CFO · SME mid-market
The mid-market CFO
wakes up to a cost line the board can sign.
Northwake is the daily diagnostic practice for the SME mid-market CFO priced out of legacy day rates. The agents read your AI-spend ROI, cash-conversion drift, and supplier-term exposure every morning and land a cost line your board can sign against — not a dashboard the last vendor left running.
Daily briefings
The three cost lines every morning briefing carries.
What the diagnostic loop reads on your behalf — every morning, before market open — so the cost conversation in your next board draft is anchored to the cost you've actually been running. Not a quarterly retro. Not a vendor pitch deck.
AI-spend ROI
Every line item on the AI-vendor roll-up re-priced against the usage signal the diagnostic loop is already pulling. The cost-of-AI line in your next board draft is anchored to a 30/90/365-day ROI baseline — not the invoice the last vendor left running when the contract lapsed.
Cash-conversion visibility
DSO, DPO, and cash-conversion-cycle telemetry, refreshed against your rolling baseline, lands before the next market open. The segment the diagnostic surfaces is the segment the next LP — or the next board — sees in the morning read, not the segment the last vendor memo wrote down.
Supplier-term drift
Freight, ledger, and SaaS spend re-priced against the peer panel Northwake reads the same morning. The drift shows up tagged to the contract that pays for it — renewal-ready, in carrier names and SKU codes your team can paste into the next vendor call.
Trust
The commitments the next board draft is signed against.
Every Northwake engagement is signed against the same standing commitments — the CFO frame of the trust statement on /about, tuned for the cost line, the audit trail, and the regulated-spend overlay you'll eventually walk.
Cost lines that survive the first audit
Every cost line Northwake surfaces — AI, freight, SaaS, supplier — is reproducible from the underlying record. The audit trail your next auditor walks is the same trail the diagnostic loop writes against from day one. No shadow ledger, no retro-fitted memo, no "trust the dashboard" deflection at quarter-end.
The senior review layer returns at the pressure points
The agents run the continuous, unglamorous work. The senior review layer returns at exactly two pressure points: the AI-spend ROI line the board signs against, and any regulated-spend overlay when a supplier dispute, a contract question, or a sanction-adjacent read comes back to the room.
Records sit inside a single-tenant envelope
Your ERP, freight, ledger, and competitive feeds stay inside your isolation envelope — single-tenant, signed, encrypted, regional placement set per engagement. Nothing leaves your account to train a shared model, and no operator at Northwake pokes through without an explicit, traceable reason.
Next step
Open the intake, or write to us directly.
Most CFO conversations open with the intake — the diagnostic reads off the source systems, the freight lanes, and the regulated-spend overlay your team is already running. If the framing above doesn't match your seat, write to us and the Northwake team replies the same morning.
Northwake · AI-native diagnostic practice for the SME mid-market CFO. Every briefing lands before the next market open.
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