the rest of it does not matter. That is where CFGI focuses.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section\" id=\"benchmarks\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">Published outcomes<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Three numbers worth taking into a board conversation.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\">Published outcomes from AI in Finance have moved past anecdotal. Across third-party research, three numbers keep showing up.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"stat-trio\">\n        <div class=\"stat-card\">\n          <strong>50&ndash;65%<\/strong>\n          <p>Cycle time reduction in transactional Finance: procure-to-pay, reconciliations, and the close, where AI proves it can run in production.<\/p>\n          <span class=\"stat-source\">McKinsey, IBM IBV<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"stat-card\">\n          <strong>20&ndash;40%<\/strong>\n          <p>Improvement in forecast accuracy when AI removes the spreadsheet consolidation that absorbs most of the planning cycle.<\/p>\n          <span class=\"stat-source\">BCG, IBM IBV<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"stat-card\">\n          <strong>25&ndash;30%<\/strong>\n          <p>Operating cost reduction in collections, treasury, and tax compliance, durable only when governance is built in from day one.<\/p>\n          <span class=\"stat-source\">C&R, Ripple, SuperAGI<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"impact-band\" id=\"by-function\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"impact-inner\">\n        <div>\n          <div class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"color:var(--cyan);\">How it lands by function<\/div>\n          <h2 class=\"section-title\" style=\"color:#fff;\">Each Finance function has its own AI economics.<\/h2>\n          <p class=\"lede-light\">Speed pays back first in transactional work. Quality and value compound in judgment-heavy work. Here is where the published numbers fall.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bench-grid\">\n          <div class=\"bench-card\"><span class=\"b-label\">P2P<\/span><strong>50&ndash;65%<\/strong><div class=\"b-anchor\">Faster request-to-pay cycle<\/div><div class=\"b-source\">McKinsey 2024<\/div><\/div>\n          <div class=\"bench-card\"><span class=\"b-label\">R2R<\/span><strong>7.5 days<\/strong><div class=\"b-anchor\">Off the financial close cycle<\/div><div class=\"b-source\">MIT Sloan 2025<\/div><\/div>\n          <div class=\"bench-card\"><span class=\"b-label\">FP&amp;A<\/span><strong>20&ndash;40%<\/strong><div class=\"b-anchor\">Improvement in forecast accuracy<\/div><div class=\"b-source\">BCG 2024<\/div><\/div>\n          <div class=\"bench-card\"><span class=\"b-label\">O2C<\/span><strong>29%<\/strong><div class=\"b-anchor\">Reduction in Days Sales Outstanding<\/div><div class=\"b-source\">IBM 2024<\/div><\/div>\n          <div class=\"bench-card\"><span class=\"b-label\">Tax<\/span><strong>60%<\/strong><div class=\"b-anchor\">Less time on manual tax preparation<\/div><div class=\"b-source\">Gartner 2024<\/div><\/div>\n          <div class=\"bench-card\"><span class=\"b-label\">Treasury<\/span><strong>30%<\/strong><div class=\"b-anchor\">Improvement in cash flow forecasting<\/div><div class=\"b-source\">Ripple 2024<\/div><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section-alt\" id=\"maturity\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">AI Maturity<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">The 72% tracking ROI aren&rsquo;t evenly distributed.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\">The bulk of Finance functions today sit in early-to-middle stages of AI maturity, running pilots and selectively automating workflows, but not yet integrating AI across the function. The story below is where most clients are, and where the leaders are going.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"maturity-grid\">\n        <div class=\"maturity-card\"><span class=\"m-label\">Stage 1<\/span><h4>Awareness<\/h4><p>AI is discussed but there is no strategy. Pilots are fragmented and uncoordinated.<\/p><div class=\"m-ex\">A few analysts use ChatGPT; leadership has not endorsed AI formally.<\/div><\/div>\n        <div class=\"maturity-card\"><span class=\"m-label\">Stage 2<\/span><h4>Experimentation<\/h4><p>Teams run pilots on low-risk, narrowly scoped use cases with clear success criteria.<\/p><div class=\"m-ex\">AI tried on invoice classification or reconciliations in one business unit.<\/div><\/div>\n        <div class=\"maturity-card active\"><span class=\"m-label\">Stage 3: Most clients today<\/span><h4>Operational<\/h4><p>AI is embedded in selected workflows with measurable outcomes. Governance begins to form.<\/p><div class=\"m-ex\">Used in close, expense reporting, or fraud detection. Responsible AI policy is drafted.<\/div><\/div>\n        <div class=\"maturity-card\"><span class=\"m-label\">Stage 4<\/span><h4>Integrated<\/h4><p>AI is integrated across Finance with clear ownership, policies, and outcome measurement.<\/p><div class=\"m-ex\">Embedded in ERP, treasury, forecasting, compliance; ROI tracked systematically.<\/div><\/div>\n        <div class=\"maturity-card\"><span class=\"m-label\">Stage 5<\/span><h4>Transformational<\/h4><p>AI is part of the company&rsquo;s DNA, driving strategy and new business models.<\/p><div class=\"m-ex\">CFO uses AI for M&A modeling, predictive cash, real-time risk. CAIO + CFO co-lead AI.<\/div><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <p style=\"margin-top:28px;color:#555b60;font-size:14px;\">Moving from Operational to Integrated is where the next two to three years of Finance AI investment will be decided. CFGI engages clients at every stage.