The Savings Sanity Check.

The Savings Sanity Check. Twelve questions I've asked in 35 years of finance and procurement work every time someone hands me a savings number, plus 25 copy-paste prompts so your AI assistant asks them for you.

The Savings

Sanity Check

12 questions that kill a fake savings number

+ 25 copy-paste AI prompts

Madeleine Joubert

AI-Augmented ConsultingBEFORE YOU START

Why this exists

Every finance and procurement function reports savings. Almost none of them reconcile to

the P&L. The gap between the two is not fraud. It is optimism, loose definitions and nobody

having the time to ask the awkward question.

This is the awkward question. Twelve of them, in the order a sceptical CFO would ask

them. Each one comes with a copy-paste prompt so your AI assistant does the first pass

and you do the judgement.

About the author

Madeleine Joubert has spent 35 years in finance and procurement consulting, including

McKinsey, Bain, Accenture and as a Director at BDO. She was a lead author of

Accenture's Procurement Benefits Handbook. She now runs AI-Augmented Consulting,

helping CFOs and CPOs in mid-market regulated industries use AI without losing their

judgement.

The Savings Sanity Check is published by StoryC Ltd, trading as AI-Augmented Consulting. For personal and internal business

use. Not to be resold or redistributed. Nothing here is financial, legal or audit advice; it is thirty-five years of watching numbers

get rounded up.

storycltd.co.uk

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