Fractional CFO Services

Have you hit your stride?

Fractional CFO work from someone who's actually run businesses, not just audited them from the outside.

Clean financials, real forecasts, and a clear read on what's actually profitable — delivered by someone who built a company from nothing, sold it, and then spent five years running the finance side of a bigger one.

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FractionalPay for what you need, when you need it

Operator, Not AuditorBuilt and sold a business before advising on one

Founder-FocusedBuilt for the founder who's still doing this alone

What's Included

CFO-level support, scoped to your business

Every engagement starts with the basics done right — accurate numbers, a clear cash picture, and reporting you can actually use to make decisions.

Monthly reporting that means something

Clean, consistent financials and the handful of numbers that actually tell you how the business is doing, on your desk on time every month, not whenever someone gets to it.

Cash flow you can see coming

Rolling forecasts that show a shortfall weeks before it's a crisis, instead of finding out from your bank balance.

A budget that's actually a decision

Built with you, checked against reality every month, adjusted when the business tells you it should be.

Pricing based on what's true

A clear look at what's actually profitable, so a pricing decision is based on your margins instead of a guess.

Numbers that hold up to outside scrutiny

Reporting packages ready for a lender, an investor, or a board, built the way they expect to see them.

The Story

The turning point wasn't a strategy

I spent years inside a production company I built from scratch, doing the work myself before I ever had the numbers to know if it was working. The turning point wasn't a strategy — it was hiring a fractional CFO and finally seeing my own business clearly for the first time. I dug into the financials myself, learned to read them the way an operator needs to, not the way an accountant does, and started seeing exactly which levers actually moved the business.

I took that with me to the next company, where I rebuilt the accounting workflow first — before touching anything else — and built the reporting and forecasting tools that gave us a real, current picture. Once that picture was clear, the operational decisions that had felt impossible got obvious.

That's what I do now for other founders: get you the same clarity, faster than it took me to find it myself.

— Austin Bickford, Founder

How It Works

A simple path to getting started

Conversation

A no-pressure call. We talk about where the business actually is, not where the paperwork says it is.

Assessment

I look at your books and your reporting as they exist today and tell you plainly what's solid and what's not.

Scope

We build an engagement around what your business actually needs, not a standard package. Engagements typically start at $5,000/month, three-month minimum.

Support

Ongoing reporting, forecasting, and the kind of advisory conversations that only happen once the numbers are trustworthy.

Who This Is For

Sound familiar?

Founder-led businesses that have grown past the point where a spreadsheet and a gut feeling are enough — where cash flow is a mystery until it isn't, reporting shows up whenever someone has time, and pricing decisions get made on instinct because nobody's had time to check the math.

If that's where you are, this is exactly the gap I fill.

Let's begin with your numbers.

Financial clarity isn't the finish line — it's usually where the real conversation about the business starts.

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Or reach out directly at austin@stridecfo.com