When growth meets CFO reality
Nothing exposes bad tech decisions faster than a CFO-led tech stack rationalization. As a VP Revenue, I’ve seen it happen more than once. Suddenly, every tool needs an owner, a real use case, and provable ROI. “We’ve always used it” dies instantly, and that’s usually when you realize the issue isn’t tooling, it’s that nobody ever designed the system properly.
Budget scrutiny forces brutal clarity
When the CFO gets involved, the conversation shifts from features to outcomes, fast. Licenses are questioned, renewals get frozen, and sentiment no longer matters. If a tool can’t clearly explain how it helps revenue, efficiency, or predictability, it’s doomed. Rationalization forces you to separate what actually drives impact from what just made someone feel productive.
Vibe coding as a way out
This is where vibe coding changes the game. Instead of begging for budget or adding yet another SaaS tool, I can just build what we need. In previous roles, experimenting with tools like Lovable was fast, but immediately triggered security, governance, and enterprise concerns. Speed without trust doesn’t scale, it just creates another problem for finance and IT.
Building what the CFO (and IT) can say yes to
Working at Betty Blocks lets me move fast without compromising on security, compliance, or governance. I can build revenue-critical apps that replace multiple tools, simplify the stack, and make ROI painfully obvious. That flips the CFO conversation from “Why do we need this?” to “Why didn’t we do this sooner?”. Surviving CFO scrutiny isn’t about fighting finance, it’s about designing systems finance can actually trust.
As a VP, manager, IC, or even at C-level, you need to be a builder nowadays. With Betty Blocks, we allow you to be one. Do you already consider yourself a builder?
If not, try it out 👉 Betty Genius.
