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Which line of your job would your CFO cut?

Write the job you'd want to be graded against in three lines, and attach proof from the last 12 months to each one. Then find out which line wouldn't survive the room.

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Line 1 of 3

What are you deep in?

The part of the discipline you could be questioned on for an hour without reaching for a deck.

Line 2 of 3

What can you say in the room's units?

A number you personally produced that a CFO then used.

The room's units are the measures finance already runs the business on: revenue, margin, cash, cost to acquire a customer, payback. Used means it changed a decision.

Line 3 of 3

What have you built with your own hands this year?

Literally built: a model, a dashboard somebody else now runs on, a small AI agent you set up yourself.

Built means you made it. A thing your team or an agency made for you belongs to them.

Your spec

Hand this to someone who'd have to defend hiring you. Which line do they cut?

If you won't actually hand it over, and most people won't, answer with the line you think they'd cut. The one you'd least like to show anyone is usually the answer.

Line one

What I'm deep in

Line two

What I can say in the room's units

Line three

What I've built myself

None of them

All three would survive

What the cut tells you

Your next move

Your spec

Check it again on . If the same line would still be cut, that's your answer.