Scaling Finance and Automating Back Offices with AI - with Fabienne Doerig

Fabienne Doerig is a former CFO and COO turned advisor, with 15+ years of experience helping companies - from pre-seed startups to public enterprises - scale their finance and ops. She’s led through hypergrowth, driven restructuring, and now helps founders automate the operational backbone of their business using AI.

In this episode we talk about:
•⁠ ⁠Why clarity, not code, is the first step in automation
•⁠ ⁠How to build a 13-week cash forecast that updates daily
•⁠ ⁠When to build, buy, or copy automation tools
•⁠ ⁠What founders get wrong about scaling their back office

A conversation about the hidden power of finance operations, the messy reality of AI adoption, and why the biggest wins often come from the most “boring” use cases.

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