Fractional CFO leadership for your next stage of growth.
Senior finance leadership across planning, cash flow and board reporting.
Growing businesses need financial leadership before every role can be filled internally. We work alongside founders and finance teams on planning, cash flow, reporting and the financial decisions behind the next stage of growth.
A finance partner who runs the work.
Choose where you need finance leadership.
Build a budget around operating priorities.
Develop budgets with the people responsible for delivery. Connect spending and revenue assumptions to business priorities, then establish a regular process for review.
Operating assumptions connected to the financial plan.
The operator's playbook for agentic AI in the finance function.
A practical guide to selecting finance workflows for AI, preparing the information they need and defining review before deployment.
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the outcome.
The Squared Method.
Four connected stages, shaped around the decision your business needs to make.
Diagnose
Agree what needs to change. Map the workflow, identify the constraint and establish who owns the result.
A defined problem, a baseline and an agreed scope.
Design
Work through the decisions, exceptions and responsibilities before implementation begins.
A proposed workflow or model, with assumptions and checks documented.
Deploy
Put the work into use alongside your team. Test the handoffs and prepare the people who will run it.
A working implementation, operating guidance and a named owner.
Defend
Review the result against the original question. Keep the evidence clear enough for the next review or handover.
A review record, supporting evidence and a plan for ongoing ownership.
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Tell us where finance needs to provide better information or leadership. We will discuss the current process and whether ongoing support or a defined project fits the need.
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