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section\" id=\"why-cfgi\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"proof-row\">\n        <div class=\"image-panel\" style=\"--card-img:url('https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1551288049-bebda4e38f71?auto=format&fit=crop&w=1200&q=80')\">\n          <div class=\"image-panel-copy\">\n            <div class=\"kicker\">Why CFGI<\/div>\n            <h3>Finance-native. AI-capable. No audit restrictions.<\/h3>\n            <p>Most firms force a choice: AI advisors who don&rsquo;t know Finance, or Finance advisors who don&rsquo;t know AI. CFGI is built differently. We stay with clients across the full seven-stage journey, not just the strategy phase.<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"dark-panel\">\n          <h2>An extension of your team. Not a <span class=\"marker\" style=\"color:#fff;\">vendor<\/span>.<\/h2>\n          <ul class=\"proof-list\" style=\"margin-top:32px;\">\n            <li><strong>Finance-native expertise<\/strong>We speak the controller&rsquo;s language and deploy the technology through the same teams. We know what a CFO defends, what an auditor signs, and how a close actually runs.<\/li>\n            <li><strong>Independent of vendors<\/strong>No reseller margin. No lock-in. We sit between you and the AI ecosystem, picking the right tools for your stack and running them inside your function, accountable only to your outcome.<\/li>\n            <li><strong>CFGI + Anthropic partnership<\/strong>Our partnership with Anthropic means we ship production AI faster, with safety and controls built in, on a Finance-specific roadmap including reconciliation, close, and FP&A agents.<\/li>\n            <li><strong>Responsible AI by design<\/strong>Audit-ready governance, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and SOX-aligned controls from day one, not retrofitted after the pilot. An AI capability your CFO can defend and your auditor can sign off on.<\/li>\n            <li><strong>Across all seven stages<\/strong>From AI readiness assessment and use-case prioritization through build, deployment, governance, and value measurement, we don&rsquo;t advise and leave. We stay through the outcome.<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section-alt\" id=\"entry-offers\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">Low-friction entry offers<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Start where you are. We meet you there.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\">Every first engagement is scoped to weeks, not quarters, with a tangible deliverable at the end. The phase your answers cluster in is the right starting point. There is no wrong entry.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"offer-grid\">\n        <div class=\"offer-card\">\n          <span class=\"offer-tag\">01: Diagnose<\/span>\n          <h3>AI Leadership Workshop<\/h3>\n          <p>A focused leadership session preceded by executive alignment interviews and a readiness intake covering AI maturity, Finance pain points, data and technology readiness, and governance posture. CFGI facilitates the working session, maps the art of the possible against your function&rsquo;s reality, and aligns the leadership team on ambition and success measures.<\/p>\n          <ul>\n            <li>Right for you if leadership hasn&rsquo;t aligned on AI vision and priorities<\/li>\n            <li>Right for you if there is no prioritized use-case list or business case yet<\/li>\n            <li>Right for you if governance hasn&rsquo;t been framed<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n          <p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#aaa;margin-bottom:16px;\">You leave with a shared view of where you stand, two or three pilots worth starting, and a defensible activation path your board can stand behind.<\/p>\n          <a class=\"offer-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/contact\/\">Start the conversation &rarr;<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"offer-card\">\n          <span class=\"offer-tag\">02: Design<\/span>\n          <h3>AI Readiness &amp; Operating Model Design<\/h3>\n          <p>Takes your prioritized use cases and builds the operating model that makes them production-ready and audit-defensible. CFGI works alongside Finance leadership, transformation, audit, and risk to design the target operating model, including roles, decision rights, oversight, the Responsible AI governance framework, risk taxonomy, control library, and human-in-the-loop protocols that satisfy SOX and external audit.<\/p>\n          <ul>\n            <li>Right for you if vision is set but you need to design the operating model<\/li>\n            <li>Right for you if you have a prioritized list but need architecture and governance<\/li>\n            <li>Right for you if you&rsquo;re designing roles, data, and decision rights now<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n          <p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#aaa;margin-bottom:16px;\">You leave with a designed, governed, fundable plan ready for the build phase that follows.<\/p>\n          <a class=\"offer-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/contact\/\">Start the conversation &rarr;<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"offer-card\">\n          <span class=\"offer-tag\">03: Deploy<\/span>\n          <h3>AI Use Case Activation<\/h3>\n          <p>CFGI supports the build and deployment of the agents and workflows scoped in design, integrated into your ERP, close, and reporting systems, with human-in-the-loop checkpoints, audit trails, and KPI tracking running from day one. We support implementation, controls validation, change management, and adoption, working alongside your team until the use case is live, governed, and producing measurable outcomes.