The CFO’s Guide to AI-Adjusted EBITDA

Beyond the GAAP Trap: Calculating AI-Adjusted EBITDA for Valuation Defense The Executive Summary: Traditional SaaS metrics are failing AI-native business models. When compute is both your factory and your R&D lab, standard EBITDA calculations bleed valuation. This is the CRO’s framework for restructuring the P&L to reflect the true asset value of ‘Learning Compute’ versus … Read more

Algorithmic Territory Planning: The Equity Protocol

Algorithmic Territory Planning: The Equity Protocol The annual territory carve is typically a political exercise in redistribution. It shouldn’t be. By 2026, static territory maps will be indicators of operational failure. Here is the blueprint for moving from geography to algorithmic opportunity equity. The Death of the Zip Code For decades, the Chief Revenue Officer’s … Read more

The Reconciliation Offensive: Operationalizing Forensic Data for Revenue Recapture

The Reconciliation Offensive Transforming Forensic Data from Passive Reporting to Active Revenue Recapture In the traditional C-Suite view, the audit function is a shield—a defensive mechanism designed to ensure compliance and mitigate risk. However, in the era of high-velocity algorithmic compensation, this view is obsolete. The modern audit must be a sword. This strategy paper … Read more

Algorithmic Pricing Guardrails: Balancing Profit Maximization with Brand Equity

The Optimization Trap: Why Unconstrained Dynamic Pricing is Brand Liquidation The era of "Black Box" revenue optimization ended the moment pricing algorithms began calculating the surrender value of customer dignity. If your AI pricing engine is currently running without explicit ethical latency and brand-equity guardrails, you are not optimizing revenue. You are efficiently liquidating your … Read more

The Dynamic Territory Equity Model (DTEM) for AI-Driven Sales Orgs

The Death of Geography: Implementing the Dynamic Territory Equity Model (DTEM) Why Static Sales Patches Are Bleeding Your Revenue Engine Dry The Annual Planning Fallacy If you are currently finalizing your 2025 territory maps based on geography, headcount, or historical performance, you are codifying failure. You are building a sales organization designed for 2015, operating … Read more

Algorithmic Due Process: The Sovereign Audit Framework | AI Commission

Algorithmic Due Process: Converting Transparency into a Contractual Asset Executive Briefing The Thesis: Transparency in AI is no longer a technical favor provided by vendors; it is a liability shield and a sovereign asset. In the era of Automated Decision Making (ADM), the inability to explain a decision is legally indistinguishable from negligence. The Strategy: … Read more

Inclusive-CLV Logic: A New Framework for Equitable Customer Value Prediction

The Historical Regression Fallacy Is Dead Stop optimizing for the past. If your current Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) models rely primarily on historical regression and look-alike audiences based on legacy high-spenders, you are actively engineering your own market stagnation. As of 2025, traditional CLV is no longer a prediction metric; it is a mechanism for … Read more