The company you built for the last era may not be the company you need for the next one.
As CFOs look toward 2027, the questions are shifting. Investors are scrutinizing not just growth, but the operating model behind it. AI is changing how work gets done and which capabilities companies need. Traditional measures of productivity are being challenged, and finance infrastructure built for yesterday’s business models is being tested by what comes next.
Built Different: Designing the Company for the Next Era brings Seattle CFOs and senior finance leaders together to examine what they would build differently today, and what they’re already changing for tomorrow.
We’ll open by flipping the perspective and looking at the company through an investor’s lens: what will make a business compelling for investment in 2027? From there, CFOs will move into candid, peer-led roundtables to work through the implications for their own organizations, including how they’re evolving team structures and skills, rethinking productivity and performance, and building the financial infrastructure to support their next stage.
This isn’t a conversation about predicting the future. It’s about making deliberate choices now about the company you want to be running next.
Through the Investor's Lens: Building the Company for 2027
The bar for an investable company is changing. Growth still matters, but investors are looking more closely at what sits underneath it: the efficiency of the operating model, where AI investment is creating real leverage, how headcount scales, and whether today's spending can support tomorrow's growth.
This conversation brings CFOs and investors together to examine what it means to build a company for investment in 2027. What numbers are investors scrutinizing? How are they evaluating AI spend and productivity? What does a credible headcount plan look like? And which signals suggest a company is truly built to scale?
We'll unpack how CFOs can pressure-test the business they're building today against the questions investors will be asking tomorrow.
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