You get the forecasting and reporting depth usually reserved for larger companies — built and priced for a business doing $5M–$100M in revenue, without the cost of a full-time hire or a large advisory firm.
Larger companies get rolling forecasts, cash planning, and decision-ready reporting from full finance teams and large advisory firms — built for businesses far bigger than yours, and priced accordingly. We bring that same depth of forecasting and reporting to a business your size, scoped and priced to fit.
For businesses large enough to genuinely weigh a full-time CFO, here's how the economics compare anyway. A full-time CFO's real cost includes base pay, benefits, bonus or equity, the months spent recruiting, and the months after that spent ramping up. A fractional engagement replaces most of that cost structure entirely.
A fractional CFO has done this before, at other companies your size. The first month produces real reporting, not just orientation.
Engagement level moves up or down with what the company actually needs this quarter — a full-time hire's cost doesn't flex either direction.
A mis-hired CFO costs a year of salary and a year of bad decisions. A fractional engagement can be adjusted long before that damage compounds.
Same expertise, different cost structure — the comparison owners usually haven't run all the way through.
The real comparison isn't a fractional CFO's fee against zero — it's the fee against what already happens without forward-looking financial leadership in the room.
A cash crunch that shows up with no warning costs far more to fix in a week than it would have cost to see coming a quarter out. We tell you when a cash flow problem will hit, what's causing it, and how much time you actually have to solve it before it becomes a crisis.
Without project- or batch-level visibility, a business can be profitable on paper while specific jobs or runs erode the margin no one's watching.
Nobody wants to use a line of credit for operating expenses. But sometimes it makes sense — and knowing which situation you're in ahead of time beats finding out under pressure.
If you're not doing it at margin, more volume just means losing money faster. We help you see which combination of margin and volume actually gets you to the number you want.
Pricing is set after a consultation — based on company size, ERP complexity, and how much of the CFO function the business wants to hand off. That's the honest answer, and it's also why a real number here would be misleading before that conversation happens.
Financial packages and KPI tracking on a cadence you choose — the lightest engagement, for a business that mainly needs clean, consistent numbers.
Everything in reporting, plus a recurring working session on what the numbers mean and what to do next.
A regular seat at the table — budgeting, forecasting, financing conversations, and strategy, on an ongoing cadence.
We scope reporting frequency to what you actually need, and to what your systems allow us to access. In testing, a full reporting cycle ran in under an hour — fast enough that we can hold nightly refresh slots for clients who want them. The more often you need updated numbers, the more it costs to deliver them; that's a dial you set, not a fixed tier. What we don't offer is a monthly-only service — by the time a month-old number reaches you, too much of what it's telling you has already happened.
A 30-minute call at no cost: how you get your numbers today, what you wish you knew sooner, and whether an engagement makes sense.