Pricing
Transparent starting points. No hourly meter.
Six ways to engage, priced by deliverables and cadence rather than hours. The numbers below are where engagements start. The engagement letter is where they are fixed.
Fractional Controller
$2,500/ month
Recurring close, reporting, controls, and team accountability.
Monthly close plus weekly review
- Month-end close by the tenth business day
- Reconciled balance sheet every month
- AR, AP, and payroll review
- Financial statements with commentary
- CPA and bank coordination
Fractional CFO
$3,500/ month
Embedded cash, forecast, profitability, and decision leadership.
Two to four days a month plus weekly cash
- 13-week cash forecast
- Monthly management package and KPIs
- Margin by job or division
- Rolling forecast, reforecast quarterly
- Lender and ownership reporting
CFO Advisory
$5,000/ month
Senior thought partnership and a dependable monthly rhythm.
Monthly executive cadence
- Monthly operating review with ownership
- Forecast and plan ownership
- Pricing, capital, and financing decisions
- Board and investor preparation
- Oversight of controller and accounting team
Operating CFO
$8,500/ month
13-week cash, rolling forecast, stakeholders, and a weekly cadence.
Weekly operating rhythm
- Weekly cash meeting and disbursement control
- Rolling forecast maintained weekly
- Lender, surety, and investor management
- Turnaround and cash-crisis leadership
- Operating reviews with department leaders
Embedded CFO
$12,500+/ month
High-change, financing, transition, or rapid-growth situations.
As the situation requires
- Near full-time executive presence
- Refinancing, restructuring, or transaction leadership
- Acquisition integration and reporting standardization
- Formal proceedings financial support alongside counsel
- Defined step-down as the situation stabilizes
Interim Leadership
Custom
Full-role CFO or Controller coverage matched to duration, condition, and workload.
Three to nine months, typically
- In the seat within one to two weeks
- Full scope of the vacant role
- Stakeholder continuity
- Recruiting support for the permanent hire
- Documented handoff
Final pricing reflects company size, transaction volume, entity count, reporting condition, urgency, leadership cadence, and stakeholder demands. Legal, tax, audit, software, travel, one-time cleanup, and unusually compressed deadlines are separate unless expressly included. Every engagement begins with an assessment and a written scope.
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What a full-time hire costs
A full-time CFO or controller carries salary, payroll burden, bonus, often equity, a recruiting fee, and months of ramp-up. Our calculator adds it up with your numbers and compares it to the tier that fits your company.
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Cleanup and reset engagements
Accounting cleanup and the finance department reset are scoped as projects with a start, an end, and a fixed price set after the diagnostic. They usually hand off to a fractional engagement, but they do not require one.
FAQ
Questions about pricing
Why publish prices at all?
Because it saves everyone a meeting. Owners who see the starting points can decide in a minute whether the conversation is worth having. The starting points are real, and most engagements land within a reasonable distance of them once scope is known.
What moves the price above the starting point?
Company size, transaction volume, number of entities, the condition of the books when we arrive, urgency, the cadence you need, and the stakeholders we report to. A three-entity contractor with a surety, a bank, and a messy WIP schedule is more work than a single-entity service company with clean books.
What is not included?
Legal, tax, audit, software subscriptions, travel, one-time cleanup projects, and unusually compressed deadlines are separate unless the engagement letter expressly includes them. We say so in writing before we start.
Is there a contract or a minimum?
An initial 90-day period, then month to month with 30 days' notice on either side. Interim engagements have a defined duration and step-down. There are no annual contracts and no early-termination fees.
Do you charge hourly?
No. Hourly billing rewards slow work. We price by deliverables and cadence so the incentive is to get the close done, the forecast right, and the decision made.
Can we start with the controller tier and add CFO later?
Yes, and many clients do. The controller tier fixes the past; the CFO tier decides the future. When the books are trustworthy the CFO work goes faster, so starting with the controller is often the economical sequence.
Financial assessment
Get a number for your situation.
Tell us the size of the company, the state of the books, and what is due next. We will tell you which tier fits and what it would start at.