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René Stephansen, founder of CapacityPod
What We Do

A stronger finance function, built for what's ahead.

We strengthen the strategic finance function — the planning, forecasting and analysis that leadership can rely on for timely and confident decision-making. Growth rarely arrives in a straight line. We help you plan and execute through it: reading the risks early, moving on the opportunities, and keeping the numbers honest while the ground shifts.

It has never been more pressing to understand and evaluate your business processes to capture AI-related value creation. We bring AI into planning, forecasting and analysis to increase the quality and speed of the decisions that run your business. We also help boards and executive teams understand where and how AI can create value, and how to govern it. Implementing a strong AI governance structure will unlock value creation!

And we do the work that arrives at the harder moments: getting ready for investors, a capital event or a sale, and carrying the finance side through to close, and beyond.

How We Engage

A small book. Direct involvement.

Engagements are direct, and scope is built around what the company actually needs now. We only commit to what we can manage.

We aim to make your finance function stronger over time, independent of an outside CFO.

The Work

Where we add the most value

Engagements are scoped to the company. These four areas are examples of where we can bring solutions. The work starts from what your company needs.

FP&A

  • Owning the budget process and the reporting cycle, including a rolling 12-to-18-month forecast.
  • A focus on the leading indicators that drive financial performance, not only on what has already happened.
  • Investment analysis: a driver-based model with scenarios that can be tested at board level.

Board Reporting

  • Building and maintaining the board reporting package, with written commentary — and business context in cooperation with the business leaders.
  • Clear communication on the financial items on the board's agenda.
  • In the room or on the call when needed.

M&A Readiness

  • Developing and maintaining the investor deck, and the financial story, model and data room behind it.
  • Communication with private equity and other stakeholders, including your side of term-sheet review and negotiation.
  • Finance support through capital events and audits.
  • Exit readiness: the 18-to-24-month window where value is built before a sale, not discovered during one.

Artificial Intelligence

  • AI value creation and a governance structure for boards and executive teams.
  • Finance process optimization for agentic AI.
Who This Is For

You need a CFO at the table.

Our CFO services are perfect for companies in a growth or transition moment. A fundraise on the horizon. Board pressure tightening. An exit window opening. A founder carrying the financial story alongside everything else, ready to hand part of it to someone who has done it before.

If what you need is bookkeeping, monthly close or controller work, that is what our SMB Staff Functions service delivers.

A direct conversation.

The first call is diagnostic — to understand your situation. We will be honest with you about fit and availability, and help you find the right solution for what you need.

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