It's happening today: How a real CFO uses Claude (LIVE in 3 hours)

Glenn Hopper opens his actual planning files. A real dataset, real prompts, and an honest take on where Claude saves time and where it doesn't.

We’re live in 3 hours.

Glenn Hopper goes live at 11:00 AM ET today, and he’s not running a demo. He’s running a real monthly reforecast cycle inside a Claude Project, live, in front of you.

Since I sent the announcement last week, Glenn shared the full agenda with me. It’s better than I expected.

Here’s what you’ll see today.

Glenn is using Fretboard Music Co., a synthetic three-location guitar retailer with a full dataset: monthly P&L, trial balances, and planning assumptions. Realistic enough to hold up to a finance audience.

He’ll walk through 4 segments:

1. Q1 close and health check Upload actuals. Claude surfaces what’s working (one location turning around) and what isn’t (guitar margins compressing across the board from a tariff impact).

2. Assumption stress-testing The exact prompt pattern where Claude analyzes before it changes anything. Then Glenn locks updated assumptions in real time.

3. Scenario planning Three live scenarios: reallocate marketing spend, rent shock, and closing the underperforming location. Plus an interactive sensitivity analysis.

4. Board deck generation Claude produces a real PowerPoint file from the analysis. Ready to clean up and present.

Throughout, Glenn shows how Projects, Memory, and Extended Thinking work together and how real file outputs (actual .xlsx and .pptx) come out the other side.

And he won’t sugarcoat it. You’ll hear exactly where Claude saves him time and where it still falls short.

Insider members only. Small group. This one won’t be recorded.

Today at 11:00 AM ET

If you want the live experience, you can upgrade to Insider. If you’re already an Insider member, the registration link is below.