A finance-AI curriculum, not just a score.
Lucid isn't only a benchmark. Every subscription unlocks an extensive Knowledge Hub — four curated learning tracks built specifically for CFOs, FDs and senior finance leaders. Board-ready reading, vendor maps, self-checks and a playbook for the next 12 months.
Board-grade context for every score
Each track maps directly to the dimensions Lucid scores you on — so the gap on your dashboard always has a chapter behind it.
Curated vendor map per category
Track C catalogues the current finance-AI solutions landscape category by category, with a curated, opinionated shortlist for each.
The CFO playbook, end to end
Track D walks you from strategy, prioritisation and build-vs-buy through governance, talent, change and a 12-month roadmap.
Four tracks. 38 chapters.
Browse the full curriculum below. Subscribers get the long-form chapters, takeaways, self-check questions and vendor refs inside the app.
The minimum vocabulary every CFO needs. Short reads, no maths.
- Why data matters8 min
- A 5-minute history of AI7 min
- Machine learning, in plain English9 min
- Deep learning7 min
- Large language models (LLMs)10 min
- Agentic AI: what it is and what you need to succeed11 min
Where AI actually pays back across the finance value chain.
- AI across the finance value chain10 min
- AI for the close & consolidation9 min
- AI for FP&A & forecasting10 min
- AI for AP/AR & working capital9 min
- AI for Tax & Treasury8 min
- AI for board & management reporting8 min
- AI for controls, audit & SOX9 min
- Data foundations for finance AI9 min
What's on the market today, by category, with curated vendor lists.
- ERPs with native AI7 min
- EPM / planning with native AI7 min
- Close & consolidation6 min
- AP / spend / invoice automation6 min
- AR / collections / O2C6 min
- Tax5 min
- Treasury & cash5 min
- Lease & revenue accounting4 min
- Audit & controls5 min
- Document & contract intelligence5 min
- LLMs & copilots for finance7 min
- Agentic-AI platforms7 min
What you, the CFO, need to do to make AI in finance a strategic asset.
- Building an AI strategy for finance11 min
- Prioritising and sizing AI use-cases9 min
- Build vs buy vs embed8 min
- The finance AI operating model9 min
- Data foundations & contracts for finance AI8 min
- AI governance, risk & the EU AI Act for finance10 min
- Talent & upskilling8 min
- Vendor selection & commercials9 min
- Change management & adoption8 min
- Measuring ROI of finance AI7 min
- Ethics, bias, IP & confidentiality7 min
- The 12-month AI roadmap a CFO can take to the board10 min
Score yourself. Then actually level up.
Every paid plan includes the full Knowledge Hub alongside your benchmarked dashboard, sized opportunity and phased roadmap.