Adam Tzagournis, CPA

Stealth AI Startup

Founder

FlowCog

Business finance simplified. FlowCog Canvas is a free tool to help you understand your company's past and future financial health.

Founder & CEO

Stack Overflow

Financial Analyst (Nov 2014 - Jan 2016)
Financial Manager (Jan 2016 - Nov 2017)

Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online developer community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities.

Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow partners with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers. To learn more about Stack Overflow's business solutions - technical recruiting, advertising, market research, and enterprise knowledge sharing visit stackoverflowbusiness.com.

Director of Finance

Hailo

Hailo is the evolution of the hail - a free smartphone app which puts people just two taps away from a licensed taxi, and lets cabbies get more passengers when they want them.

Senior Accountant/Financial Analyst

Brilliant Transportation

Brilliant is a revolutionary ground transportation firm focused on creating a travel experience that allows executives and companies to maximize their time.

Financial Analyst

PwC is a multinational professional services firm that provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders.

Experienced Associate

• Founder of a new AI stealth startup

• I'm a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and a full-stack software developer

• I built AI financial projections software

• I've worked with companies for over 10 years to help them raise money (and not run out of it)

• I write about business finance, cash runway, modeling, metrics, FP&A, equity ownership, programming, and more.

Author, lecturer, and strategic advisor focused on AI-powered finance transformation.

20+ years as a CFO and finance leader in private equity-backed companies, leading initiatives in automation, analytics, and operational scale. Deep expertise in aligning finance strategy with modern technology to improve performance, accuracy, and decision-making.

Advises CFOs and finance teams on adopting AI across forecasting, reporting, and operations. Emphasis on practical implementation, responsible governance, and measurable outcomes.

Author of Deep Finance and AI Mastery for Finance Professionals. Lecturer with Duke University, AICPA, and the Corporate Finance Institute, teaching the application of AI in real-world finance functions.

Committed to helping finance evolve through smarter systems, stronger insights, and better execution.

US Navy veteran.

Glenn Hopper

The 2025 AI World Tour continues with a stop in Montevideo, Uruguay, for Global Services Day. I’ll be giving the keynote on how AI is reshaping global services, shared service centers, and the broader business ecosystem.

Uruguay XXI is bringing together leaders from across the region to talk about the next stage of digital evolution in finance and operations. It is a strong community and I’m looking forward to the conversation.

Details here:

https://lnkd.in/enTpB_Pj

Building Practical AI Solutions for Finance | Head of AI at VAi

The magic of memory ...

As someone who works with AI tools every day and teaches others how to apply them across the finance function, I seldom stop to experiment with these systems on a more “personal” level.

This weekend, I had a bit of a meta moment. I haven’t spent significant time curating saved memories in these systems, yet when I asked ChatGPT about me, it painted a surprisingly accurate picture.

It noted my roles in finance and AI, the books I’ve written, the global talks I give, and the courses I teach. It’s fascinating how these tools form a narrative about us, even if we’re not actively feeding them all the details.

⚠️ Here's the obligatory security warning on this topic: even if you opt out of having your data used to train future models, many of these tools still retain conversation history and system-level memory to deliver continuity. That’s the tradeoff that makes the “second brain” possible. It isn’t good or bad on its own, but it’s something every professional should be aware of.

It all reinforces the same point: our interactions with AI quietly accumulate into context. Over time, that context becomes a mirror of your professional identity.
Sam Altman once described his vision as a future where AI can hold “a trillion tokens of context that you put your whole life into,” allowing it to reason across all your experiences. In other words, these tools are designed to know us deeply over time.

So here’s a thought experiment: What would your AI “second brain” say about you? If you’ve tried it, drop a comment and let me know what surprised you. And if you want to explore more of these insights, you can find my weekly musings at Deep Finance Dispatch: https://lnkd.in/eAgGt8s9

Proud to be part of this podcast and this community. 

FP&A Today has grown because finance professionals are eager to learn from each other; and my favorite part of hosting is getting to sit down with so many brilliant  finance leaders across the industry. Grateful to everyone who listens, shares, and keeps pushing the field forward!

Datarails podcast, FP&A Today has hit 500,000 audio downloads. Given that its the #1 financial planning and analysis podcast, I asked a director of FP&A to analyze our numbers. 

