Insights
Written for clients, published for everyone.
No thought leadership and no outlooks. These are the notes we would otherwise send one founder at a time.
- Metrics
The burn multiple is the only number that survives a down round
Growth rate gets you the meeting. Capital efficiency gets you the term sheet — and it is the one metric founders systematically fail to compute honestly.
6 min read - Forecasting
Your forecast is a grid, not a model
If changing one assumption means editing forty cells, you do not have a financial model. You have a picture of one moment's opinion.
5 min read - Operations
How to close the books in six days
A three-week close is not an accounting problem. It is a sequencing problem, and it is costing you the first half of every month.
5 min read - Reporting
Board decks that actually get read
Sixty slides sent the night before produce a meeting about the slides. Twelve sent on Friday produce a meeting about the business.
4 min read - Operations
What a finance audit finds in the first two weeks
Across a hundred and forty engagements, the same five problems turn up in nearly every company — and none of them are accounting errors.
5 min read
Next step
Thirty minutes,
and no documents.
The first call is about what you are deciding and what your current numbers can and cannot answer. If we are not the right team for it — or you only need one of the three tiers — we will say so and point you somewhere better.