<\/p>\n          <ul>\n            <li>Right for you if use cases are prioritized and designed and you&rsquo;re ready to build<\/li>\n            <li>Right for you if you have AI in production and need to operate, govern, and scale<\/li>\n            <li>Right for you if your operating model is designed and you need execution help<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n          <p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#aaa;margin-bottom:16px;\">Each successful deployment establishes the foundation and playbook for activating adjacent use cases as you&rsquo;re ready to scale.<\/p>\n          <a class=\"offer-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/contact\/\">Start the conversation &rarr;<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section\" id=\"where-to-start\">\n    <div class=\"shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">Where to start<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Five questions. Three columns. Sixty seconds.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\">Pick the answer that best fits your function today. The column your answers cluster in is the phase to start with.<\/p>\n      <div style=\"overflow-x:auto;margin-top:32px;\">\n        <table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n          <thead>\n            <tr>\n              <th style=\"padding:14px 18px;background:#050505;color:#fff;text-align:left;font-size:11px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;min-width:220px;\">Where Are You Today?<\/th>\n              <th style=\"padding:14px 18px;background:#050505;color:var(--cyan);text-align:left;font-size:11px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;min-width:180px;\">01: Diagnose<\/th>\n              <th style=\"padding:14px 18px;background:#050505;color:var(--cyan);text-align:left;font-size:11px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;min-width:180px;\">02: Design<\/th>\n              <th style=\"padding:14px 18px;background:#050505;color:var(--cyan);text-align:left;font-size:11px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;min-width:180px;\">03: Deploy<\/th>\n            <\/tr>\n          <\/thead>\n          <tbody>\n            <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--line);\">\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;font-weight:700;color:#050505;\">AI vision and leadership alignment<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Different leaders see it differently, with no shared direction.<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Vision is set; we need to design the operating model and governance.<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Vision and design are done; we&rsquo;re ready to build and run AI in production.<\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n            <tr style=\"background:#f9fafb;border-bottom:1px solid var(--line);\">\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;font-weight:700;color:#050505;\">Use-case identification and prioritization<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Still exploring; no prioritized list, no business case yet.<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Prioritized list exists; need architecture and governance design.<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Use cases prioritized and designed; ready to build and deploy.<\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n            <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--line);\">\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;font-weight:700;color:#050505;\">Responsible AI governance and controls<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Not started. We have not framed what governance we need.<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Designing the framework, controls, and policy now.<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Framework is built; operating live governance with controls running.<\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n            <tr style=\"background:#f9fafb;border-bottom:1px solid var(--line);\">\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;font-weight:700;color:#050505;\">Operating model: roles, data, architecture<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Nothing scoped yet; need to understand what AI changes.<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Designing roles, decision rights, data, and architecture now.<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">Operating model is designed; we&rsquo;re running it and need execution help.<\/td>\n            <\/tr>\n            <tr style=\"border-bottom:1px solid var(--line);\">\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;font-weight:700;color:#050505;\">AI in production with measurable outcomes<\/td>\n              <td style=\"padding:16px 18px;color:#555b60;\">We&rsquo;re upstream of this. 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Blue-collar labor gave way to automation, and automation created a role nobody had needed before: the floor supervisor, accountable not for making the product but for making sure the machines making it stayed in control. Eventually those factories went further still, running lean and dark, humans governing rather than executing. Finance is now walking the same path, on a much faster clock.