CFO Advisor
CFO Advisor provides strategic financial leadership for startups and scaling companies, covering financial modeling, unit economics, fundraising strategy, cash management, and board financial packages. It produces decision-focused models, analyses, and readiness packages, not just financial reports.
✨ What it does
- Provides frameworks for financial modeling, unit economics, burn/runway, fundraising, board financials, cash management,
- Includes a CFO metrics dashboard with targets for efficiency, revenue, economics, and cash.
- Identifies red flags such as rising burn multiple, declining gross margin, low NDR, and short runway.
- Offers Python scripts for burn rate calculation, unit economics analysis, and fundraising modeling.
- Proactively triggers alerts for runway, burn multiple, unit economics deterioration, and budget variances.
- Uses chain-of-thought reasoning and an internal quality loop for verified outputs.
🎯 When to use it
- When building or reviewing financial models, budgets, or three-statement forecasts.
- When analyzing unit economics, such as LTV, CAC, payback periods, or net dollar retention.
- When planning fundraising, including timing, valuation, dilution, and term sheets.
- When managing cash runway, burn rate, or scenario planning for base/bull/bear cases.
- When preparing board financial packages or financial sections for board meetings.
🚀 How to use
Trigger the skill by asking financial strategy questions or mentioning keywords like CFO, burn rate, runway, fundraising, unit economics, LTV, CAC, term sheets, or financial strategy. It expects company context (company-context.md if present) and specific requests. Example prompts:
How much runway do we have?
Prep for fundraising
Analyze our unit economics
Build the budget
Board financial section
📄 Output: Deliverables include runway models, fundraising readiness packages, unit economics analyses, budgets, and board financial sections.
📦 Add this skill to Claude Code
# 1. Get the skills repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills
# 2. Copy this skill into your project (or ~/.claude/skills for all projects)
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/c-level-advisor/skills/cfo-advisor .claude/skills/cfo-advisorSkill source: c-level-advisor/skills/cfo-advisor/SKILL.md
⚠️ Good to know
This skill is strategic, not a financial analyst; it requires company context and may need input from other roles for cross-functional decisions.
❓ FAQ
What is the target burn multiple?
The target burn multiple is less than 1.5x, with a red flag if it exceeds 2x for two or more consecutive months.
What does the skill produce for a fundraising request?
It produces a fundraising readiness package including metrics, deck financials, and cap table.
How does the skill handle scenario planning?
It builds base, bull, and bear scenarios for runway and financial projections, modeling the downside first.
🤖 Overview, features, install steps and FAQ were generated from the project's SKILL.md on Sep 4, 2026. Always check the original source before running commands.