What is the story behind the numbers?
1. The main audience is US, Australia, UK, and Canada
2. Most downloaded episode: CFO Shannon Nash, Esq., CPA Nash, discusses Pitch Perfect Board Presentations
3. 79% of our audience listen on Apple IOS
4. 20-30 minutes performs best, with some preferring slightly longer deep dives.
5. Our ListenScore is as high as Big Four podcasts such as EY's Better Finance (though of course all these podcasts are fantastic and serve different niches within the finance world). Listen Score (LS) is a metric that shows the estimated popularity of a podcast compared to all other rss-based public podcasts 
6. Technical and data focused content continues to grab attention
7. More than 1000 FP&A professionals have earned CPE Credits with FP&A Today through the Earmark app
8. A small cohort of users topped the charts with 9 consecutive weeks of earning CPE

Thanks to the amazing hosts Glenn Hopper and of course previously Paul Barnhurst and all the amazing guests too many to tag.

*On a technical note it is 579,000 downloads (when you also add YouTube and our Earmark collaboration )

FP&A Today hits more than 500k downloads (FP&A analysis)

The variance sits at $42,500. It's been there since Tuesday.

Your senior accountant is three days into the close. She's toggling between a NetSuite extract, a folder of PDFs, and a three-month-old Slack thread.
Eventually, she forces a plug entry just to get the draft board deck out.

This is the operating reality of modern finance. We hire smart people to perform forensic data retrieval across fragmented systems.

Microsoft’s announcements at Ignite propose a new operating model. They call it the "Frontier Firm."

It is a bold promise, but it's what we have been waiting for from Microsoft. They're embedded more deeplyg in the workplace than any other software vendor, and this is the kind of move we've expected from them. If it works as promised, it has the potential to move the close from a brute-force human effort to an agent-operated workflow.

This is the infrastructure required for agents to execute tasks within the General Ledger:

▪️ Work IQ: The context engine. It connects agents to the Microsoft Graph so they understand your specific file versions and workflow patterns.
▪️ Fabric IQ: The semantic layer. It binds agents to structured data in Power BI so they do not hallucinate revenue figures.
▪️ Agent 365: The control plane. It allows IT to govern non-human identities with the same rigor used for employees.

We've been hearing about "continuous close" for years, but perhaps we are now entering the phase of specific, autonomous tasks. The goal is a close that never actually stops.

I break down the full analysis and the competitive moat against Salesforce and Google in this week's Deep Finance Dispatch.

https://lnkd.in/eS_RVkTp

For Pro members, I provide the 4-step governance checklist and the technical architecture map required to pilot your first "Supervisor Agent" without compromising the GL.

I joined JACK SWEENEY 🎙 on the latest Planning Aces episode where we highlighted three finance leaders who are rethinking how FP&A supports innovation. Chris Sands is building an AI Ops function at InvoiceCloud, Inc.. Steve Sutter is linking FP&A to sales economics and talent mix at Celigo. Niels Boon is using staged pilots and synthetic data at Cint. Three different approaches, all grounded in evidence and structure.

This month’s Planning Aces spotlight three finance leaders who are reshaping how FP&A guides innovation:
💡 Chris Sands, CFO of InvoiceCloud, Inc. — building a formal AI Ops function and empowering internal champions to drive change.
💡 Steve Sutter, CFO of Celigo — tying FP&A directly to sales economics, talent mix, and the guardrails needed to scale with discipline.
💡 Niels Boon, CFO of Cint— advancing risk-staged innovation through small pilots and ring-fenced synthetic-data bets.
Each offers a different path—but all share a commitment to structured, evidence-driven innovation.
And this episode marks a new chapter: author and former CFO Glenn Hopper joins us as our resident thought leader.   

Thanks to our Sponsor Planful - https://lnkd.in/eVKAwHsW  CFO THOUGHT LEADER

View newsletter: Finance Strategic Moments 

In this episode of Planning Aces, we spotlight FP&A insights from three CFOs leading innovation with discipline: Chris Sands (InvoiceCloud), Steve Sut

Open article: Discipline at the Heart of Innovation by CFO THOUGHT LEADER • 2 min read

🎙️New FP&A Today epsode 

I recently sat down with Diya Sagar, CFO of AWA Studios, to talk about what it takes to run a hits-driven, creator-first business. 

AWA operates at the intersection of publishing, media, and early-stage studio development, where one breakout success can change the entire trajectory of the company.

Diya brings a rare combination of investor discipline and operator pragmatism. We covered how she builds financial models around creative work, why upfront creator economics anchor every project, how she manages long-tail uncertainty in forecasting, and the controls needed to support a business where the payoff may be years away.

It’s a sharp look at portfolio thinking, data hygiene, and the role of finance inside a creative environment.

Definitely worth a listen if you work in FP&A, media, or any business built on big swings.

Listen here: https://lnkd.in/ekDyHTKn

Open video: CFO of AWA Studios on Building a Hits-Driven Business on youtu.be

CFO of AWA Studios on Building a Hits-Driven Business

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