Flagship project · 30 days
Investor Ready in 30 Days
Model, valuation, investor deck and data room — all of it, in 30 days.
OngoingMonthly retainerFrom $5,000/mo
The Embedded Finance Department
For companies that need CFO-level financial leadership without hiring full-time. One point of accountability for the numbers instead of three part-time ones.
What this is
Most owners end up with a bookkeeper, an accountant and whoever is building the forecast this quarter — three people, no single owner of the truth. This replaces that with one accountable finance function.
Books closed by working day ten. The same reporting pack every month, so you can compare like with like. And someone to ring when a decision needs a number behind it.
At a glance
- Fee
- From $5,000/mo
- Shape
- Monthly retainer
- Close
- By working day 10
- Term
- Rolling, 30 days notice
- Includes
- Bookkeeping oversight
- Access
- Direct, not ticketed
How it runs
The shape of the work.
- Month 1
Take-on
Chart of accounts, reconciliations, reporting pack design and a close calendar you can hold us to.
- Monthly
Close and report
Bookkeeping oversight, reconciliations, close by working day ten, management pack with commentary, rolling cash forecast.
- Quarterly
Planning and judgment
Budget versus actual, reforecast, board or lender reporting, and the pricing, hiring and capital decisions that come with them.
What you get
Everything delivered, listed.
One engagement, one fee, one set of assumptions behind all of it.
- Monthly close by working day ten
- Management reporting pack with written commentary
- 13-week rolling cash flow forecast
- Budget versus actual with variance explanation
- Board and lender reporting in the format they ask for
- KPI reporting tied to the accounts, not a separate spreadsheet
- Annual budget build and quarterly reforecast
- Direct access for decisions between reporting dates
- Fee
- From $5,000/mo
- Shape
- Monthly retainer
- Close
- By working day 10
- Term
- Rolling, 30 days notice
- Includes
- Bookkeeping oversight
- Access
- Direct, not ticketed
Included capabilities
What this engagement is built from.
Each capability has its own page — the method, the output format and the standard it is held to.
Capability
Monthly close & controls
Books closed by working day ten, in the same format every month.
CapabilityBoard & lender reporting
Covenant packages, board packs and investor updates in the format they actually want.
Capability13-week cash flow forecasting
The single most useful tool in a small business. Updated weekly, owner-friendly.
CapabilityFinancial models
Three-statement, monthly, driver-based. Built so an analyst can follow it without ringing you.
Common questions
Asked before every one of these.
Do you replace my bookkeeper?
Either way works. We can oversee the bookkeeper you have, or run the whole ledger. What does not work is nobody owning the close.
Is there a minimum term?
No. It is rolling with thirty days notice. Work that has to be locked in by contract usually is not working.
Can you handle a raise while on retainer?
Yes — transaction work is scoped separately so the monthly reporting does not quietly slip while a deal runs.
Other engagements
If this is not the right starting point.
Next step
Thirty minutes. No pitch. Your situation, and what we would do about it.
If we are a fit, we will say so. If we are not, you will hear that too, and where to look instead. Either way you leave with a clearer picture of what good finance looks like for your business.