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AI-Powered Scenario Planning: The Next Frontier in FP&A

October 1, 2025/by The Schlott Company

The Quiet Failure Hiding in Scenario Planning Every finance leader knows the ritual.You run a planning cycle, spin up your “base case,” bolt on a mild “upside” and “downside,” and present it to the board. The numbers look polished. The slides are airtight.But everyone in the room knows the truth: it’s theater. Because the real […]

Why CFOs Are Ditching the Annual Plan (And What They’re Building Instead)

June 28, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

Most annual plans die quietly.They don’t break. They just become irrelevant. The numbers get approved, the slides get saved, and by Q2—leadership is solving a new set of problems with last year’s assumptions. That’s the real risk: not being wrong, but being late. We’re seeing a shift. A new generation of SaaS CFOs is phasing […]