Hacking CPA | Financial Clarity for Owner-Operators
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How the work is built

This is your financial house.

We do a deep dive and design the blueprint. Then we build the foundation together. We support you as your controller and CFO. Then we envelop the entire system with the peer advisory board.

Start with an empty lot.

Every house goes up in the same order. Four layers, one at a time.

Step 1 · About 2 weeks

The Blueprint

We open the hood. A full financial systems discovery — every report, account, integration and habit feeding your numbers gets examined. We find what's lying, and why. Then we design what replaces it: which decisions are actually in front of you over the next twelve months, what the numbers have to tell you to answer them, and what the system has to do to get there. You approve the blueprint before we touch anything. Nobody starts anywhere else. And what the fix costs is part of it — I don't know that number before the deep dive, and neither does anyone who quotes you without one.

Step 2 · 2–6 weeks

The Foundation

We lay the foundation together: the tech stack, the SOPs, the people. We get it running, clean up the history where it needs cleaning, and make the whole thing smooth. Everyone gets a foundation — and if you already have a bookkeeper in-house, we work with them rather than around them.

Step 3 · Ongoing

The Support

We are your controller and your CFO. As your controller we handle the historical numbers, the close, and the reports you can actually lean on. As your CFO we handle what comes next — forecasting, scenarios, pricing, and a seat at the table while the call is still open. Both seats are ours. Most owners start with the controller work and add the CFO layer when the questions start pointing forward.

Step 4 · Ongoing

The Boardroom

The room where you stop deciding alone. Eight to ten owners from outside your industry, none with a stake in your answer, meeting monthly — plus a private one-on-one with me. What they give you is perspective, which is the one thing nobody inside your business can. The walls have to be up first: a board is only worth having when the numbers underneath it hold. The next board launches July 1, 2027.

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