Forecast Integrity Gate for Fractional CFO Board Packs

A pre-send integrity gate for independent fractional CFOs before they send forecast updates, board packs, cash runway views, hiring affordability analyses, or cost-cutting recommendations to SME clients. Instead of relying on long-horizon business outcomes, the product ingests the spreadsheet/model, supporting exports, and draft narrative, then extracts concrete claims that can be checked quickly: runway math, burn assumptions, covenant headroom, timing dependencies, hiring affordability, margin bridge logic, and whether the recommendation actually follows from the numbers. AE runs adversarial challenge against those claims using its six-pattern taxonomy, especially premise-conclusion severing, cosmetic confidence, and temporal/transmission blindness. The client-facing output is not 'sound less confident'; it is a cleaner, more defensible pack with unsupported claims removed, assumptions made explicit where material, and an internal audit trail of challenged assertions. Grading happens from versioned forecast files and next actuals snapshots, allowing fast objective checks on forecast drift, broken assumptions, and repeated failure patterns without manual memo-by-memo self-reporting.

A pre-send forecast integrity gate is a strong wedge because fractional CFOs already pay for planning/reporting tools, but still lack a product that protects the credibility of the specific financial claims and recommendations they send to clients.

Still in evaluation (phase: ranked). No verdict yet.