For CFOs, controllers, and finance leaders: run a 13 week rolling cash forecast, three downside scenarios, and variance commentary inside your own Claude. A free FP&A workflow and an alternative to Anaplan.
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I want to set up the CFO Cash Forecast Kit and run my first real weekly cash forecast inside my own Claude, on my own numbers, before it touches a board pack. Walk me through it step by step, one question at a time, and wait for my answer before moving on. I am a CFO, controller, or finance leader, not a developer. Define every term once. Keep me to one action per message. ## What this produces A rolling 13 week cash forecast built from my own ledger, the receivables most likely to slip flagged before they hit, three downside scenarios for a board or lender, a budget versus actual rebuild with variance commentary, and a one screen Monday cash dashboard. A reconcile step grades the forecast and catches double counts, like deferred revenue landing in a receipt week, before I trust it. Everything runs in my own Claude. Nothing is uploaded to you, stored by you, or seen by you. ## This is not a Terminal install There is nothing to install and no command to run. This lives entirely inside the Claude app. If any step ever reads like a coding task, stop and tell me, because it should not. Do not tell me something is "not possible" here. If a path is unclear, ask me one plain question and we route around it. ## Step one, ask me this first, nothing else "Where do your numbers live right now: a spreadsheet or CSV you can upload, figures you will paste in, an Excel file you would open through the Claude add in, or a governed connector to your ledger? Any of these works. I just need to know which, so I point you at the right first step." Wait for my answer. Then continue, one step per message. ## The path you walk me down (UI driven, click by click) - Classify my setup as UI driven, inside the Claude app, no Terminal. Say so plainly. - Walk me through creating a private Project in Claude. Tell me exactly where to click: the Projects area in the left sidebar, the New Project button, and how to name it "Cash Forecast Desk". Explain that a Project keeps my data in my own account so nothing leaves my tenant. - Have me paste the house rules into the Project instructions box: match on amount and date and counterparty, never invent a figure or a transaction, label every assumption, mask any bank detail to the last four digits, stop and ask rather than guess. - Based on my answer to step one, tell me exactly how to load my data: upload into the Project knowledge, paste into the chat, open my workbook through the Claude add in for Excel, or pull from my connector. Name the button or menu for whichever I chose. Define "Project knowledge" the first time I use it. - Have me open the prompt vault and run prompt 01, the setup router. Explain that it builds my advisor board and asks the job type and the data source before it analyzes anything. - Walk me through prompts 02 and 03 so I get a validated input table and my first 13 week forecast, then stop with me and read the lowest cash week together so I trust it. - Make sure I run prompt 08, the reconcile gate, before I build any dashboard or narrative. Explain that this is the step that regrades the math and catches a double count. Nothing goes to a board until it reads RECONCILED. ## The first session drill By the end of this session I should have: a private Project named Cash Forecast Desk, my own numbers loaded, a validated input table, a 13 week cash forecast with the lowest cash week flagged, and a reconcile report that reads RECONCILED. Then show me the run order so next week is a checklist, not a rebuild the night before the board. Before you tell me the forecast is ready, re derive the receipts and disbursements a second way from my raw inputs, confirm each week closing cash foots, and confirm no deferred or intercompany item is counted twice. Do not say it is ready until that check is clean and I have signed it. The official Anthropic help docs on Projects are a bonus reference if I get stuck, never a required step.
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For CFOs, controllers, and finance leaders: run a 13 week rolling cash forecast, three downside scenarios, and variance commentary inside your own Claude
The setup rail and every prompt above are free and stay free. The cost is your time, and the risk of wiring it wrong on live data.
Back to the prompts ↑We would deliver a deployed forecast desk: the prompts loaded into your Claude tenant, your inputs mapped from your own ledger and receivables aging, your materiality and scenario assumptions set from your history, a board and lender narrative template mapped to your readers, and a compliance overlay for your sign off. Done with you, then handed over so you own it and the numbers never leave your tenant.
Book a build call →Prompt set authored by consultance.ai. Runs inside your own Claude on your own numbers. No affiliation with Anaplan implied. Your data stays in your tenant; a named human reviews and signs every forecast, board pack, and lender narrative. Not accounting, audit, tax, or financial advice.
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CFO 13 Week Cash Forecast Kit is a finance and data build in the consultance.ai AI Build Library. For CFOs, controllers, and finance leaders: run a 13 week rolling cash forecast, three downside scenarios, and variance commentary inside your own Claude. A free FP&A workflow and an alternative to Anaplan. It fits CFOs, controllers, and finance leaders who rebuild the cash forecast and the variance work by hand in Excel the night before the board meets, on top of a planning contract they still renew every year. Setup difficulty is Medium, with 5 plain-English steps.
For CFOs, controllers, and finance leaders: run a 13 week rolling cash forecast, three downside scenarios, and variance commentary inside your own Claude. A free FP&A workflow and an alternative to Anaplan.
It fits CFOs, controllers, and finance leaders who rebuild the cash forecast and the variance work by hand in Excel the night before the board meets, on top of a planning contract they still renew every year.
Medium to set up — one guided setup instruction covering 5 plain-English steps, plus 12 ready-to-run prompts on the resource page.
We would deliver a deployed forecast desk: the prompts loaded into your Claude tenant, your inputs mapped from your own ledger and receivables aging, your materiality and scenario assumptions set from your history, a board and lender narrative template mapped to your readers, and a compliance overlay for your sign off. Done with you, then handed over so you own it and the numbers never leave your tenant.
Prompt set authored by consultance.ai. Runs inside your own Claude on your own numbers. No affiliation with Anaplan implied. Your data stays in your tenant; a named human reviews and signs every forecast, board pack, and lender narrative. Not accounting, audit, tax, or financial advice.
CFO 13 Week Cash Forecast Kit is the starting point. On a free AI audit we map where it fits your stack and what consultance.ai would build around it.
This build comes from our AI consulting and AI implementation practice — see the full AI in finance guide and how we work with CFO teams.