I spent a decade in institutional finance - investment banking, then a relative value hedge fund. I left because I wanted to build things, not move numbers between Bloomberg screens.
Two startups and a multi-company CFO role later, something clicked.
Finance is the function that sees everything through dollars - every department, every decision, every system eventually shows up in the numbers. It's the natural entry point for building intelligence infrastructure across an entire company.
Not dashboards that only read your ERP. Not another SaaS tool with a monthly fee. Actual infrastructure - connected to everything, defined in code, owned by the founder.
So I built Cai - an AI co-founder. A second brain built on my data, my decisions, my context. Cai sees things I can't, never drops a thread, gets sharper every month.
Then I started deploying the same system for other growth-stage founders.
That's SliceCFO. An intent engineering firm for growth-stage companies, starting with finance.
Three months of hands-on build. Then the founder runs it themselves. No SaaS fees. No vendor lock-in. You own the infrastructure when we're done.
The sweet spot: $5-50M ARR companies where finance complexity has outgrown the bookkeeper but a full-time CFO hire doesn't fit. Founders who are already thinking about systems, not just spreadsheets.
If that sounds like your situation - slicecfo.com