Strategic finance · Operations · AI

Strategic leadership that empowers innovators to scale

We partner with startups and growth-stage companies to build the financial and operational infrastructure that accelerates progress, unlocks opportunity, and positions you to win.

Tailored strategy. Trusted partnership. Transformative growth.

Financial strategy that attracts the right capital. Operational strength that enables growth. The confidence to navigate complexity and create lasting value.

What we do

Tailored for sustainable, strategic growth

Strategic Finance

Three-year business plans, annual roadmaps, and financial models built to support your trajectory and attract the right capital.

Fractional CFO & COO

Senior operators embedded in your team — guiding finance, operations, and the people making it happen.

Capital & Network Access

Strategic introductions, pitch preparation, and financial expertise to help you secure the funding and partnerships that accelerate progress.

Team Building & Structure

Right-sized teams for your stage. We help you assess, structure, and evolve your organization as you expand.

AI Infrastructure · Underpins everything above

The layer beneath all four

Automation and data infrastructure built into the way your team works — so plans stay current, reporting runs itself, and your people spend their time on judgment, not data entry.

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AutomationData & reportingForecastingWorkflow design
The AI practice

AI capability, built into your team

Not another tool rollout. We build the systems and teach the workflows — practical AI, built around your team and taught so it stays long after we're gone.

Assess

Where AI moves your needle — and where it doesn't.

Build

Practical workflows, built around how your team works.

Train

Hands-on upskilling, from staff to boardroom.

Stay sharp

Quarterly refreshes as the landscape shifts.

We start by learning your work.

Before anything gets built, we sit with your team and watch how the work actually happens — the spreadsheets, the inboxes, the handoffs. The real problem lives there, and it's rarely the one in the brief.

We train your teams how to use AI independently.

Hands-on training inside your real workflows, from staff to boardroom. The goal from day one is a team that can handle these systems without us after the engagement.

We build systems that last.

Real systems and real workflows — tested, documented, and dependable long after we've left. No demos, no workarounds, no tools that break next quarter.

Your team keeps everything.

Workflows, documentation, and the fluency to run them. We hand off properly, so everything stays after we're gone. Ongoing support is optional — never a requirement.

Who we work with

Built for scaling teams and executives

We partner with executives and teams across consumer products, technology, entertainment, e-commerce, SaaS, and professional services. Nimble teams are our preference — but the process holds at every scale.

Executives

Leading from the front. Practical AI workflows that give a single executive the leverage of a full operations team.

↳ ~3 hrs reclaimed daily

Early-stage startups

Pre-seed through Series B. Fractional leadership, financial infrastructure, and modern workflows before your first big hire.

↳ Phase one live in ~6 weeks

Scaling teams

Hitting an operational ceiling. Custom systems and automation that grow revenue without tripling headcount.

↳ More pipeline, same headcount

Enterprise

Past the agency stage. Marketing, data, and finance teams at large companies who need work delivered — not another deck.

↳ Measurably better ROI
Recent work

Selected case studies

Five representative engagements across finance, operations, and AI. Specific mandates, measurable outcomes — details changed where clients require it.

Strategic Finance / Prestige Beauty

Growing Prestige Beauty Brand

Board & Investor ReportingCredit FacilityERP Selection

A prestige beauty brand scaling across both digital channels and a national retailer needed a finance function to match its trajectory. We built the forecast around an achievable plan the board and lender could both trust, negotiated and locked in a credit facility, and led ERP selection and rollout so reporting kept pace with growth.

0
Additional raise needed through the plan, with facility secured
3-yr
Forward plan
Ongoing
Demand plan: resourcing locked
Growth / Consumer Wellness

National Wellness Brand

Investor Reporting3-Year PlanWeekly Cash Flow

A national wellness brand was managing newly raised growth capital and needed tighter cash management as it expanded into a larger retail footprint. We rebuilt cash visibility week by week, split the business into two P&Ls — steady state and a retail expansion — and kept all parties focused on each channel's profitability and contribution margin while financing inventory for the growth.

13-wk
Rolling cash forecast, owned and updated weekly
2 P&Ls
Channel contribution margin — digital and retailer, each judged on its own economics
Monthly
Investor & lender reporting — full transparency
Zero to One / Skincare Launch

Venture-Incubated Skincare Startup

Entity & BankingLaunch ModelInsurance & OpsRaise Strategy

A venture-incubated skincare brand brought us in before it had a bank account. We built the finance function from day zero — entity setup, banking, payroll, insurance, and 3PL selection, each competitively bid — pressure-tested the launch model line by line, and sized the seed to reach launch, with the next raise timed for when the story is strongest.

Day 0
Fractional CFO on board from incorporation
5+
Vendors competitively bid, insurance through fulfillment
1 date
Launch-critical path mapped backward from day one
AI / Recruiting Operations

High-Growth Travel Startup

Applicant ScreeningHiring SystemsProcess Design

A fast-scaling travel company needed 20 hires across 7 time zones in 9 months — and each listing drew thousands of applicants within weeks, most of them automated noise. We built the screening system that ran the first pass: scoring candidates on what actually predicted a strong hire, filtering out generated applications, and improving with every hire made. Every candidate who reached a first round was worth the interview.

20
Hires across 7 time zones in 9 months
1,000s
Applicants screened per listing
100%
First rounds worth the interview
AI / Finance Operations

Accounting Software Startup

Close WorkflowsReview AutomationAccounting Systems

A bookkeeping platform needed AI in the product and in the practice — helping accountants close the books faster. We designed AI-assisted close workflows that turned hours of file review into minutes.

Minutes
File review, down from hours
100%
Transactions checked automatically
Days faster
Month-end close
The short version

Most projects fail because they solve the wrong problem. We start by finding the right one.

Our approach

Empowering innovators with proven expertise

Brand-tailoredData-drivenFuture-forward

We're thought partners and collaborators, integrating seamlessly with your team to move faster, operate smarter, and unlock exponential results.

Tailored for Growth is a boutique finance and operations partner built for companies that need experienced operators.

You get a team who've built companies, sat in boardrooms, and propelled brands to new heights. We plug in fast, work lean, and stay focused on what actually moves the needle.

Track record

Proven expertise that drives results

COO · CFO · Controller · FP&A · Operations · Human Resources · Strategy
20+
Years of experience across finance, operations, and strategy
50+
Brands elevated through tailored financial and operational leadership
6+
Industries served — consumer products, tech, entertainment, e-commerce, SaaS, and professional services
A few people we've worked with
Hum Nutrition ·Sincerely Yours ·Next Health ·Orebella ·Moon Juice ·Sundays ·Dermstore ·Universal Music Group ·Target

Ready to build with confidence?

Let's talk about where you're headed and how we can help you get there.