Advisory + Private Finance Platform

CFO advisory, delivered with a Private Finance Data Platform

We partner with your leadership to Drive cash, control, and decisions—without pulling on your tech or data teams, powered by AI automation. We deploy a dedicated, plug‑and‑play finance data platform for your company. You get outcomes, we handle the complexity.

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What customers say

★★★★☆ Estimated ROI

High ROI when volumes were significant; remained valuable as the market context evolved.

ROI Time‑to‑value Adaptability

★★★★★ Overall collaboration

The ability to quickly design and adapt the financial data tracking was extremely valuable. Precision and risk control were spot on.

AI Automation Cash control Data pipelines

★★★★★ Treasury ops

Zero‑trust payment routines and cash cadence helped us reduce errors and speed up decisions.

Zero‑trust Working capital Operational cadence

★★★★☆ Accuracy & granularity

Accurate, granular data for unit economics, close, pricing, and channel decisions. Consistent, reliable numbers across all reports.

Unit economics Close Pricing Granularity

★★★★☆ Close & tax compliance

Month‑end close and tax filings became smoother with fewer errors and faster answers.

Close IS / TVA Accuracy

★★★★☆ Automated cost control

Automated cost controls flagged risk early and reduced manual chasing.

Cost control Automation Alerts

We are trusted by stellar tech startups 🚀

€45m raised

Tiger Global Newfund Flourish Ventures

€100m raised

Accel Lakestar Eight Roads

€35m raised

Sequoia

— raised

Not disclosed

What you get with Caast

CFO advisory delivered with a dedicated finance data platform—no lift from your tech or data teams.

CFO Advisory

Zero‑trust cash controlling, real‑time working capital management, ultra‑granular unit economics, integrated planning models.

AI Automation, granularity, accuracy

End‑to‑end control and precision across cash, working capital, and unit economics.

Private Finance Data Platform

Dedicated, secure, and operated for you—no engineering required on your side.

Outcomes, not features

Faster close, better cash conversion, fewer errors, and clearer decisions.

Zero lift

We own setup, integrations, modeling, orchestration, and operations. Your team consumes insights and acts.

Zero‑trust by default

Least‑privilege access, backend proxy, encryption, and auditability.

CFO Advisory Services

Hands‑on advisory for finance teams. We build and run your finance control loop—cash, working capital, margins, and plan‑vs‑actual—and ship improvements in short cycles.

Zero‑trust cash controlling

Approval gates, segregation of duties, payment hygiene.

Real‑time working capital

Real‑time cash, DSO/DPO levers, collections routines.

Ultra‑granular margins

Channel/cohort, variance analysis.

Integrated planning

Driver‑based, rolling forecasts; plan/actual/forecast tied.

Operational cadence

Real‑time cash and margin reports for immediate decisions.

Event‑driven monitoring

Budget and cash burn alerts.

Private Finance Data Platform

Your dedicated finance data platform, deployed and operated for you. We handle design, deployment, and maintenance so your teams don't have to.

AI Agents

Finance AI automations designed for measurable outcomes.

Platform Management Apps

Operational control to orchestrate, observe, and govern.

Deep Integrations

Private connectors tailored to your systems.

Why our model works

Fast time‑to‑value. Zero internal tech dependencies. AI automation, granularity, and accuracy compound across processes, data, and decisions.

Zero‑trust cash clarity

Safer payment operations.

Optimal working capital

Less trapped cash.

Actionable unit economics

Pricing, channels, and ops.

Faster answers

No tech bottlenecks.

Exception‑based ops

Replace manual chasing.

Higher accuracy

Consistency across reports.

Security & Compliance

Enterprise‑grade security with zero‑trust principles, end‑to‑end encryption, and comprehensive audit trails built into every aspect of our platform.

Backend‑only credentials

Expiring tokens by default.

Zero‑trust cash ops

Least‑privilege access and audit trails.

End‑to‑end encryption

Across all flows. At rest and in transit with TLS.

In the media

L’annuaire du top 50 des DAF et CFO à temps partagé en France 🇫🇷

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Leadership

Rare blend of financial and data engineering expertise to unlock maximum of value for our clients.

Ismael Cherkaoui

Founder & Managing Partner, Caast.

Ismael is a seasoned tech CFO and the Founder of Caast. He helps founders grow and reach profitability while keeping control and clarity.

Over the last decade Ismael worked across high‑growth fintech and advisory.

He built and led the finance organisation of Fairmoney, a pan‑African/Asian digital bank from Series A (10m€) to Series B (35m€) with an operating stack across France, Nigeria and India, successfully closing and auditing the bank's first IFRS accounts. He joined the startup early as head of finance and employee #8 and contributed to growing the loan portfolio from none to 150m€ while reaching profitability.

Ismael also advised marketplace and SaaS companies as part‑time CFO and co‑founded four40.work, a knowledge graph AI startup, part of Founders cohort 23' at Station F.

He previously worked in M&A, PE/VC and transaction services—investment banking at Lazard, where he advised Orange on the sale of its Kenyan subsidiary; growth/VC at Quadrille Capital, a €1bn+ AUM tech fund, where he contributed to the unicorn round of BlaBlaCar; and transaction services at Mazars, where he advised on 40+ M&A/fundraising transactions for funds and corporate ventures.

An alumnus of Télécom Paris and EURECOM with a master from HEC Paris, Ismael brings a rare blend of deep financial expertise and systems/engineering thinking—designing effective finance processes and decision‑grade data pipelines and agents.