Where the data lives and what leaves

CFO Foundry is a desktop application with no server and no database. It reads the exports in a company's data room and writes self-contained HTML reports and Excel workbooks.

Each company is one folder, the mandate: its data room, its configuration and its reports, side by side. The folder sits on the computer that runs CFO Foundry or on a network share inside the company. The installation is a separate folder that holds no client data, so an update replaces it without touching the mandate.

Financial data never leaves the company's machines. The software goes online at four moments, and each concerns only the software or its licence.

The activation and the check-in name the installation, its version and the company its licence is issued to. Neither carries financial data or file contents: no figure, no account, no document and no employee data.

If the licence server cannot be reached, the installed licence stays as it is and the reports keep building until the licence's offline grace period ends.

With readers set up, each report file becomes a login page. It carries one copy of the report per reader, encrypted for that reader and opened with their own password, and each copy holds only the views granted to that person. A view that is not granted is removed from the copy, with its figures.

Excel downloads can be switched off per reader. A password has at least eight characters; the app generates twenty.

The logins settle who in the company reads what. A file that is passed on can be attacked offline for as long as anyone likes, so the length of the password is the protection, and a report file deserves the care of any confidential document.

The HR and hours exports hold personal data: names, salaries, joiners and leavers, hours worked. They stay in the mandate folder on the company's machines, like every other export.

The company is the controller for this data under the GDPR. It decides who sets up and reads the reports, and the logins can leave the Workforce view out of a reader's copy.

The privacy policy covers this website, its contact form and its visitor count.

CFO Foundry computes every figure by fixed rules on the computer it runs on. No data is uploaded to a cloud service, sent to an AI model or used to train one. There is no CFO Foundry account to sign in to.

A licence is issued to one company and belongs to its mandate folder. It covers generating reports and workbooks for that company's entities, and it is verified on the computer itself, without a connection, within an offline grace period.

Reports and workbooks already generated stay usable for good, with or without a licence: they open in any browser and in Excel. An update replaces the software only; the data room, the configuration and the reports stay as they are.