LIGHTS OUT FINANCE
Lights Out Finance · Assess

Where does your operation actually stand?

Three short instruments — two minutes each, plain-language answers, no login. You get your position immediately; anonymous responses build the industry benchmark this publication reports back. Leave an email if you want the report; tick the box only if you want to talk.

The headline measure

The Lights Out Maturity Index

Six questions across the whole operation — where you sit on the Manual → Autonomous path, which stage is your binding constraint, and how you compare as the benchmark fills in. The original instrument, embedded in the flagship paper.

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The Close & Controls Pulse

Five questions on how your close, reconciliations, and evidence actually run. Output: your stage on the path, and the paper to read next.

1. How does your close actually end?
2. Reconciliations are…
3. Audit evidence is…
4. Intercompany differences are…
5. Management reporting draws from…
The five layers

The Autonomy Readiness Check

One question per layer of the enablement stack. Output: your binding constraint — the layer holding everything above it down — and the paper that argues how to fix it.

1. Master data (customers, vendors, materials, accounts) has…
2. Models in production (matching, scoring, language) are…
3. Beyond scripted workflow, exceptions are handled by…
4. Your core platforms expose capabilities via…
5. If an agent acted in your ledger tomorrow, could you show who authorized it and why?

The benchmark reports back

Aggregated results publish as the Lights Out Finance Survey — the industry’s honest baseline on the path to autonomous operations. Respondents who leave an email receive it first.

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