Fractional CFOs

You can see the drag in every number.
You just don’t build the systems that remove it.

Every forecast, every board deck, every cash-flow model — you see what’s dragging it down. The data stitched together by hand from five systems. The close that takes two weeks. The manual operations quietly capping margin and throughput. You call it out in the numbers. Everyone agrees. Nothing gets built. We’re the people who actually build the fix — for your portfolio companies, and inside your own practice.

Reviewing a client’s operation — documents, notes, and tablet spread across the table

Whether it’s your practice or your portfolio — the manual work is the same.

Most fractional CFOs come to us one of two ways: they need to stop rebuilding the same reporting stack by hand across every client, or they’ve got a company whose operations are capping the very growth they were brought in to unlock.

For your practice

You’re rebuilding the same financial infrastructure by hand at every engagement.

Data pulled from disconnected systems into spreadsheet models. Board reporting assembled manually each month. KPI dashboards that break the moment the source data moves. Consolidations across clients done the slow way. That’s billable strategy time spent on plumbing.

  • Automated data pipelines into your models and dashboards
  • Board and investor reporting automation
  • Multi-entity consolidation and KPI systems
  • ERP / accounting-stack integration
  • Repeatable, client-ready reporting templates
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For your portfolio

You can see the operational ceiling in the numbers. We build the systems that lift it.

You were brought in to steer the finances — but the forecast keeps hitting an operational wall no model can fix. Manual order-to-cash. Disconnected systems inflating overhead. Throughput capped by processes that never scaled. You’ve quantified the drag. Now you have someone to build the fix — and make your plan actually achievable.

  • Operational gap analysis tied to unit economics
  • Order-to-cash and procure-to-pay automation
  • Zoho One / systems integration across departments
  • Custom app builds for the workflows ERP won’t cover
  • Infrastructure the operating team actually owns
Talk about a portfolio company →

You’ve quantified the drag.
Now there’s someone to build the fix.

Fractional CFOs see the operating picture in the numbers before anyone else — the margin leak, the throughput ceiling, the cost of a manual process. But a variance analysis isn’t a fix. That’s where we come in.

We turn the drag you’ve quantified into scoped, buildable systems — then build them. You stay the strategist. We do the technical work.

Steering a client through an acquisition? We map every automation opportunity in the target and quantify the upside before close — straight into your model.

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Margin Leakage
Manual order-to-cash and inconsistent follow-up leaving revenue uncollected 60+ days past terms.
Fixable with: automated billing + AR workflows
Labor Overhead
Hours a day moving data between systems that don’t integrate — cost with no strategic return.
Fixable with: integration + automated data routing
Reporting Lag
A close that takes two weeks and a board deck rebuilt by hand every month.
Fixable with: automated pipelines + live dashboards
Scale Ceiling
Throughput capped because the operation runs on one person and undocumented process.
Fixable with: process documentation + workflow automation
Missed Upside
A fundamentally strong business running at 60% because infrastructure never kept pace with growth.
Fixable with: automation audit + phased build plan

Three steps and your client has a plan.

No paperwork on your end. No complicated handoff. You make the introduction and we take it from there.

01

You identify the opportunity

You tell us what you’ve observed — the manual work, the disconnected systems, the operational gaps. One conversation is enough. We’ll ask the right questions.

02

We scope and quantify

We assess the business, map what’s fixable, and put real numbers on the upside. Your client gets a clear picture of what changes and what it’s worth.

03

We build it. You stay the strategist.

We do the technical work. You stay in your lane as the trusted advisor who saw what others missed and knew exactly who to call.

A systems architect who reads a P&L like an operator.
That’s the point.

Before Onizuka Studio, I was the person in law offices who looked at a paper-based operation and couldn’t leave it alone. Dean’s list. President of the paralegal association. And yes — I digitized every firm I worked in before anyone asked me to. The research instinct, the precision, the process orientation — it all transferred.

When you bring us into a portfolio company, you’re working with someone who understands what a number actually costs to produce, the importance of a clean data trail, and what breaks when a process doesn’t scale. I don’t recommend things I can’t build, and I don’t build things I can’t explain.

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