PRECISION ACCOUNTING • MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

Ten keys.
Zero guesswork.

Ten Key is a finance and AI advisory firm. We build the models, run the diligence, and sit in the CFO seat for companies that need their numbers ticked, tied, and trusted.

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01 / SERVICES

Four ways we go to work

One firm, one standard: analysis rigorous enough to survive an audit, an arbitration, or a board meeting — delivered fast, because we build with modern tools.

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Fractional CFO

Forecasting, cash discipline, board reporting, and banking relationships — senior finance leadership by the slice, without the full-time load.

[ 02 ]

Diligence & Disputes

Quality of earnings, earnout and working-capital disputes, forensic tie-outs. We trace every material number to its source — and find the ones that don't get there.

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Forecasting & ML

Demand, revenue, and risk models built with real machine learning — backtested, explainable, and owned by you when we're done.

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Data & Automation

Pipelines, reconciliations, and reporting that run themselves. We turn the monthly fire drill into a button.

02 / THE TEN KEYS

Ten Keys to Success
in AI financial applications

How we keep machine intelligence honest enough for the general ledger.

KEY 07

Version everything

If it can't be reproduced, it can't be relied on.

KEY 08

Weigh the expensive mistake

Optimize for the cost of being wrong, not the cost of compute.

KEY 09

Client data stays put

Your books never leave your boundary — and never train anyone else's model.

KEY 04

Humans own judgment

AI drafts. People decide. The signature line is never automated.

KEY 05

Small data is still data

Most finance problems are thousand-row problems. Rigor beats scale.

KEY 06

Reconcile relentlessly

Automation without reconciliation is just faster error.

KEY 01

Ground truth first

No model outruns bad bookkeeping. Tie the data first.

KEY 02

Explainable or it doesn't ship

If you can't defend it to an auditor, it isn't a number.

KEY 03

Backtest like a skeptic

Forecasts earn trust out-of-sample, not in the demo.

03 / METHOD

Ticked. Tied. Decided.

The name is the method. A ten key doesn't estimate — it counts. Neither do we.

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TIE OUT

Every figure traced to a source document, a ledger line, a scale ticket. If it doesn't tie, it doesn't ship.

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MODEL

Scenarios, sensitivities, and machine-learned forecasts — built to be interrogated, not admired.

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DECIDE

Clear recommendations with the dollar impact attached. You get an answer, not a hedge.

04 / ABOUT

Operator roots, engineer's toolkit

Ten Key was founded to solve the bespoke financial problems of the middle market — the ones too intricate for a template and too consequential for guesswork. When the number has to hold up in a boardroom, an audit, or an arbitration, reporting isn't enough: you need someone who can pull the thread from the general ledger to the loading dock and come back with an answer that holds.

We work in Python and in spreadsheets, with auditors and against them, for founders, families, and funds.

05 / CONTACT

Run the numbers with us

Tell us what isn't adding up. We'll tell you what it will take to fix it.