CFO and strategic finance advisory for AI-native and growth tech companies.

Accelerate board prep. Enable effective data driven decision making. Build readiness for capital events and strategic partnerships.

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Strategic finance, capital structure and operating expertise to serve fast growing companies in:
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AI Infrastructure
02
Agentic Platforms
03
Vertical AI & Services
04
Fintech & Stablecoins

Built for how AI-native companies work

Your business model has financial characteristics most CFOs haven't seen before. We have.

ARR reporting & defensible financial statements

Define ARR and Contracted ARR robustly, including principal vs agent determination for channel partnerships. Classify RPO and deferred revenue across platform tiers, credits and outcome-based pricing.

Compute procurement & COGS levers

Support GPU/CPU compute procurement, model blended compute COGS scenarios, provide clarity on training and inference cost structures and Gross margin implications.

Enable growth strategies & optimize unit economics

Support leadership and GTM teams by calibrating outcome-based pricing, tiered subscription and other agentic platform pricing strategies. Defining scenarios for capital allocation on compute, token usage, and credit discounts.

Budgeting & cash flow management

Implement robust budgeting frameworks and cash flow forecasting to optimize operating leverage and manage burn rate.

Capital Structure & Financing

Work with founding teams to finance compute, define funding milestones, reduce DSO, implement debt facilities, and establish effective treasury management.

Strategic finance & FP&A bench strength

Bridge gaps in FP&A capacity, add targeted expertise in financing and corporate development, introduce enterprise-grade practices.

Whether you sell compute or inference software, agentic platforms, or verticalized work outcomes we can support you to optimise your COGs and accelerate profitability.

01AI Infrastructure
If you sell inference — cost per GPU-hour
GPU compute unit economics — per GPU-hour margin waterfall

Compute is not on a one-way deflationary trend — effective procurement that achieves a balance between reserved and on demand compute is a lever, but durable gross margin comes from revenue mix.

02Agentic Platforms
If you sell agents — effective cost to serve
Inference mix-shift — platform cost to serve vs provider list price

The gap between what providers charge and what you actually pay is engineered — in part through model routing, substitution, and caching. Driving this expands your Gross margin.

03Vertical AI & Services
If you sell work — cost per outcome
Cost per outcome — value-anchored price with margin expanding as automation displaces delivery labor

When price is anchored to the value of the work — a contract reviewed, a support case resolved — it holds even as your costs fall. Gross margin expands as the business gains operating leverage.

What changes when we step in

Most teams we work with are navigating similar challenges.

Here are a few typical themes — and what you can expect from us.

Now
Close & trust

Monthly close takes 10 days or more, and leadership doesn't fully trust the numbers it's deciding on.

With us
A faster, documented close

Accruals and reconciliations owned end-to-end — and numbers that flow straight into board-ready reporting.

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Revenue recognition that fits your business model

Outcome-based pricing, platform tiers, credits and breakage make ASC 606 genuinely hard for standard playbooks.

With us
Recognition built for your billing

ARR, RPO and deferred revenue classified defensibly, with principal-vs-agent treatment that holds up under audit scrutiny.

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FP&A bench strength for the decisions that matter

No one owns the unit-economics, pricing, and capital-allocation modeling that growth decisions actually turn on.

With us
Scenario-ready models

Compute, pricing, and burn modeled — so capital allocation and GTM calls are made on numbers you can defend to a board.

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The back-office obligations no one has time for

Treasury, debt covenants, equity comp (ASC 718 / 409A) and audit trails sit unowned, surfacing only under deadline pressure.

With us
Standing, owned workflows

Run on clearly documented workflows with clear ownership — handled on a systematic cadence, not as a fire drill.

How we work

1

Evaluate

Identify priority needs to enable milestones and decision making

2

Configure

Customize our frameworks for your business, align FP&A, budgeting, financing

3

Operate

Uplevel key workflows for monthly close, revenue recognition, and strategic workstreams

4

Report

Enable enterprise-grade board-ready materials and IR on systematic cadence

Optimize your finance and operations workflows.
Accelerate growth. Reduce risk.

What you get

For any engagement we deliver strategic insight, scalable processes, and tailored models with clear documentation.

CFO advisory

Strategic input on capital structure, Balance Sheet building, and decision support for capital allocation on a fractional or dedicated basis.

FP&A leadership and modeling

AI-native company category specific three statement financial models, revenue and COGS scenario analysis, FP&A playbooks

Board communication and management

Eliminate manual steps in board prep, delivering high-clarity, data-driven board materials and scenario analysis

Automations and Agentic workflows

Support to define and build agentic finance workflows and analytics, collaborating with engineering teams

Close management and SOPs

Process oversight and coordination, alignment to 75-task checklist, documented workflows and RACIs

Revenue recognition and audit support

ASC 606 for AI-specific billing models, SOPs, and support for audit process management

Decision ready data intelligence

Real-time insights and metrics to inform capital allocation and critical scale-up decisions

Decision ready data intelligence — NRR, gross margin, CAC payback, LTV:CAC and FDE deployment economics

Why Spruce Street

Automation-first approach

Dedicated finance leader with vertical expertise in AI and fintech

Enterprise grade finance for VC/PE backed companies

Enable procurement and balance sheet expansion

Designed for

AI-native founding teams

Who need a Finance specialist that is AI pilled and understands your unit economics, who can build the Finance systems you need to support your growth

Growth stage tech companies

Who have a Controller or Finance lead but need bench strength to enable compute capital markets, to support FP&A, or position for institutional capital and strategic transactions.

Fintech companies

Who have complex B2B infrastructure, payments or lending business models, and need support in GTM, scaling lending or funding operations, or building the balance sheet.

Let's talk.

15-minute conversation about your company's situation and potential needs. No pitch deck, no sales process.

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