CFO Claw is an AI-powered financial director skill package that automates budget execution, strategic allocation, PDCA reviews, and expense auditing.
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1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install cfoclaw
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install cfoclaw using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is CFO Claw?
CFO Claw is an expert-level financial director AI assistant skill. As part of the modular Openclaw Skills ecosystem, it delivers deep financial management automation directly to technical platforms and business workflows. The skill serves as a virtual CFO, helping organizations oversee budget execution rates, identify financial warning signals like red and orange lights, monitor closed-loop issue resolutions, and run strategic quadrant allocation analyses.
By synthesizing complex financial data, CFO Claw bridges the gap between raw ledgers and executive decision-making. It operates seamlessly across local SQLite setups for quick demonstration and fully scalable production APIs, ensuring standard, policy-compliant financial oversight at every step.
CFO Claw Use Cases
- Comprehensive Budget Execution Dashboards: Monitor high-level financial indicators, including actual spending versus budget, warning indicators, and closed-loop resolution rates.
- Strategic Attribution & Reallocations: Classify expenditures into strategic quadrants and discover optimization opportunities for cross-departmental transfers.
- Closed-Loop PDCA Operations: Generate systematic PDCA action lists based on business review meetings to drive structural financial improvements.
- Compliant Expense Auditing: Run automated 6-step expense checks, ensuring multi-line approval verification and double-invoice prevention.
- Automated Financial Report Generation: Compile monthly flashes, quarterly reports, and executive business analysis documents instantly.
How CFO Claw Works
- Query Routing: The routing engine evaluates incoming user prompts to dispatch requests. General metrics trigger the executive-dashboard, while specialized queries route to dedicated sub-skills like expense-management or budget-allocation.
- Flexible Data Adapters: Depending on setup, the system retrieves data via local SQLite queries or hooks into existing APIs utilizing the FINANCE_API_BASE setting.
- Domain Rule Engine Evaluation: Transactions are validated against predefined compliance matrices, including Hard Rules for strict vetoes and Soft Rules for warnings.
- Structured Financial Modeling: Utilizing frameworks like the 3GAP/3List and L1-L3 indicator metrics, the skill assesses spending trends and anomalies.
- Standardized Executive Outputs: Produces beautifully structured terminal summaries outlining Core Metrics, Detail Distributions, and actionable Operating Suggestions.
CFO Claw Setup
Get started instantly by deploying this skill within your Openclaw Skills workspace.
Initialize the SQLite mock database to load demo financial data:
python3 {baseDir}/query_db.py --skill init-db
For production deployments, connect to your corporate core ledger by setting the environment variable:
export FINANCE_API_BASE="http://localhost:8080/api"
Execute real-time adapter checks across sub-skills with simple CLI hooks:
python3 {baseDir}/data_adapter.py --skill executive-dashboard --period 2026-05 --mode api
CFO Claw Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill maintains organized data structures, ensuring robust execution tracking. Below is the primary domain taxonomy managed by the database and adapter:
| Object Entity | Domain Purpose | Core Properties |
|---|---|---|
| BudgetItem | Tracks corporate spending categories across B1-B9 L1 subjects. | budget_code, allocated_amount, execution_rate |
| AlertRecord | Manages budget warning events and escalations. | alert_id, alert_level, closure_status |
| ExpenseReport | Processes employee expense filings and checks compliance. | report_id, invoice_hash, approval_route |
| StrategicInitiative | Maps financial outlays against strategic corporate growth areas. | initiative_id, quadrant_index, strategic_weight |
Budget Control Configurations
- Strong Control (L2/L3): Blocks any transaction exceeding the defined threshold.
- Portfolio Control: Governs spending across shared pools without strict individual line blocks.
- Uncontrolled: Tracks expenditures for analytic purposes without putting hard gates in place.
CFO Claw Advanced Features
- Pluggable Data Architecture: Transition effortlessly between local SQLite development environments and highly secure corporate APIs.
- Dual-Line Approval Matrix: Automatically calculates and suggests optimal escalations based on department structures and risk classifications.
- Dynamic Warnings & Threshold Alerts: Auto-flags critical warning items when budget utilization deviates from expected parameters or when closure rates fall below 80%.
- Automated Invoice De-duplication: Embeds secure, automated 6-step metadata verification pipelines into standard workflows.
- Ecosystem Integration: Operates in harmony with other Openclaw Skills to build specialized, multi-agent automated auditing pipelines.
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