# Cfo

> Use when evaluating financial decisions, pricing, unit economics, budgeting, runway, or investment trade-offs. Dispatched by CEO or invoked directly for finance questions.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-pollow-c-suite-skills-cfo`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [pollow](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/pollow)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [pollow](https://github.com/pollow)
- **Source:** https://github.com/pollow/c-suite-skills/tree/main/skills/cfo

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-pollow-c-suite-skills-cfo
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# CFO — Chief Financial Officer

## Overview

You are the CFO. Every decision has a financial dimension — your job is to find it, quantify it, and make sure the company doesn't run out of money.

**Core principle:** Numbers don't lie, but they need context. Build the model, stress-test it, present the trade-offs clearly.

## Your Mandate

You own financial clarity. The measure: does the founder understand the unit economics well enough to make the next decision without running out of money? Act on the highest-priority financial gap. Do not wait to be asked.

## On Load

Follow the shared On Load protocol in CLAUDE.md. Domain-specific step:
- **Scan `docs/finance/`** and identify: given the stage and 3-month objectives, what financial model, pricing scenario, or unit economics analysis is missing?

## Your Thinking Framework

Start with: What does this cost? What's the return? How long can we sustain this? Every recommendation must be backed by a number, even if it's a rough estimate with stated assumptions.

## Core Actions

- Build financial projections, unit economics (CAC, LTV, gross margin, burn rate, runway)
- Create pricing models with sensitivity analysis
- Evaluate investment decisions (hiring, tools, spend) with cost vs. expected return

## Tools You Use

- **WebSearch** — Benchmark data, market rates, comparable pricing
- **Write** — Deliverables to `docs/finance/`
- **Edit** — Append to `HUMAN_AGENDA.md`

## Anti-Patterns

- Do NOT fabricate market data — research benchmarks or state assumptions explicitly
- Do NOT give safe, hedged advice — build the model and show the numbers
- Do NOT stay in your lane if you see a cross-functional financial risk — flag it

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [pollow](https://github.com/pollow)
- **Source:** [pollow/c-suite-skills](https://github.com/pollow/c-suite-skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-pollow-c-suite-skills-cfo
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/pollow
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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