Have you seen Frank? · 47 tabs · 12 linked workbooks · 1 password · 43 days of cash · “Not now, Emily” · DO NOT DELETE · He sleeps on a yoga mat · Frank didn’t disappear. Frank escaped. · GET SHEET DONE ·

“He sleeps on a yoga
mat?”

Whereis Frank?

Packa’s FP&A Manager vanished the night before the
Board meeting. He left behind a 47-tab model, twelve
linked workbooks and one password nobody has.
Help us find him. Or at least help us open the file.

Watch Episode 1 Enter Frank’s computer Report a sighting
? MISSING

FRANK

47 tabs
1 password
0 trace

-F

Emily, side-eye
Emily · Controller
Drew, hands on hips
Drew · CFO
Rachel, chin in hand, dreaming
Rachel · Bookkeeper
Joshua, mid-explanation
Joshua · Accountant

“Not now, Emily.”

tried. Joshua failed.
Joshua is still trying...

Frank Is Missing.
The investigation so far.

Drew and Joshua staring at the wall behind Frank’s desk EP 1

The Escape

A mug, a poster, a man-sized hole.
Frank didn’t disappear. Frank escaped.

Watch now

You’ve been Franked.
We all have.

Every finance team has had a Frank. The one who knew where the cash logic lived and why the tab was called DO NOT DELETE. Then one morning the chair is empty, the model is locked, and the Board meets tomorrow.

Joshua staring at Frank’s monitor in disbelief

“I work with Frank. I don’t understand Frank.”

Joshua, Episode 1
Franked(verb)/fraŋkt/

To inherit a colleague’s spreadsheet after they’ve left, along with none of the knowledge needed to open it.

“We got Franked two weeks before close.”

Term coined by the Datarails Frank Recovery Unit

Have you been Franked?

Join the search party

Help find Frank.
Get the shirt.

Sign up for the search and we’ll send you the official Where’s Frank T-shirt. Wear it to Vegas. Someone might recognise you.

Where’s Frank T-shirt in an evidence bag

Frank’s Computer

Packa has forty-three days.
You have Frank’s computer.

The first escape room for finance leaders. Crack Frank’s riddles, save Packa. Excel experts only.

Sit at Frank’s desk

Packa survival meter

community total · live
43 days leftBoard approves

Top Frank crackers

  1. 01 ···
  2. 02 ···
  3. 03 ···

Prizes

[NOT YET SUPPLIED]
full rules on the game page

Floppy disk Franks password
PACKA-FPA-01 · Frank’s Computer[game URL]
Frank’s Computer: Windows XP desktop with sticky notes, the Board Pack checklist and a new e-mail from Diane
▶ Play it for real

The map

Have you got a Frank?
Tag your Frank.

Every team has one. Here’s the proof. The pins are real Franks from real finance teams, anonymised. Click one to meet the Frank and the Frank problem. Then drop yours: where it happened, what they left behind, and how long before anyone trusted the numbers again.

Group 1410115090

Frank #12 · Columbus,OH

Left behind
A 38-tab budget.
One tab called FINAL_final_v9.

Numbers trusted again in 7 weeks

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Group 1410115091

Frank #27 · Manchester,UK

Left behind
Every macro. Zero comments. A sticky note that just says “don’t”.

Numbers trusted again in  1 quarter

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Group 1410115092

Frank #41 · Austin, TX

Left behind
The only login to the ERP export. And a cactus.

Numbers trusted again in still waiting

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Each pin is a Frank. Press Tab to move between pins and Enter to open one. Escape closes it. Plus and minus zoom, 0 resets the view.

Tag your Frank

The quiz · 10 questions · 100 points

How Frank are you?

How much of your finance data lives in one person’s head? Ten questions tell you how spread out your knowledge really is, and how doomed you’d be if that person walked out tomorrow.

Get your Frank risk score, your certificate, and a LinkedIn badge to commiserate in public.

Take the quiz

0%Frank risk

Sound familiar? · question 1 of 10

There’s a forecast with a tab called “DO_NOT_TOUCH” that everyone’s too scared to touch.

Drew, hands on hips

Drew · CFO

Group 1410115089

Drew took the quiz. Drew scored 15% “Frank-free.”

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Last known location

Frank was last seen
heading to Vegas.

The Microsoft Excel World Championship Finals. If Frank is anywhere, he’s there. Stay until the end.

Meet us in Vegas

Got a lead? Bring it to the Missing Persons Desk at our booth.

Greetings from Las Vegas postcard
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Got a lead? Bring it to the Missing Persons Desk at our booth.

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PassengerFrank

DatesDec 1–2

VenueHyperX Arena, Las Vegas

EventMEWC Finals

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Rachel pointing, mid-shout
Tip line: Rachel
Emily, leaning in with a knowing look
TOLD YOU SO

Emily · Controller, Packa Corp · the only one who knew what she was talking about

3

times she
flagged the risk

0

times anyone
acted on it

A note from the search partner

Here’s the part where we sell you something.
Emily would like it noted she said it first.

Here’s the thing nobody at Packa wants to hear: the problem was never that Frank left. It’s that the model, the assumptions and the real forecast all left with him. One person at Packa saw it coming. Her name is Emily. She’s the Controller. The CFO told her it wasn’t the time. Three times.

Datarails FinanceOS keeps the numbers in one governed place, pulled live from your ERP, CRM, HRIS and spreadsheets, with every change versioned and every figure traceable back to the system it came from. Your models stay in Excel, Excel-connected to that layer, so the formulas still work and the numbers underneath stop living on one desktop. When someone leaves, the numbers stay. So does the audit trail.

We’ll keep looking for Frank. You don’t have to. You just have to listen to your Emily.

“Where CROs have Salesforce, CFOs have Datarails.” Forbes
Listen to Emily

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