Every CFO struggles day to day.

They can’t see their families on weekends. They have to spend so much time reviewing data and building board decks. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Al can change how a CFO works.

You don’t have to be chained to spreadsheets anymore.

Paulo Tabarelli has been a CFO several times over. He now runs finance for a family conglomerate in petrochemicals and paints, with businesses across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Lebanon, Italy, and Nigeria.

Over steak, he told me his previous boss once asked him where he added the most value. Not the close, not the reporting. The daily commercial meeting.

He sits in that room, hears what is going on, and connects it to the numbers he already has. That is where the job actually happens.

Think about your own week.

Every transaction in your business has an account it belongs to.

The rumor a salesman repeated to you on Tuesday has nothing.

So you carry it. And two weeks later you half remember it. Two months later it is gone, and the thing it would have warned you about arrives anyway.

That is the real cost. Not the hours.

The call you can no longer make, because the inputs are gone.

So Paulo built a second CFO Brain.

Claude reads it every morning, before it analyzes anything.

I rebuilt the whole thing from scratch this week, so the screenshots and numbers below are mine rather than his. Setup takes one prompt and about ten minutes.

Setup takes a few Claude prompts and about 10 minutes.

Let’s dive in.

Building a second brain as a CFO with Claude and Notion

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