<\/p>\n\n      <p>AI agents are already processing invoices, preparing reconciliations, drafting close commentary, and closing tasks at companies of every size. That is not a pilot anymore; it is production. What most finance organizations have not built yet is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/automated-finance-solutions\/\">the layer between those agents and the financial record<\/a> that decides whether their output can be trusted. That gap is not a technology problem. It is an accountability problem, and it is the single biggest risk sitting inside every AI-assisted close today.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"pullquote\"><p>That gap is not a technology problem. It is an accountability problem, and it is the single biggest risk sitting inside every AI-assisted close today.<\/p><\/div>\n\n      <p>The evidence for what happens without that layer is already public and expensive. In 2012, a single server running unverified code cost Knight Capital $440 million in forty-five minutes, because nothing was watching the automated system closely enough to stop it. In 2021, Zillow wrote down more than half a billion dollars and shut down an entire business line because its pricing algorithm kept running on assumptions the market had already outgrown, with no mechanism forcing a rule refresh. Even the correction stories carry the same lesson from the other direction: Klarna&rsquo;s AI-first customer service model looked like a 700-person efficiency win in early 2024, then Klarna spent the following year quietly rehiring humans once it discovered that removing judgment from the loop entirely was its own failure mode.<\/p>\n\n      <p>The pattern across every one of these cases is the same missing piece: nobody owned the seam between the rules an organization sets and the digital labor executing against them. That seam is a real job, not a dashboard. It requires someone who can ask a different set of questions than a traditional finance manager ever had to: not who missed the deadline, but where the exception rate is trending and why; not who approves this output, but what evidence proves it is reliable enough to clear.<\/p>\n\n      <p>Call that person a Digital Worker Leader. The organizations that build this role first are not simply moving faster. They are building lower exception rates, faster close cycles, stronger audit readiness, and a demonstrably lower cost to serve, because one person governing digital labor correctly can supervise throughput that once required dozens of people. The organizations that skip it are not avoiding the cost. They are deferring it to an audit finding, a control failure, or a diligence process where no one in the room can explain how the AI-assisted close is actually controlled.<\/p>\n\n      <p>This is not a framework we are proposing from the outside. Automated Finance, the execution model we run at CFGI, is building the Digital Worker Leader role directly into how client engagements are staffed, not adding it after the fact. Sentinel, the supervision and rulebook engine inside our Prism platform, already enforces a canonical control contract on every journal entry our automation produces before it reaches a client&rsquo;s general ledger: exact-balance enforcement, a full provenance record, and a design that puts human adjudication at the center of every flagged entry rather than treating it as an afterthought bolted on once something goes wrong. We built the training curriculum for this role in parallel with the platform itself, so the discipline arrives with its job description instead of being invented after the first control gap surfaces. That is the standard we are holding ourselves to before we ask any client to trust it.<\/p>\n\n      <p>The supervision layer is what separates a transformation investment from a control liability. Finance leaders spent the last two years asking whether AI belonged in the back office. That question is already answered. The one that matters now is who is accountable for it once it is there.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"author\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/david-shebay-headshot-removebg-preview.png\" alt=\"David Shebay\">\n        <div>\n          <div class=\"a-label\">About the author<\/div>\n          <h3>David Shebay<\/h3>\n          <p class=\"a-title\">Partner &nbsp;|&nbsp; Automated Finance, CFGI<\/p>\n          <p>David Shebay leads CFGI&rsquo;s Automated Finance practice, pairing the firm&rsquo;s finance practitioners with AI and supervision technology to execute the Office of the CFO&rsquo;s most critical work &mdash; with the accountability of a CPA and the speed of AI.<\/p>\n          <a class=\"connect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/contact-us-automated-finance\/\">Get in touch &rarr;<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n  <\/article>\n\n  <section class=\"cta\">\n    <div class=\"shell cta-inner\">\n      <div>\n        <h2>Who is accountable for AI in your back office?<\/h2>\n        <p>See how CFGI&rsquo;s Automated Finance builds supervision, provenance, and human adjudication into every AI-assisted close.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/automated-finance-solutions\/\">Explore Automated Finance &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insights \u00b7 Automated Finance The Back Office Just Found Its Floor Supervisor By David Shebay September 2026 4 min read Manufacturing solved this problem fifty years ago. 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Ich kann meine Einwilligung jederzeit mit Wirkung f\u00fcr die Zukunft \u00fcber den Abmeldelink am Ende jeder E-Mail widerrufen.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-field-subgroup  \"><span class=\"elementor-field-option\"><input type=\"checkbox\" value=\"Ich stimme zu, Marketingangebote und Updates (z.B. CFGI Newsletter, Events) von CFGI Germany zu erhalten.