Your books aren't clean yet. That's exactly where we start. You don't need a finance department, you need your transactions recorded correctly, your books closed every month, and someone who'd actually notice if a number looked wrong before it becomes your problem at tax time or in a fundraising conversation.
Software-driven bookkeeping tools are fast and cheap at categorizing transactions. What they don't do is notice when something looks off, a duplicate charge, a miscategorized expense, a number that breaks last month's pattern, before it hits your financial statements.
Books that are a little behind feel harmless in the moment. Then a CPA asks for clean Q2 data in Q4, or an investor asks a question your P&L can't answer, and the cost of catching up shows up all at once.
Somewhere between too early for a finance team and too busy to do it properly, the books become the thing that gets done last, if at all. That's not a bookkeeping problem, it's a bandwidth problem wearing a bookkeeping costume.
Clean books aren't the finish line. They're the floor everything else, taxes, fundraising, FP&A eventually, stands on.
The goal isn't just clean books. It's books clean enough that nothing about your finances is a mystery when it matters.
"Who's actually doing my books, and would they notice if something was wrong?"
Every transaction recorded and categorized correctly, not dumped into a ledger and hoped for the best.
Bank and card accounts reconciled and the month formally closed, on a fixed schedule, every month.
Clear visibility into who owes you and who you owe, and how overdue either one is.
The three statements every conversation about your business, a tax filing, an investor question, eventually starts from.
One point of contact who owns your books and would notice if a number looked wrong, not a rotating queue.
Built for founders who need this done right, not founders who need a finance department. If you outgrow it, Founder FP&A Framework and Fractional Finance Team are the natural next steps.
If your books haven't been touched in months, or ever, we reconstruct and reconcile the backlog first, then move you onto the monthly cadence. Scoped and priced separately, confirmed before work begins.
This fits one entity with reasonably straightforward transaction volume and one or two accounts. Multiple entities, high volume, or payroll processed as part of this are scoped separately, confirmed in your free consultation.
Price reflects one primary business entity with straightforward transaction volume. Higher volume, multiple entities, or historical cleanup are scoped separately. Final fee confirmed in your proposal before any work begins, no retainers without clarity.
Book a Free Consultation"I worked closely with Manib for nearly four years at Arising Ventures, where he led FP&A across our portfolio of SaaS companies. Manib brought genuine exec-level thinking to every engagement, rigorous financial modeling, clear communication with holding company and operating company leadership, and the kind of calm, structured judgment you want when making high-stakes decisions. Any startup founder looking for a sharp, trustworthy finance partner would be in excellent hands with him."
No. This covers bookkeeping and financial statements only, not tax filing or tax preparation. We can work alongside your CPA or tax preparer, or point you to one, but that stays a separate relationship.
Software tools are fine at the mechanical work, categorizing transactions, running reconciliations. What they don't do is notice when something looks off before it hits your financial statements. You're paying for a person who would, not just a tool that records.
Whatever you're already using, QuickBooks, Xero, or similar. If nothing is set up yet, we can help you get started.
Yes. This is designed as a starting point. Founder FP&A Framework adds forward-looking forecasting once your books are handled. Fractional Finance Team bundles accounting and FP&A together under one relationship if you'd rather have both from the start.
Access to your accounting software, or your bank and card statements if you don't have one set up. If your books are behind, we'll scope a catch-up phase first.
Onboarding typically takes 2 to 3 weeks, then you're on a fixed monthly cadence.
The consultation is free. The scope is confirmed before any work begins. And every month after that, your books are just done.