Executive Decision Intelligence · Office of the CFO

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 ~3 minutes · anonymous · no account.

No placement feesMay conclude: don't buyTraceable to published research
Sample · Executive BriefIndependent
A mid-market SaaS company · Technology · $100–250M revenue
Transformation readiness
34/ 100Foundational · Stage 2
Highest-impact move
Start here
Standardise the financial close — before automating it.

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.

Expected business impact · indicative
$5–7m
Cash within reach · one-time
$1–2m
Indicative investment · 24 mo
High confidenceA view we would hold with confidence, on the evidence available.
Every figure traceable to independent researchSee it in full →
A sample Executive Brief · illustrative, from real engine outputs
Executive Decision Intelligence · Office of the CFO

Know what your finance organization should do next.

In minutes, an Executive Finance Assessment — your highest-impact move, why, and the evidence behind it. Independent, and built to defend to your board.

Start your Executive Assessment →

Free Executive Brief in ~3 minutes · anonymous · no account.

Sample · Executive BriefIndependent
A mid-market SaaS company · Technology · $100–250M
Transformation readiness
34/ 100Foundational · Stage 2
Highest-impact move
Start here
Standardise the financial close — before automating it.

The one move everything else rests on — automation, planning and a clean listing all depend on it.

Expected business impact · indicative
$5–7m
Cash within reach · one-time
$1–2m
Investment · 24 mo
High confidenceHeld on the evidence available.
Traceable to independent researchSee it in full →
No placement feesMay conclude: don't buyTraceable to research
How it works

One product. Three moves: assess, research, decide.

The product

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.

See a worked example →

Technology Intelligence · the evidence

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.

A new category

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.

Why you can trust it

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.

How a recommendation is made

A disciplined method — the same inputs always reach the same recommendation.

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Organisation context
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Benchmark models
03
Independent research
04
Deterministic decision logic
05
Executive 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 →

Your next move, in minutes

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 three minutes. Anonymous, no account.