34 books across seven canon shelves, written from the side of the table that asks the questions. AI has entered the building. The through-line is who owns the outcome, who performs competence, and who gets erased when the model finally sees the room.
Thirty-three titles is too many for a cold visitor to parse. This entry map routes readers by pain point before they start browsing the shelves.
Memoirs of an AI-Savvy CEO
“The question is not whether you have what you need. The question is what you are going to do with it.”
What Every Owner-Operator Suspects But No One in Finance Will Tell Them
“The answer, for most of you, is no.”
The Field Manual for Finance Leaders Who Are Done Waiting for Permission
“Fifteen chapters. Each one produces a deliverable you can use this week.”
How AI Is Rewriting Finance Leadership and Who Wins
“The accountant in you kept you safe. The operator in you will make you wealthy.”
CEO's Unfiltered Takes in the Age of AI
“The org chart was not a strategy. It was a hostage situation.”
Building Lasting Competitive Advantage When Intelligence Becomes Free
“Intelligence is free now. What you do with judgment is not.”
Vibe Coding for Finance and the Death of Spreadsheets
“The spreadsheet was not the product. It was the cry for help.”
The Executive Playbook for Building AI Agents, AI Teams, and AI-Native Companies
The cross-shelf playbook for what AI agents actually replace — and what they don’t.
Building the machine-to-machine commerce layer finance will have to account for.
A finance operator’s field guide to token models, treasury, and the accounting nobody’s written yet.
A Founder's Guide to the Person Smiling Across the Table
“The snake does not kill the deal. It tells you what the deal really is.”
A Corporate Finance Novel About Diligence, Incentives, and the Number Everyone Needs to Believe
“The buyer did not find the problem. The problem was already there.”
Inside the Private Credit Collapse, the Locked Funds, and the AI That Saw It Coming
“The mark on the book is a story. The AI told a different one.”
Private Equity at the End of the Easy-Money Cycle
“The vintage was not cursed. It was priced like gravity had been repealed.”
Know the Answer Before the Ask
“Investors do not fund confusion. They price it.”
The Buyer Already Knows
“Diligence is not discovery. It is confirmation with leverage.”
The M&A Process from the Side That Knows the Trick
“The deck is not the truth. It is the opening position.”
Frontier AI and the Collapse of Traditional Accounting Assumptions
“The standard did not fail. The world moved outside its assumptions.”
From Manufacturing Floors to Executive Decision-Making
“If you have ever signed off on a cost report you did not fully understand, this book closes that gap.”
What Business Owners Should Ask Before Paying for Silence, Complexity, and Missed Strategy
“The return was filed. The opportunity was not.”
What Public Accounting Looks Like After the AI Shock
“The audit did not disappear. The pyramid did.”
A Career Manual for the Prestige Economy
“The brand opens the door. It does not walk through it for you.”
The Finance Career Manual for Owning the Outcome
“The close is not the job. The business is the job.”
A Field Guide for Portfolio Company Leaders
“The sponsor already knows which version of you they are underwriting.”
Why every strategic argument in the boardroom eventually resolves to one number.
A working operator’s challenge to the slide decks that get mistaken for a plan.
The Hidden Power Struggles Behind Every Forecast, Budget, and Boardroom
“The most dangerous person in finance is the one with nothing left to protect.”
The Performance Games Companies Play Before Fundraising, Acquisition, and Exit
“A one-time cost that occurs three times is not a one-time cost. It is a business model.”
A Beauty Myth Retold for the Mirror Economy
“The mirror did not lie. It learned what she needed to hear.”
A Workplace Horror Story About Optimization, Labor, and the People Left in the Model
“They did not fire the employees. They optimized the variable.”
The Name Tag Cubicle Graveyard Story
“Every cubicle had a name tag. The people were harder to find.”
Start with the Executive Stack for finance transformation, the Deal & Private Equity Stack for M&A judgment, or the fiction shelves when the operating model becomes the monster.