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AI consulting
that's actually been done

A boutique practice run by a practicing CFO. Enterprise-grade AI systems for finance and operations — live within 24 hours of kickoff, not six months. No bloated team. No Big 4 invoice. No juniors staffed to your account.

24-HR KICKOFF CFO-LED · NO JUNIORS FIXED SCOPES · NO HOURLY BILLING
24HOURS
// THE 24-HOUR PROMISE

From signed engagement
to live work.

Contract signed Monday morning. Something is running in your environment Tuesday morning. You will not find that turnaround anywhere else in this market — and we put it in writing.

// 01 — TENURE
15+ yrs
In the CFO seat at growth-stage and PE-backed businesses.
// 02 — SCALE
$250M+
Cumulative annual revenue managed across operating roles.
// 03 — REACH
185
Countries of operating scope across past finance leadership roles.
// 04 — DEPLOYED
400–800hrs
Reclaimed annually per engagement through AI & automation.

The problem isn't that AI doesn't work. The problem is that almost nobody building AI tools has ever been a CFO.

AI consulting is broken.

Every CFO and operator we talk to has the same story: overpriced firms, deck-ware roadmaps, and pilot projects that never make it to production. You don't need another slide deck. You need someone who's done this work, in the trenches, with real P&L on the line.

01 / OVERPRICED

$300K for a roadmap deck

Big 4 firms charge enterprise rates for generic frameworks you could pull from a YouTube tutorial. You're paying for the logo and a partner who shows up for the kickoff and the bill.

02 / THEORETICAL

Consultants who've never shipped

Most "AI advisors" have read about it. They haven't deployed Copilot across a 500-person finance team, wired Power BI to a live ERP, or watched their own automation break at month-end.

03 / SLOW

Six months to start, twelve to deliver

By the time the discovery phase wraps, the tools have changed twice and your team has lost interest. Real AI implementation moves in weeks, not quarters.

Six things. Done properly.

Outcome-focused engagements. We start with the business problem, not the tool — then deploy the right stack to fix it.

AI Strategy & Roadmap

Where to start. What to automate. What to leave alone. A clear, opinionated 90-day plan based on what's actually shipping in your industry.

discoveryroadmapROI model

Financial Dashboards & Reporting

Power BI dashboards connected to your live data. Board-ready outputs that build themselves. Month-end close measured in hours, not days.

Power BISQLERP

Operations Automation

Email triage, approval chains, document processing, vendor onboarding. The high-volume, low-judgment work that drains your team — gone.

Power AutomateZapierMake

Commercial & GTM AI

Dynamic pricing tools, pipeline analytics, churn prediction, customer intelligence. AI applied where it actually moves revenue.

pricingCRManalytics

AI Tool Implementation

OpenAI, Claude, Microsoft Copilot stack. Connectors, custom GPTs, internal agents — wired into your existing tools, not bolted on.

OpenAIClaudeCopilot

Executive AI Education

Get your leadership team fluent — without the fear and without the hype. Workshops, sandbox sessions, and decision frameworks that stick.

workshopsframeworksboard prep
// Also offered

Fractional CFO Retainer

Board-level financial leadership without the $450K+ all-in cost of a full-time hire. Strategic planning, investor readiness, M&A support — with AI implementation baked in by default. For growth-stage and PE-backed companies who need a CFO but aren't ready (or sized) for a permanent one.

Discuss a retainer →
Strategic planning & FP&A Investor & board reporting M&A & financing support Embedded AI implementation Monthly retainer · fixed fee

See what we actually build.

Four live, clickable dashboards using the same patterns we deploy for clients — plugged into placeholder data for demonstration. Same logic, same layouts, same look.

Sharp ICP. Honest about who we're not for.

We do our best work for a specific kind of business. If you're not on the left side of this list, we'll tell you up front — and often point you somewhere good.

[ Right fit ]

The shape of a great client

  • $10M – $250M in annual revenue
  • Finance team of 2 – 15 people
  • PE-backed, family-owned, or founder-led
  • CFO or Controller looking for leverage, not replacement
  • Board or investors asking for sharper reporting
  • Ready to actually implement — not just talk strategy
[ Not a fit ]

We'll tell you up front

  • Pre-revenue startups still hunting product-market fit
  • Fortune 500 procurement processes & security review cycles
  • Anyone shopping for an "AI strategy deck" to put on a shelf
  • Hourly-access seekers or ongoing back-office work
  • Teams without exec buy-in to actually deploy what we build
  • Race-to-the-bottom on price — we are not the cheapest option

Four steps. Timelines posted publicly.