\" id=\"form-field-field_71d0bc7-0\" name=\"form_fields[field_71d0bc7]\"> <label for=\"form-field-field_71d0bc7-0\">Ich stimme zu, Marketingangebote und Updates (z.B. 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Execute your finance functions with expertise and state-of-the-art automations.<\/p><div class=\"hero-ctas\"><a class=\"btn btn-light\" href=\"\/contact-us-automated-finance\/\">Talk to an expert<\/a><a class=\"btn btn-light\" href=\"#prism-video\">See it in action<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"af-intro\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><div class=\"af-intro-vid\"><video controls muted playsinline preload=\"metadata\" data-autoplay=\"1\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/02-For-the-last-20-years-v3.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"af-trust\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><div class=\"af-trust-grid\"><div class=\"af-trust-item\"><div class=\"t-lead\">Carlyle <span class=\"dot\">&middot;<\/span> CVC<\/div><div class=\"t-cap\">Backed by two of the industry\u2019s most established investors.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"af-trust-item\"><div class=\"t-lead\">25+ years<\/div><div class=\"t-cap\">Serving the Office of the CFO since 2001.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"af-trust-item\"><div class=\"t-lead\">A global firm, a personal team<\/div><div class=\"t-cap\">Built for large, complex deliverables, without losing the responsiveness of a personal advisor.<\/div><\/div><div class=\"af-trust-item\"><div class=\"t-lead\">30+ offices<\/div><div class=\"t-cap\">One dedicated team, wherever you are.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"section\" id=\"get-started\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><span class=\"eyebrow\">Get started<\/span><h2 class=\"section-title\">Get Started with Automated Finance.<\/h2><div class=\"delivery-grid\" style=\"grid-template-columns:repeat(3,1fr);margin-top:8px;\"><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:240px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:28px;\">Start with your biggest area of value<\/h3><p>AP, close, tax, or FP&amp;A: start with whichever one is causing the most pain today.<\/p><p class=\"gs-best\">Best for<em>A defined, specific pain point.<\/em><\/p><\/div><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:240px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:28px;\">Run the whole finance function<\/h3><p>The full Office of the CFO, built to scale with you.<\/p><p class=\"gs-best\">Best for<em>Teams growing faster than they can hire.<\/em><\/p><\/div><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:240px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:28px;\">Handle a critical moment that changes everything<\/h3><p>A carve-out, an add-on acquisition, or getting ready for exit.<\/p><p class=\"gs-best\">Best for<em>A transaction that just changed what you need to report.<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"section section-tight\" id=\"overview\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><span class=\"eyebrow\">What Automated Finance provides<\/span><h2 class=\"section-title\">Accurate reporting, forecasting, and insight, delivered as a continuous service.<\/h2><p class=\"lede\">Finance is core to how your business creates value. We are proud to support today\u2019s Office of the CFO with the reporting, forecasting, and KPIs that matter most. Backed by decades of hands-on experience and modern data technology, our dedicated, onshore team helps you realize value from day 1.<\/p><div class=\"delivery-grid\" style=\"grid-template-columns:repeat(4,1fr);margin-top:24px;\"><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:230px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:26px;\">Trusted Outputs<\/h3><p>Process works for any ERP and level of data maturity, with every output reviewed and verified by a CFGI CPA or domain expert.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:230px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:26px;\">Cost Savings<\/h3><p>Meaningful savings on total finance cost, dropping straight to EBITDA.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:230px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:26px;\">Modular, Flexible, Conflict-Free<\/h3><p>Start with one process or take on most of the functions under the CFO from day one.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:230px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:26px;\">Accelerating the Transformation<\/h3><p>We execute in weeks, not quarters, without the ramp-up of a typical internal build.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <\/div> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-751acd5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"751acd5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>.cfgi-industry-page .layer:last-child{background:#fff;color:inherit;}.cfgi-industry-page .layer:last-child p{color:#6f7478;}<\/style> <div class=\"cfgi-industry-page\"> <section class=\"prism-band\" id=\"prism-video\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><div class=\"prism-cols\"><div><span class=\"eyebrow\">Powered by AI<\/span><h2 class=\"section-title\" style=\"margin-bottom:28px;\">Your AI-native command center.<\/h2><ul class=\"prism-points\"><li><b>Real-time visibility.<\/b> Every process, every integration, one dashboard.<\/li><li><b>Built-in controls.<\/b> A CPA signs off at every control point, not after the fact.<\/li><li><b>Audit-ready by default.<\/b> Documentation and exception logs are always current.