Sakib Ahmed

About

Program manager with experience across product finance and finance systems. I bring a product-minded orientation to finance — drawn to the stories, systems, and infrastructure beneath the numbers.

Projects

The Earnings Library

Equity research-style reports for ten software companies. Ask Perplexity-style follow-ups with live answers generated by Claude.

Interactive Office Real Estate P&L Scenario Planner

A P&L scenario planning tool focused on office real estate CapEx and OpEx.

P&L Forecast Model

A design concept for forecasting revenue, sales capacity, product-led growth, and expenses for a fictional software company.

Reorg Simulator

Make a reorg as easy as dragging and dropping departments. Scenario plan changes to your cost center hierarchy and see the impact in real time.

P&L Tycoon

A text-based simulator game where you manage a small business's P&L. Somewhere between Zoo Tycoon and a Financial Model.

Selfscape

An AI-generated narrative portrait based on your Western zodiac, Chinese zodiac, Enneagram, and Myers-Briggs.

Writing

Lego Mindset vs. Woodworking Mindset

The difference between expecting things to snap together and doing the actual work of building.

The XY Problem

On wasting time solving your attempted solution instead of your actual problem.

Budget Creep: How Budgets Are Gamed and What to Do About It

How annual budgets create incentives for rational people to permanently inflate the company's cost base, one cycle at a time.

Why Storytelling Belongs at the Heart of Budget Design

The importance of narratability: the story your budget framework lets you tell determines whether it survives contact with reality.

Can Your Budget Tell the AI Story?

A follow-up on narratability: budget frameworks need to be redesigned for a world where human labor and AI compute are interchangeable.

The Measurement Paradox in Finance

Finance holds every other function accountable to metrics. Its own work is among the hardest to measure.

Feedback as the Antagonist

On honing the skill of discernment.

The Prettier Station

Drawing on Rory Sutherland's psycho-logic, the Linear founders' obsession with speed, and a reflection on a trip to London.

Stories Feel Like Understanding, But They Aren't

On the narrative fallacy and why our craving for stories leads us into our worst mistakes.