How Mosaic AI answers board questions in seconds

Mosaic AI is a fast-growing machine learning infrastructure company. Like many venture-backed startups, it reports to its board every month, and every board meeting brings a fresh round of questions: how is burn trending, what are we spending on compute, how many months of runway do we have if revenue slips?

The old routine

Before each board meeting, Mosaic’s head of finance spent two to three days pulling numbers from the bank, the card provider, the payroll system and the accounting tool. Follow-up questions during the meeting usually meant an awkward “we’ll get back to you”.

One source of truth

Mosaic moved its accounts, cards, bill pay and treasury onto Saro. Because everything shares one ledger, the numbers the board cares about are always current, and they reconcile without a spreadsheet in between.

Asking questions in plain English

The bigger change came with Saro AI. During board prep, Mosaic’s CFO now asks questions directly and gets answers with links to the underlying transactions.

• “What was our net burn in each of the last six months?”

• “How much of our cloud spend is committed versus on-demand?”

• “If revenue grows 10% slower than plan, when does runway drop below twelve months?”

• “Which five vendors grew fastest this quarter?”

Because every answer cites its sources, the team can show the board exactly where a number comes from, which has made the meetings shorter and the discussions more useful.

Results

• Board pack preparation: from three days to half a day.

• Follow-up questions: answered live during the meeting.

• Compute costs: 18% lower after Saro AI flagged unused reserved capacity.

“Our board used to ask questions and wait a week. Now they ask and we answer before the next slide.”

Keeping the numbers trustworthy

Speed only helps if the numbers are right. Mosaic’s finance team reviews every board answer before it’s shared, and because each one links to the source transactions, that review takes minutes. The team also locks each month once it’s closed, so the figures the board saw in March are the same figures they’ll see in June.

Next, Mosaic is building a live investor view: a read-only dashboard with the metrics the board asks for most, updated automatically from Saro every day.