<\/li><\/ul><a class=\"btn btn-light\" href=\"\/contact-us-automated-finance\/\">What can it do for you?<\/a><\/div><div class=\"prism-vid\"><video controls muted playsinline preload=\"metadata\" data-autoplay=\"1\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/What-is-PRISM-Video-PRISM.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"section\" id=\"assurance\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><span class=\"eyebrow\">Trust &amp; assurance<\/span><h2 class=\"section-title\">From your data to a finished close.<\/h2><p class=\"lede\">Automated controls and expert human review combine for full assurance, thanks to our proprietary AI-native platform.<\/p><div class=\"layer-grid\"><div class=\"layer\"><h4>Best-in-Class Technology &amp; Support<\/h4><p>Source data flows in from your ERP and subledgers. When needed, we can implement the right systems and technologies to match your size, sector, and complexity.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"layer\"><h4>Automation<\/h4><p>Deterministic automation, not AI guesswork. The repeatable process automatically detects and flags all exceptions that are reviewed by our CPAs.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"layer\"><h4>Offering-Aligned Deliverables<\/h4><p>You get consistent, on time deliverables required for each service.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"layer\"><h4>Automated Workflows<\/h4><p>You review and approve, right inside our platform.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"layer\"><h4>Human Expert Review<\/h4><p>Subject matter experts review and sign off on deliverables before anything is sent to you.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"section section-tight\" id=\"outcomes\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><span class=\"eyebrow\">Proof<\/span><h2 class=\"section-title\">Real outcomes for finance teams like yours.<\/h2><div class=\"proof3\"><div class=\"proof-card\"><span class=\"pc-label\">Situation<\/span><p class=\"pc-text\">PE-backed company, 20-day close, no FP&amp;A function.<\/p><span class=\"pc-label\">Outcome<\/span><p class=\"pc-text pc-strong\">5-day close, board pack automated.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"proof-card\"><span class=\"pc-label\">Situation<\/span><p class=\"pc-text\">Pre-IPO company, SOX gap 18 months out.<\/p><span class=\"pc-label\">Outcome<\/span><p class=\"pc-text pc-strong\">Control framework live, audit-ready.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"proof-card\"><span class=\"pc-label\">Client quote<\/span><p class=\"pc-quote\">\u201c[The platform] is the right tool for the finance workload.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"pc-attr\">CVC Technical Review, 2026<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <\/div> <script> (function(){function init(){var v=document.querySelectorAll('.cfgi-industry-page video[data-autoplay]');if(!v.length||!('IntersectionObserver' in window))return;var io=new IntersectionObserver(function(es){es.forEach(function(e){var t=e.target;if(e.isIntersecting&&e.intersectionRatio>=0.5){t.muted=true;var p=t.play();if(p&&p.catch)p.catch(function(){});}else{if(!t.paused)t.pause();}});},{threshold:[0,0.5,1]});v.forEach(function(x){x.muted=true;io.observe(x);});}if(document.readyState==='loading')document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',init);else init();})(); <\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dfe3a1b elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"dfe3a1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cfgi-industry-page\"> <section class=\"section\" id=\"faq\" style=\"background:#f4f5f5;border-top:1px solid #e3e7e9;border-bottom:1px solid #e3e7e9;\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><span class=\"eyebrow\">FAQ<\/span><h2 class=\"section-title\">Common questions.<\/h2><div class=\"af-faq\"><details open><summary>How is Automated Finance different from other options?<\/summary><p>You get a dedicated senior team, not a rotating group of unfamiliar staff. Every deliverable is reviewed and signed off by a CPA before it reaches you, and you can see the full picture in our platform in real time, instead of waiting for a monthly update.<\/p><\/details><details><summary>What\u2019s included in the fixed fee?<\/summary><p>Your fee covers the full scope you choose, whether that\u2019s a single process or your entire finance function, with no surprise hourly charges. If your scope changes, like after an acquisition, we\u2019ll scope that change together before any new work begins.<\/p><\/details><details><summary>How fast can we go live?<\/summary><p>It depends on scope. Starting with a single process typically moves faster than a full Office-of-the-CFO build. You\u2019ll get a specific date on your scoping call, once we understand what you need.<\/p><\/details><details><summary>Do we keep control and approval over the work?<\/summary><p>Yes. CFGI executes the work. Your team keeps every approval, every policy decision, and every sign-off, visible in our platform as it happens.<\/p><\/details><details><summary>Can we start with just one process?<\/summary><p>Yes. Most clients start with the process causing the most pain today, like close or AP, and expand once they see how it works.<\/p><\/details><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"section\" id=\"why-cfgi\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><span class=\"eyebrow\">Why CFGI<\/span><h2 class=\"section-title\">A seamless extension of your team.<\/h2><p class=\"lede\">We help you achieve your finance, accounting, and operational goals by functioning as an extension of your team, dedicated to solutions that keep generating value long after implementation.