Why Your Best Financial Analysts Are Quitting (Hint: It’s the Copy-Pasting) The hidden retention crisis in finance teams — and what forward-thinking CFOs are doing about it Last month, a finance director at a Malaysian property conglomerate shared something that stopped me cold. His best financial analyst — ACCA-qualified, sharp, […]

Why We Built an AI That Does Variance Analysis (So Your Team Doesn’t Have To) It is Day 3 of the month-end close. Your P&L shows a massive red flag: General & Administrative (G&A) expenses are up 18% against budget. What happens next is a ritual every finance leader knows […]

Democratizing Data: How to Give Your Non-Technical Teams Access to SQL-Level Insights Picture this scenario: Your Head of Marketing has a brilliant idea for a campaign targeting a specific segment of churned users. To execute it, they need a list of customers who purchased in 2024 but haven’t returned in […]

Why We Built an AI CFO: Because Your Monthly Close Shouldn’t Take 15 Days If you are a Finance Director or CFO in 2026, you likely spend the first two weeks of every month living in “The Gap.” The Gap is that high-stress period between the month ending and the […]

The Modern Guide to Data Consolidation: Snowflake, Databricks, and Lestar.ai Data is only as valuable as your ability to access it. For most organizations, the reality is “Data Silos”—financials in one system, operational logs in another, and sustainability metrics hidden in spreadsheets. Data Consolidation is the process of bringing all […]

Why Your Generative AI Strategy Will Fail Without a Centralized Database We are witnessing a gold rush. Every enterprise, from manufacturing giants to boutique financial firms, is rushing to implement Generative AI. The promise is seductive: instant answers, predictive forecasting, and automated workflows. Yet, despite the investment, many of these […]