Your board page

Cash today — and the day it runs out
Runway — in months, not in adjectives
Gross margin — by product, not blended into mush
Burn — and which line moved it this month
Debtors over 60 days — with names against them
The one number — you should be arguing about this month

The same page every month, in your hands before the board meeting rather than during it. When the shape stops being a surprise, the conversation moves on to what to do about it.

Fractional CFO

Know your runway to the week.

Senior finance two or three days a month, without a six-figure salary attached to it. We build the numbers, work out what they say, and then say it out loud in front of your board.

How the first month goes What this costs

What a fractional CFO cannot do

Create cash — We can find it earlier and stop it leaving. We cannot invent it
Make the numbers say something else — If the margin is thin, the deck will say the margin is thin
Raise your round — Investors decide that. We make sure your numbers survive their questions
Get you the facility — The bank decides. We build the case and prepare the pack
Replace your bookkeeper — We need clean books to read. If yours aren't clean, fix that first
Be there every day — Two or three days a month is the deal. Anything daily is a different hire

None of that stops the job being worth the money. It only means you know what you are buying before the first invoice rather than after the third.

The first thirty days

We read everything

Bank, ledger, contracts, and whatever model you're using now. You get a list of what doesn't reconcile — and we fix it rather than just mention it.

One model

Driven by the handful of things that actually move the business: price, volume, headcount, and the payment terms nobody has renegotiated since year one.

The number

Runway to the week, with every assumption written next to it so that anyone in the room can argue with it. Several of them should.

The board page

The one page above, presented by us — with the awkward question raised by us, rather than by an investor four weeks later.

Days a month, priced as days

Two days

$2,400/month

Month-end reviewed, not merely closed
The model updated with what actually happened
Runway, margin and the debtor list
Your board page written
The phone between visits, included

Ask about two days

Three days

$3,500/month

Everything in two days
We present at your board meeting
Investor and bank questions handled
Hiring and pricing modelled before you commit
A named second, so you're never blocked on one diary

Ask about three days

Raise or exit sprint

$9,000 the project

Data room built and defended
Model rebuilt to survive diligence
Every likely question drafted and answered
In the room for the meetings
Priced as a project because it has an end

Ask about a sprint

One month's notice either way, on all three. The sprint is quoted as a project rather than a retainer — if it drifts past what we scoped we re-quote it in front of you, instead of quietly adding days.

You don't need this yet if…

Your books aren't up to date

Then hire a bookkeeper first and come back. We would only be reading fiction very expensively, and you'd be paying us to notice.

You're pre-revenue with one product

A spreadsheet and one honest hour a month will genuinely do it. Spend the money on the thing you're selling instead.

You want someone to agree with you

There are consultants who will, and they're cheaper. Half of what you're buying here is somebody willing to say the unwelcome thing in front of your board.

If any of those is you we'll say so on the first call and there'll be no invoice. It costs us a fee and saves you roughly six months.

★★★★★

“First time anyone had shown me the runway with the assumptions written beside it. I disagreed with two, we changed them, and the number got worse. That was the useful part.”

Nkechi O.

Founder, B2B software

★★★★★

“Our investor asked the margin question in month four and it had already been answered in the pack. That is the whole value, and it fits on one page.”

Sam H.

Chair, consumer brand

Start with the awkward question

Tell us the number you can't answer right now. First call is free, forty-five minutes, and it ends either with a proposal or with the six-month list.

Ask about a few days a month

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