<\/p><div class=\"delivery-grid\" style=\"grid-template-columns:repeat(4,1fr);margin-top:24px;\"><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:250px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:24px;\">Talent &amp; Technical Expertise<\/h3><p>With Big Four experience, our professionals provide all the expertise of a large national office and the attentiveness of a boutique firm to support CFOs through their most complex accounting challenges.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:250px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:24px;\">Client-Focused Culture<\/h3><p>We focus on client service through high-quality performance and clear communication. With flexible, responsive staffing models that move faster than traditional capabilities, our team is your trusted advisor.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:250px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:24px;\">Cost-Effective<\/h3><p>The experience of a dedicated team combined with competitive fixed pricing deliver unmatched value. We scale to any size, scope, and duration to fit the needs of your engagement.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"delivery-card\" style=\"min-height:250px;\"><h3 style=\"font-size:24px;\">A dedicated onshore team that stays with you.<\/h3><p>The same senior team from day one through every close, no rotation and no handoffs, so you never have to re-explain your business.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"section\" id=\"leader\" style=\"background:#fff;\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><span class=\"eyebrow\">Leadership<\/span><h2 class=\"section-title\">Run by people who\u2019ve done your job.<\/h2><div class=\"contact-grid\"><div class=\"contact-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/david-shebay-headshot-removebg-preview.png\" alt=\"David Shebay\"><div><h3>David Shebay<\/h3><p class=\"title\">Partner &nbsp;|&nbsp; Automated Finance<\/p><p class=\"cred\">CPA<\/p><div class=\"contact-meta\"><a href=\"mailto:dshebay@cfgi.com\">dshebay@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div><a class=\"connect-link\" href=\"mailto:dshebay@cfgi.com\">Connect<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"contact-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/laura-hammer-headshot-removebg-preview.png\" alt=\"Laura Hammer\"><div><h3>Laura Hammer<\/h3><p class=\"title\">Partner<\/p><p class=\"cred\">CPA, Technical Accounting<\/p><div class=\"contact-meta\"><a href=\"mailto:lhammer@cfgi.com\">lhammer@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div><a class=\"connect-link\" href=\"mailto:lhammer@cfgi.com\">Connect<\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"contact-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bryan_seck_headshot-removebg-preview.png\" alt=\"Bryan Seck\"><div><h3>Bryan Seck<\/h3><p class=\"title\">Partner<\/p><p class=\"cred\">CPA, Transaction Advisory<\/p><div class=\"contact-meta\"><a href=\"mailto:bseck@cfgi.com\">bseck@cfgi.com<\/a><\/div><a class=\"connect-link\" href=\"mailto:bseck@cfgi.com\">Connect<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <section class=\"final-cta\" id=\"contact\"><div class=\"cfgi-shell\"><div class=\"cta-grid\"><div><span class=\"eyebrow\">The ask<\/span><h2>Talk to the partners who run this practice.<\/h2><p>Tell us about your finance function, and we\u2019ll show you what\u2019s possible, with a business case built around your numbers.<\/p><\/div><div><a class=\"btn btn-dark\" href=\"\/contact-us-automated-finance\/\">Start the conversation &rarr;<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> <\/div> <script> (function(){var el=document.getElementById('afRot');if(el){var words=[];try{words=JSON.parse(el.getAttribute('data-words'));}catch(e){words=['Finance'];}var i=0;setInterval(function(){el.classList.add('swap');setTimeout(function(){i=(i+1)%words.length;el.textContent=words[i];el.classList.remove('swap');},380);},2600);}})(); <\/script>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powered by AI AutomatedFinance The accountability of a CPA and the speed of AI. 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Watch Chief Commercial Officer Justin Femmer on stage and in conversation with Cybernetix Ventures, then see how CFGI helps robotics companies scale from founder-led to public company.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"hero-ctas\">\n        <a class=\"btn btn-cyan\" href=\"#featured\">Watch the interview<\/a>\n        <a class=\"btn btn-light\" href=\"#remarks\">Opening remarks<\/a>\n        <a class=\"btn btn-light\" href=\"#robotics\">How we help robotics companies<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"film\" id=\"featured\">\n    <div class=\"cfgi-shell\">\n      <span class=\"v-tag\">Featured<\/span>\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">In conversation<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Justin Femmer, in conversation with Cybernetix Ventures.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"v-lede\">Jackson Saunders of Cybernetix Ventures sits down with CFGI Chief Commercial Officer Justin Femmer at Robotics Invest 2026 for a candid conversation on what it takes to build, fund, and scale a robotics company.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"v-frame\">\n        <video controls muted playsinline preload=\"metadata\" data-autoplay=\"1\">\n          <source src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/RoboInvest_Justin_20260706_1.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">\n          Your browser does not support embedded video.\n        <\/video>\n      <\/div>\n      <p class=\"v-cred\">Justin Femmer, Chief Commercial Officer, CFGI, in conversation with Jackson Saunders, Investor, Cybernetix Ventures. Filmed at Cybernetix Robotics Invest 2026.