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Here is what I wrote about in the last 12 months:
- Working Capital Warfare
- Tackling CFO Tech Debt
- The Storytelling CFO
- Scaling The Finance Function
- Cashflow Mastery
- Finance Transformation
- The Private Equity CFO
- Crisis Management
- Capital Structure Design
- Corporate Politics
- FP&A Mega Series
What did I miss? What should I cover next?
New for financial services: ready-to-run Claude agent templates for building pitches, conducting valuation reviews, closing the books at month-end, and more.
Install them as plugins in Cowork and Claude Code, or use our cookbooks to run them in production as Managed Agents.
Aaron is right (as usual) and I've been saying this for a year.
Large companies know they can benefit from AI but have 0 ability to do it themselves.
Their options are either traditional consulting shops like McKinsey and Deloitte, which suck ass (respectfully), or agentic SaaS which forces them to migrate off their ERP/CRM to some 16 year old's shitty vibe-coded "AI-native ERP". Not feasible.
AI needs to live on top of and in between your existing software stack. That's why at Varick we NEVER skip the audit - every company is different, with its own business logic, edge cases, and software requirements. You don't get real ROI by bolting generic workflows onto all of that.
Our model:
- spend 4 weeks auditing a department (usually 100s of people)
- spend 4 weeks building workflows that actually move the needle
- deliver and keep building. employee feedback in production trains the agents to be more accurate and autonomous
- by month 6 your entire department is transformed. most manual processes handled, and your team freed up for higher-leverage work
Too many startups are afraid to do an audit because it sounds too much like "consulting". We went all in on this thesis a year ago, and now no one can match the depth of what we surface in that phase.
A quote from one of our customers: "this is 100x better than McKinsey."
Bob Sternfels and the rest of the consulting industry, I'm coming for everything. Varick on top.
@IndianTechGuide It’s not a tech problem. Building apps even to replace entire bureaucrats jobs is too easy but will govt cucks be held accountable for issues reported here? Thats the issue.
@Cmd_Smiles@Polymarket What else do you expect form govt employees? They are retards and money chasing parasites who cover it all u deer “national service” excuse
Path for every successful career
First you get paid for labor
You use labor to earn experience
Then you get paid for experience
You use experience to build expertise
Then you get paid for expertise
You use expertise to build judgment
Then you get paid for your judgment
Anthropic just announced that in February 500 companies were spending $20k pw on Claude ($1m annualized run rate).
Just two months later that number has doubled to 1,000.
Pretty insane
my take is most b2b saas users don’t want a chat interface as their entry point.
they don’t want to ask for things, they want to see them
the real job as the builder is curation and deciding what data and tools show up first
not every platform needs to make you prompt your way to value