Battle Card: Deep Fission CFO Sales Trigger

🚀 Battle Card: Deep Fission, Inc.

• Mark Schmitz, Chief Financial Officer · 🔗 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deep-fission/)

• This Deep Fission, Inc. sales trigger signals accelerated finance operations ahead of pilot deployments and public filings. → Source

• Scaling finance reporting for complex regulatory compliance as a newly public company

• Securing and managing capital for underground SMR pilot programs

• Primary: Financial reporting automation → Speed up SEC filings & reduce errors

• Expansion: Treasury management platform → Optimize cash flow & lower financing costs

• HQ: Berkeley, CA

• Employees: ≈ 50

• Rev: ≈ $5 M

• Website: [deepfission.com](https://deepfission.com/)

🤼 Competitive Intel

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• Vena Solutions (vena.io) — FP&A
• Unique edge: Excel interface with workflow
• Evaluated by Finance Ops for ease-of-use

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

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✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑<your company>❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑an automated financial reporting platform❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑50% faster month-end close❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call❑
TONE          = ❑friendly❑

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Mark
COMPANY     = Deep Fission, Inc.
DEPT        = Finance
SIZE        = ≈ 3
BOTTLENECK  = scaling finance reporting for complex regulatory compliance
EVENT       = new CFO
DETAIL      = appointment as CFO
PAIN        = scaling finance reporting for complex regulatory compliance
SRC         = http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=ftfLlWd9aZbF2NXfwppam3Bd664=&newsLang=en&newsId=20251007550756&div=41152219
SIM_CO      = Plug Power
WIN_METRIC  = reduced month-end close time by 50%
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ 10
EMP_EST     = ≈ 50
REV_EST     = ≈ $5M

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: ≈ 3-person Finance

Mark—noticed your Finance team is ≈ 3.

That’s when scaling finance reporting for complex regulatory compliance slows growth.

We helped Plug Power fix this with an automated financial reporting platform.

Result: reduced month-end close time by 50%.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ 10.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
Saw your post about appointment as CFO — scaling finance reporting for complex regulatory compliance.  
an automated financial reporting platform. 50% faster month-end close.  
Quick chat?