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"film alt\" id=\"remarks\">\n    <div class=\"cfgi-shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">On stage<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Opening remarks from Justin Femmer.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"v-lede\">Justin Femmer opens Robotics Invest 2026, setting the tone for a day focused on the founders and investors shaping the next generation of robotics companies.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"v-frame\">\n        <video controls muted playsinline preload=\"metadata\" data-autoplay=\"1\">\n          <source src=\"https:\/\/www.cfgi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/RI-Opening-Remarks.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">\n          Your browser does not support embedded video.\n        <\/video>\n      <\/div>\n      <p class=\"v-cred\">Justin Femmer, Chief Commercial Officer, CFGI. Opening remarks, Cybernetix Robotics Invest 2026.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section section-tight\" id=\"robotics\">\n    <div class=\"cfgi-shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">How CFGI helps robotics companies<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">From founder-led to public company, at every stage of the journey.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\">Robotics companies face a distinct path: deep technology, capital intensity, long build cycles, and demanding investors. CFGI partners with robotics teams from the earliest founder-led days through venture scale, exit, and life as a public company, so finance is never the thing that slows the mission down.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"stage-grid\">\n        <div class=\"stage\">\n          <span class=\"s-stage\">Founder-led<\/span>\n          <h3>Build the foundation.<\/h3>\n          <ul>\n            <li>Fractional finance leadership<\/li>\n            <li>Accounting and close setup<\/li>\n            <li>Financial modeling and burn planning<\/li>\n            <li>Grant and R&amp;D cost tracking<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"stage\">\n          <span class=\"s-stage\">VC-backed growth<\/span>\n          <h3>Scale with discipline.<\/h3>\n          <ul>\n            <li>Audit readiness and financial reporting<\/li>\n            <li>Board and investor reporting<\/li>\n            <li>409A valuations and equity administration<\/li>\n            <li>Technical accounting and revenue<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"stage\">\n          <span class=\"s-stage\">Exit readiness<\/span>\n          <h3>Prepare for the transaction.<\/h3>\n          <ul>\n            <li>Sell-side and buy-side diligence support<\/li>\n            <li>Transaction readiness and carve-outs<\/li>\n            <li>Quality of earnings preparation<\/li>\n            <li>Deal execution and integration<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"stage\">\n          <span class=\"s-stage\">Public company<\/span>\n          <h3>Operate at public scale.<\/h3>\n          <ul>\n            <li>IPO readiness and SEC reporting<\/li>\n            <li>SOX design and compliance<\/li>\n            <li>Complex technical accounting<\/li>\n            <li>Ongoing controllership support<\/li>\n          <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section section-tight\" id=\"why-cfgi\">\n    <div class=\"cfgi-shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">Why CFGI<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Operators who have done it, not just advised on it.<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"lede\">CFGI is a leading global finance, accounting, and business advisory firm. Our professionals partner with companies on their most critical regulatory, transaction, and transformation initiatives, bringing Big 4 depth without audit restrictions and the pace that high-growth technology companies require.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"why-grid\">\n        <div class=\"why-card\"><h3>Full lifecycle coverage<\/h3><p>One partner from founder-led through public company, so your finance function scales with you instead of restarting at every stage.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"why-card\"><h3>Technology and deep-tech fluency<\/h3><p>Experience with capital-intensive, IP-heavy businesses where R&amp;D accounting, inventory, and long build cycles shape the numbers.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"why-card\"><h3>Investor-ready by default<\/h3><p>Reporting, controls, and diligence built to satisfy VC boards, sponsors, and public market investors from day one.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"why-card\"><h3>Independent and fast<\/h3><p>With no audit conflicts, CFGI moves quickly and objectively alongside your management team, auditors, and advisors.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"why-card\"><h3>Transaction depth<\/h3><p>Hands-on support across capital raises, M&amp;A, carve-outs, and IPOs, from readiness through execution and integration.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"why-card\"><h3>Boston roots, global reach<\/h3><p>Local presence in the heart of the robotics ecosystem, backed by a global team across finance, tax, technology, and risk.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"cta-band\" id=\"connect\">\n    <div class=\"cfgi-shell\">\n      <div class=\"eyebrow\">Let's talk robotics<\/div>\n      <h2 class=\"section-title\">Building something in robotics? 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