A CFO evaluating STIV Finance isn't asking whether AI can draft a variance report — most tools can produce something that looks like one. The actual questions are narrower: where does every number trace back to, who signed off on it, and what happens the day it's wrong.
The traceability question comes first
STIV Finance reconciles connected account data and drafts reports with figures traceable to their sources — not a summary generated from a prompt, but output tied back to the underlying records. That matters more to a CFO than speed, because a fast report a controller can't defend under audit is worse than a slow one they can.
What still requires your sign-off
- Every entry, adjustment, or finalized report routes through an approval gate your team defines before it's final — STIV drafts and reconciles, your controller decides.
- Variance flags are surfaced against patterns your team sets, not a generic anomaly model guessing at what's unusual for your business.
- Access is scoped to Finance's connected data specifically — a Sales or Support agent, if you run one, doesn't get standing visibility into the general ledger.
The month-one math
Single Division pricing at $1,500/mo is the number to weigh against a specific, current cost: hours spent on reconciliation and report drafting that a controller or analyst is doing manually today. It isn't priced or positioned as a replacement for the judgment a controller applies at close — it's priced as removing the repetitive preparation work that happens before that judgment gets applied. What to actually track in the first quarter is approval rate trend, time-to-first-value, and audit trail incidents — not a vague sense that close felt easier.
The honest pitch to a CFO is the same one on the security page: verify before you trust. Ask what's traceable, what's gated, and what's logged, and treat a vendor that can't answer those three specifically as a bigger risk than one that answers slowly.