Know what your finance organization should do next.
In minutes, an Executive Finance Assessment — your highest-impact move, why it matters, and the evidence behind it. Independent, and built to defend to your board.
Free Executive Brief in ~5 minutes · anonymous · no account. Full assessment €59, one-time — no subscription.
The one move everything else rests on — automation, planning and a clean listing all depend on it, so none can be bought ahead of it.
Know what your finance organization should do next.
In minutes, an Executive Finance Assessment — your highest-impact move, why it matters, and the evidence behind it. Independent, and built to defend to your board.
Start your Executive Assessment →
Free Executive Brief in ~5 minutes · anonymous · no account. Full assessment €59, one-time — no subscription.
The one move everything else rests on — automation, planning and a clean listing all depend on it.
Three questions, in the order finance leaders actually ask them.
Understand what is changing. Assess what it means for your organisation. Find the partner who can deliver it. Each step answers one question and hands you to the next.
Finance Transformation
The recurring decisions finance leaders face, the journeys that resolve them, and the maturity models that say where you stand — across all nine finance domains.
Explore the research →Executive Assessment
The flagship product. Your organisation's position against peer benchmarks, your highest-impact move, the business case, and the evidence behind it.
Start your Assessment →Transformation Marketplace
A curated network of experienced finance transformation advisors and implementation partners — vetted on merit, never on who pays. Launching shortly.
Find a partner →Underneath the Assessment sits Finance Benchmark Intelligence — the peer and top-quartile models that turn "we should improve" into a number you can defend to a board. And when you have decided technology is part of the answer, Finance Software Intelligence is the independent research library on the market itself.
A board-ready Executive Assessment.
Not a report full of scores and charts — the deliverable a finance-transformation partner would place on your desk. The free Executive Brief shows whether there is something important here and where it sits. The full Executive Assessment names the move, the expected business impact, the sequence, what to wait on, and the independent evidence — in language you can forward, unedited, to your CEO or board.
The expensive mistakes happen before anyone opens a vendor website.
Automating a process nobody documented. Bolting a platform onto an ERP that already did the job. Starting an AI programme on data no one trusts. These are sequencing errors, not selection errors — and no comparison table catches them. Finance Transformation Intelligence is the research library for the decisions that come first.
5 decision archetypes
Each modelled with the conditions that trigger it, the constraints that block it, and how it resolves — including the ones that resolve to "not yet".
Explore the decisions →Sequenced, prerequisite-aware
Every stage names the capability it moves and the maturity it must reach before the next begins. In finance transformation the order is the substance.
See the journeys →The permanent axis
From the operating model to tax, treasury and the AI layer — one governed taxonomy that every article, decision and maturity model is published into.
Browse the domains →Research is the evidence — not the product.
Behind every recommendation is an independent research base on the finance-software market: buyer's guides, evidence-backed rankings, vendor reviews and head-to-head comparisons. You never start with a tool — but when a purchase is warranted, this is how you choose one.
Independent Decision Intelligence for the Office of the CFO.
Before you buy software. Before you hire consultants. Before you launch another transformation. dilynx delivers the decision phase — the structure, prioritization and direction that comes before implementation. It is not a software review site, a vendor directory, a market map, or a consultant you hire.
vs McKinsey · BCG · the Big Four
Arrive at your first engagement already knowing your highest-impact move — so the work starts at value, not discovery. We strengthen consulting; we don't replace it.
vs Gartner
We give you your decision, not the market's map — a recommendation you can act on, not a quadrant.
vs software review sites & vendors
We're independent and take no placement fees — we'll tell you not to buy, which no vendor-funded directory can. Technology is the last mile, never the starting point.
vs ChatGPT & generic AI
Every recommendation is grounded in independent evidence and can be defended to a board — not fluent guessing.
Sometimes we recommend that you do not buy software.
We take no placement fees, and commercial relationships never influence a recommendation. When your process should be standardized first — or you should improve what you already own — we say so, even when it costs us. That is what makes a recommendation you can defend to your board.
A disciplined method — the same inputs always reach the same recommendation.
Independence
No placement fees, no pay-to-play; a recommendation may conclude "do not buy". Our independence →
Traceability
Every grade and figure links to its cited, independent source. See the evidence →
Reproducible method
Deterministic reasoning — the same inputs always produce the same assessment. The methodology →
Disclosed confidence
Confidence is stated and coverage gaps are published — never inferred. Our coverage →
Start your Executive Assessment.
A few questions, a few minutes — your highest-impact move, why it matters, and the evidence behind it.
Begins with a free Executive Brief — about five minutes, anonymous, no account. The full Executive Assessment is €59, one-time.