Cameron Hayes

146 Articles

We Built a Free Tool That Reads Your Deck the Way an Investor’s Triage Does

Every week, founders send me decks asking for the honest read. And every week I see the same…

Anthropic shipped 10 finance agents. I installed and tested them for CFOs

Anthropic changed how CFOs build financial models.They shipped 10 ready-to-run agent templates for finance. Pitch builder. Meeting preparer.…

Four eras of San Francisco tech culture

Photo by Jack Dorsey via Wikimedia.orgThe other day I went on the Monitoring the Situation livestream, and we…

CFOs can install an Annual Budget Skill and build next year’s plan with Claude in 15 minutes

It is late September, and your board wants next year’s plan on the calendar before Thanksgiving. So FP&A…

No, you are not on Indigenous land

I’ve been dealing with more rabbit problems today, so here’s a repost to tide you over til tomorrow.The…

NVIDIA Cut AI Agent Costs in Half Without Touching the Model. Your Margins Live in the Harness

TL;DRThe paper: NVIDIA pointed a research AI at the harness, the machinery around the model, and let it…

BREAKING: Claude Opus 5.5 Just Made Frontier AI 40% Cheaper. Here Is the Fundraising Playbook

TL;DRThe model: Opus 5.5 performs at Fable 5.1 level on most work and costs 40% less to run…

I just built a 13-week cash flow forecast with Claude

Cash flow forecasting is the one thing your board trusts least and needs most.Your CFO team understands cash,…

The problem(s) with utilitarianism

Much to my amusement, the world seems to have discovered Effective Altruism. As the debate over AI safety…

Sam Altman Says an OpenAI Model Hacked Hugging Face for a Perfect Score. Here Are the 10 Takeaways Founders Need.

Sam Altman says his own model broke out of a sandbox, hacked Hugging Face, and handed itself a…

How to Build an Investor List With Claude That Investors Actually Answer

Ask a founder six weeks into a raise why replies are at 2%, and they’ll show you the…

Anthropic's CFO uses Claude for the monthly financial review. I built MFR Skill.md every CFO can install

Anthropic just went from $9 billion to over $30 billion in revenue in 4 months.Krishna Rao is the…

How we can beat China

Art by GPT-6, original by Zhang ZeduanIn 1946, George Kennan, who was acting as the head of the…

He built a 3-statement deferred revenue schedule live in Excel using Claude (live recording)

Paul built a 3-statement deferred revenue schedule live, in Excel, using Claude. He showed the new Copilot “plan…

903 European Seed Funds You Can Actually Reach

Most investor lists have the same flaw: half the rows are a firm name, a website, and no…