Datarails, an AI-native financial operating system for the CFO’s office, has launched the AI Transformation Package, a service that embeds a dedicated forward-deployed financial engineer (FDFE) inside a customer’s finance team to build custom AI workflows directly in their Datarails FinanceOS environment.
While tech giants like Microsoft and OpenAI have launched forward-deployed engineering initiatives, Datarails says it’s bringing that model to a function those efforts have largely skipped: the CFO’s office.
The move is backed by recent Datarails research which found that nearly one in three finance jobs (31%) now requires artificial intelligence skills, up from one in four a year ago—outpacing teams’ ability to hire or build against that demand. In addition, independent research from the Financial Education & Research Foundation found that only 15% of organizations consider themselves well or fully prepared to support advanced analytics and AI initiatives.
“You cannot parachute a generalist engineer into finance and expect trustworthy output, which is why we have seen vast demand in the market for finance engineers embedded inside of finance teams,” Didi Gurfinkel, CEO and co-founder of Datarails, said in a statement. “Our FDFEs have decades of experience on finance teams, which they now bring to bear as they work directly with customers to build bespoke solutions on top of the FinanceOS that underpins their AI efforts. This ensures that all outputs—from Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT—are accurate, governed, repeatable and auditable.”
Datarails says the service is designed for teams with limited bandwidth but ambitious automation goals; organizations that want to fast-track AI adoption without requiring a lengthy and expensive IT project; and finance leaders who want to increase team output without adding headcount.
Each engagement pairs a customer with an FDFE for 25 hours per quarter across a four-phase model—discover, build, deploy, and evolve—designed to reach a live production workflow within the first quarter.
The AI Transformation Package is now available to existing Datarails customers. More information can be found here.
Datarails is an AI finance operating system for teams across financial planning and analysis, cash management, and month-end close. Uniting financial and operational data, FinanceOS is the platform’s data layer for finance teams, ensuring every AI output is accurate, governed, repeatable, and auditable. It lets users stay within Excel and a web-based platform, turning the CFO’s office into the home of business insights.
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