Revenue definition
Can you distinguish contracted, recognised, invoiced and collected revenue?
Reconcile the customer revenue measures used in reporting and forecasts.
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Check whether pricing, compute costs, implementation effort and customer usage are visible enough to support a credible growth plan.
11 questions. Approximate completion time: 3 to 5 minutes. Immediate results. No email required to see your plan.
Can you distinguish contracted, recognised, invoiced and collected revenue?
Reconcile the customer revenue measures used in reporting and forecasts.
Can you attribute inference, API, hosting and other compute costs to usage?
Map direct compute costs to the customer, workload or usage unit that drives them.
Are onboarding, integration and configuration hours measured?
Track implementation effort and identify what can be standardised or priced separately.
The objective is to make the evidence and unanswered questions visible. A well-presented score is only a starting point. Review the underlying answers, allocate responsibility and decide which gaps need records, analysis or specialist input.
Your industry changes the information that matters. The action plan includes an industry prompt covering the commercial and cash drivers relevant to your selection. It does not assume that an AI company, a retailer and a professional services firm should be judged using the same operating metrics.
Consult EFC can help agree the right scope, organise the inputs and build financial work around your intended decision. Fees, deliverables, information requirements and timing are agreed before work starts.
Explore Financial Modelling for AI Businesses servicesAnswer three context questions, then 8 evidence questions. Each evidence answer receives 0, 1, 2 or 3 points with equal weight. The preparation score is the percentage of available points, rounded to a whole number. The CFO assessment reverses that score to describe reported gaps. These are transparent internal scoring rules, not externally validated benchmarks.
A visibility and evidence assessment for AI businesses. It does not calculate profitability or compare you with a market benchmark.
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Use it to identify questions and organise evidence, then review the findings in the context of your business. Missing evidence and genuine commercial risk are different issues. An assessment cannot establish either without further investigation.
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