Founder

We bought the tools. Then we couldn't use them.

Vakari was started by a CFO who spent 25 years in the Office of the CFO. This is why.

The status quo

For 25 years I worked in the Office of the CFO. I bought the tools we now compete with. I signed the contracts, sponsored the rollouts and stood in front of the company to launch them.

The wake-up call

After one of those rollouts, a market-leading procurement suite, I needed to buy something. I opened the system I had chosen, paid for and championed, and I couldn't figure out how to open a request.

I was the CFO. If I couldn't open a request, how would the rest of the company?Amir Jafari, Founder and CEO

Then I saw the pattern everywhere.

  • Our policies, narratives and flowcharts lived in binders we pulled out for the auditors, not in the systems that ran the work.
  • There was so much data in the Office of the CFO, and I still had to Slack five people for a simple answer.
  • We bought BlackLine and FloQast, and my team was still reconciling, because of a human error the system should have caught the moment it happened.
What we built

So we built Vakari. Not another tool: a different architecture. One record from the first request to the last journal entry. Anyone can ask in plain English, so people actually use it, and when people use it, the policy holds. Your policy runs the process instead of describing it. And errors are stopped where they start, so there is nothing left to reconcile.

The team

We've sat in your chair.

Amir Jafari

Founder & CEO

Twenty-five years in the Office of the CFO, including as CFO and COO. Built product at ServiceNow for its first finance and legal business unit. Implemented and operated the procurement, contract, AP and close tools Vakari now brings onto one record.

Ajith Warrier

CTO

Serial founder. Built ML and big-data systems that ran at scale before agentic AI was a phrase. Three companies, two acquisitions. The technical conviction behind Vakari's data-first architecture: documents become data, and the data is the product.

What we believe

Four principles, from four moments.

If the CFO can't use it, no one will.

Anyone asks in plain English. The agent does the rest, and adoption drives compliance.

Your policy should run the process.

Not sit in a binder until the auditors arrive.

Data should be connected.

One record, so a simple question has a simple answer.

Prevention beats reconciliation.

Catch the error where it starts, and there's nothing to tie out.

What we will never do: ask you to replace your ERP, or act without your team's confirmation.

Backed by

Fernweh
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Ayna

Two operator-led firms with deep conviction in agentic AI for the Office of the CFO. We share the thesis: the next great finance company isn't built on the shape of the last one.

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