Most consulting firms hide their timelines because they're embarrassing. Here's ours, in writing.

[ 01 — DISCOVERY ]
30-min call

Discovery

A 30-minute working call. Where the pain is, where the data lives, what you've already tried. By the end you'll know if there's a fit; we'll know what to scope.

[ 02 — PROPOSAL ]
within 48 hours

Scoped Proposal

A fixed-scope, fixed-fee proposal in your inbox within two business days. No hourly billing. No change orders. No surprises later.

[ 03 — KICKOFF ]
live within 24 hours

Kickoff

Engagement signed Monday morning. Something is live and running in your environment by Tuesday. You will not find that turnaround anywhere else in this market.

[ 04 — SHIP & HANDOFF ]
4–6 weeks · 30-day transition

Ship & Handoff

Full build to production in four to six weeks. Documentation your team can actually use. A 30-day transition window included in every engagement.

Results from real engagements.

Anonymized for confidentiality. Every number was measured before and after deployment.

5d → 6h

Reduced month-end close cycle through automated reconciliation and reporting.

SaaS · 200 staff
$2.4M

Annualized margin uplift from a dynamic pricing tool deployed in 9 weeks.

Distribution · mid-market
−87%

Drop in manual invoice processing time after an AP automation rollout.

Services · enterprise
14 days

From kickoff to live Power BI executive dashboard for a private equity portco.

PE-backed · <100 staff

Posted publicly. Fixed-fee. No surprise change orders.

Three ways to engage on a build. Pick the ownership model that fits how your team prefers to operate. Every option is fixed-scope and fixed-fee — no hourly billing, ever.

[ A — BUY OUTRIGHT ]
$45Kone-time

You own it. Self-hosted on your infrastructure. Best when your team has the technical bench to run it long-term.

  • Full source & ownership
  • Deployed to your environment
  • 30-day handoff included
  • Documentation & team training
[ C — FULLY HOSTED ]
$4,500/month

Zero upfront. Maximum optionality. 12-month minimum, then month-to-month. The lowest-risk way to validate fit.

  • No upfront cost
  • Continuous service
  • Easy to start, easy to stop
  • 12-month minimum
For comparison: typical Big 4 / boutique engagements run $150K – $500K+ for the same scope.  ·  Fixed scope. Fixed fee. No hourly billing. Ever.

FAQ

Most engagements kick off within two to three weeks of the first call. For a focused diagnostic or dashboard build, you can be looking at a working prototype inside three to four weeks. We don't pad timelines and we don't run multi-month discovery phases before anything ships.
Yes — and we prefer it. We work alongside your IT, security, and data teams, not around them. We'll work within your existing tooling (Microsoft, Google Workspace, your CRM, your ERP, your data warehouse) and respect whatever change-management, review, and access controls you already have in place.
Intentionally limited. We take a small number of engagements at a time to keep quality high and turnaround fast. Most projects kick off within two to three weeks of signing. If we can't take you on, we'll say so — and often point you somewhere good.
Heavy specialisation in the Microsoft stack (Copilot, Power BI, Power Automate, Fabric, Azure OpenAI), plus OpenAI and Anthropic Claude APIs, Zapier, Make, and the major data pipeline and CRM ecosystems. We're tool-agnostic in principle — but very opinionated about what we'd actually deploy in your environment.
Anything from a single $5K diagnostic for a small business to multi-month fixed-fee implementations and ongoing retainers for mid-market and enterprise teams. Common shapes: a 4-week dashboard build, a 6–10 week automation rollout, or a monthly retainer for a leadership team running an internal AI program.
Plenty. We'll tell you exactly where current models are unreliable — unsupervised judgement calls on high-stakes decisions, anything requiring real-time precision against messy unstructured data, full autonomy without human review. If the right answer is "don't automate this yet," we say so. That conversation has saved clients more money than most of the builds.

No contact forms.
No sales funnels.
No gatekeepers.

Email goes straight to the practice. We respond within one business day — and if there's a fit, you'll have a scoped proposal in hand within 48 hours of that first call.

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