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CFO Advisory skill · live

Your senior CFO,
on demand.

Ask anything a 20-year operator would answer in the boardroom — variance, runway, SaaS metrics, GAAP, fundraise readiness — and get a cited, chart-backed answer you can quote in the next board meeting.

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confidence 93%
OpEx — current month
Actual
$4.4M
Budget
$4.1M
Variance
$342K
+8.4%vs plan
YTD miss
$612K
Top drivers
Top OpEx drivers
  1. 1.Software & tools
    $148K·+12.3%
  2. 2.Salaries — Sales
    $96K·+5.8%
  3. 3.Professional services
    $61K·+18.4%
  4. 4.Travel & ent.
    $22K·-9.1%
Top 6 material line items — Feb vs Mar 2026
AccountVariancePctFavorable
Accounts Receivable$26K+77.0%Yes
Subscription Revenue$11K+26.9%Yes
Operating Bank Account$8K+61.8%Yes
Bonuses-$3K—No
Salaries-$2K+54.7%No
Key takeaways
  • Subscription growth is real — four customers drove $19.3K of the favorable variance.
  • Payroll timing anomaly: Raj Mehta's double payment and Q1 bonuses created a $4.8K headwind; monitor April.
  • Cash position improved — AR and bank account both up, signaling healthy collections.
Recommended next steps
Recommended next steps
  • Confirm Raj Mehta's double payment is one-time and update salary run-rate forecast.high
    Flagged as payroll-timing anomaly; affects April forecast accuracy.
  • Re-baseline Software & tools spend in Q+1 if step-up is structural.med
Open the Flux workspace

OpEx missed plan by $342K (+8.4%) in the most recent month.

The overage is concentrated — the top driver alone explains 43% of the miss. Recommend confirming whether the Software & tools step-up is one-time (post-acquisition tooling) or run-rate, then re-baselining the forecast for Q+1 if structural.

flux-analysis:f7925478GL: opex · current month
Open the full Flux dashboard for line-by-line variance
What CFO Advisory does well
Cash, runway, burn
13-week cash forecasts, runway scenarios, covenant watch. Recommends actions when runway tightens.
Variance & commentary
P&L variance vs plan with auto-decomposed drivers. Drafts CFO-quality narrative for the board pack.
SaaS metrics & GAAP
ARR, NRR, Rule of 40, gross margin benchmarking. ASC 606 revenue questions answered with citations.
How it answers

Cited. Chart-backed. Refuses to guess.

01
Ask
In natural finance language. The Controller routes specialty topics to CFO Advisory automatically.
02
Reason
The CFO Advisory skill reads the GL, KPIs, and your policy memory, then drafts the answer with the math shown.
03
Show
Inline chart when confidence is high, citations to GL rows, and a CTA to the deeper dashboard view when relevant.
04
Learn
👍/👎/edit teaches the platform your tone, materiality, and accounting policy over time. Always reviewable on the Memory page.