SPERO CFO

High-touch. High-trust.
Intelligently engineered for what comes next.

Institutional-grade finance and AI-native systems for founders, families, funds, and capital allocators.

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Five Divisions · One Standard

Senior finance, embedded by design — across every form of capital we serve.

How we engage

From first conversation to embedded partner — in four deliberate moves.

01 · Discovery

Understand the surface area.

A confidential review of your books, advisors, and reporting needs. We map what exists before we touch a thing.

TYPICALLY · 1–2 WEEKS
02 · Onboarding

Stand up the operating layer.

Source-system connections, chart of accounts, controls, and reporting cadence — staged in our environment, audited, then yours.

TYPICALLY · 3–6 WEEKS
03 · Embedded

Senior team, on call.

Monthly close, real-time telemetry, board and investor reporting. The conversations that matter happen with the people who own the work.

ONGOING
04 · Quarterly Review

Recalibrate with intent.

Strategic check-in across capital, controls, and roadmap. Adjust scope, seat senior support where it's earned, retire what's no longer needed.

EVERY 90 DAYS

Featured Product · Spero Intelligence

The financial operating layer behind every Spero engagement.

A purpose-built workspace for senior finance teams — connected to the books, the bank, the cap table, and the people running the business. AI-native, audit-ready, and quietly precise.

  • Real-time financial telemetry. Cash, runway, burn, and unit economics streamed direct from source systems.
  • Board-ready reporting. Monthly packages, KPI decks, and lender memos generated and reviewed in hours, not weeks.
  • Embedded analyst layer. AI agents that surface anomalies, draft variance commentary, and prepare your team for every conversation.

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Brand Ethos

Finance as it should be in the modern era.

01

Institutional-grade

Senior judgment, controls, and discipline — applied with the precision of a firm that has stewarded capital for decades, not weeks.

02

AI-native

Workflows, decisions, and deliverables designed from the ground up around real-time intelligence — not bolted onto legacy spreadsheets.

03

White-glove

A senior finance team that knows your business intimately. No tickets, no handoffs, no roster of names you'll never meet.

Spero exists to redefine what modern financial leadership looks like. We deliver institutional-grade finance with the care, discretion, and accountability of a true white-glove partner — embedding ourselves alongside founders and executive teams as trusted stewards of capital, strategy, and scale.

By combining human judgment with AI-driven analysis, we move faster, see deeper, and surface clarity where traditional finance teams rely on lagging indicators and manual effort. Clients experience the confidence of a senior finance team that knows their business intimately, while benefiting from systems that continuously learn, adapt, and scale.

Leadership

A nimble team — accountable by design.

Portrait of Austin Argyle

Managing Partner

Austin Argyle

Leads the Enterprise and Fund Administration divisions, partnering with operating companies and fund managers on institutional finance.

Previously CFO at Sandlot Partners; EY.

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Partner

Chase Simonsen

Leads the Private Wealth divisions — Family Office, Bitcoin, and high-net-worth advisory — serving principals and multi-generational families.

Previously Sandlot Partners; Firth Partners.

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