Your board wants AI in the numbers. Your auditor wants to know where it stops.
Four faces of the CFO, eight stages of the finance cycle, held by a two-tier drift lock. The scan tells you where you are; the Line tells you where the machine may run.
For CFOs, procurement leaders and heads of internal audit
We draw your AI Augmentation Line™: the work the machine takes, the decisions your people keep, and the 90-day sequence that lands the value with a trail your auditor can follow. Start with a free ten-minute scan.
No sign-up for the scan. The first 45 minutes of the review are free: a working conversation, not a pitch deck.
Step 1 · Start here
Each scan scores where your function sits today and gives you the first three moves. Then the Line tool draws where AI acts and where you sign, stage by stage.
Four faces of the CFO, eight stages of the finance cycle, held by a two-tier drift lock. The scan tells you where you are; the Line tells you where the machine may run.
Supplier discovery and spend sweeps belong to the machine. Awards, trade-offs and contract changes belong to a named person. The scan and the Line make that boundary explicit.
The audit lifecycle mapped to GIAS on two levels, function and engagement, with the Evidence Lock™ so every AI-assisted step is documented the way the Standard expects.
Also on the Line: Sustainability leaders · EVA³ pledge-to-delivery gap → Brand and marketing · AI Visibility Audit →
Step 2 · How it works
The AI Augmentation Line™ is the methodology that defines, for any function, where AI operates autonomously and where human authority and sign-off are required. The human zone is designed, not left over: gates, waivers and sign-offs are placed deliberately, where money, people or the regulator are touched.
Drafts, sweeps, reconciliations, first passes. High-volume, rule-based, reversible work moves to the AI zone with a log of every action.
Gates, waivers and approvals are placed where money, people or the regulator are touched. The name on the decision is a person's, never a model's.
Every engagement ends in evidence: what moved, by how much, signed by whom. Value only counts when it lands.
Whether it is your own desk, one workflow or the whole function, value moves along the Line the same way. Each altitude opens with a 90-second pitch.
Step 3 · What it costs
Everything the machine can do on its own is free to use. You pay for the sessions where we draw, validate and sign your Line with you.
Your function's score and the first three moves. CFO, CPO or internal audit.
Pick your function →Where your function sits, where the Line should run, and the 90-day sequence. A conversation, not a deck.
Book a review →Three 90-minute signed sessions: Explore, Review, Decide. Your Line drawn stage by stage, validated against your evidence, and signed off by you.
Draw your Line →One structured interview per function head, scored, with a readout the board can act on.
See the engagement letter →Every meeting scored against the Line: who spoke, who decided, what landed. Runs on your own AI key.
See the Coach →Two-day bootcamps for a whole team (£480 per person per day) and consultancy licences are priced on the engagement page.
Step 4 · Proof
Governed AI workflows, a named human sign-off before decisions move, and a trail an audit committee can follow.
Sound optional, captions on. See also the invoice-injection demo: what happens when nobody draws the Line.
“So this isn’t a LLM, this is consulting where and how, in a well governed and controlled environment, to use AI in the process?”
Ben Kayevia LinkedIn, on first reading the method
Who signs this work
35 years across CFO, CPO and CMO transformation; systems credited with £1bn of client savings in a single year. What we have built: the Augmentation Lines™, four scored instruments, the Profiler™, two books, the Consulting School and the Lock Prompt™ Library. A practice, not a platform vendor: the methodology is practised before it is productised.
Read the Billion Bucks stories → · About StoryC →Where AI acts in finance, and where a named human signs, in ninety seconds.
For you, not only your function
Before a function adopts AI, the people in it need to know which working modes the machine should hold for them and which decisions never leave their desk.
Your personal Line: Contribution Compass, Insights Discovery and MBTI triangulated, calibrated by ten questions.
Take the Profiler →Nineteen consulting methodologies, each with its AI-augmentation points, a per-concept navigator and a full prompt library.
Open the School →The inward road and the outward road, each with a free learning programme. Paperbacks £19.99 direct or £15.00 at The Great British Bookshop.
The books wing →Your own coach in every meeting: a brief before, a scorecard after, a development plan at ten meetings. Your transcript never leaves your device.
See the Coach →For consulting firms
The instruments, the Line tools, the School and the locked prompts run on your domain, in your colours, on your methodologies, with your firm's own IP plugged in beside them. White-label delivery with a named human sign-off built into every workflow.
A 45-minute working session: where your function sits today, where the Line should run, and the 90-day sequence to get there. The first 45 minutes are free. No deck, a conversation.