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Finance Executive Assessment

How the Executive Assessment works

The Assessment is the bridge between the two research pillars: it takes what Finance Transformation Intelligence knows about finance change and what Finance Software Intelligence knows about the market, and resolves both against your organisation specifically.

IndependentEvidence-backedReviewed Jul 2026Sources 54Methodology

The method

01
Your organisation's context
02
Benchmark models
03
Transformation decisions
04
Deterministic reasoning
05
Your highest-impact move

Every step draws on governed, cited knowledge — the same knowledge published openly across the research pillars. Nothing in your result comes from a source you cannot inspect, and the same inputs always produce the same recommendation.

What it reasons over

From Transformation

5 decision archetypes

Your context is evaluated against every curated transformation decision at once — including the ones that conclude you should not buy anything. See them →

From Benchmark

6 benchmark models

Your answers are placed against peer and top-quartile distributions, so the gap is sized rather than asserted. See the benchmarks →

From Software

71 vendors, 54 sources

Only once a change is warranted does technology enter — assessed on cited evidence, never on who pays. See the research →

Why you can trust the result

Independence →

It can tell you not to buy

A recommendation may conclude that you should standardize a process, or use what your ERP already does, rather than purchase anything. That outcome costs us money, which is precisely why it is available.

The reasoning is recoverable

Every recommendation traces back through the decision archetype, benchmark and evidence that produced it. If the chain cannot be recovered, the recommendation is not produced.

Executive Finance Assessment

Start your Executive Assessment.

A few questions, about five minutes, anonymous. You receive your highest-impact finance move, the business case, and the evidence behind it.

Begins with a free Executive Brief — about five minutes, anonymous, no account. Full assessment €59, one-time. It complements the research; it does not replace it.