Fractional CFO for owner-led businesses

Your finance team, without the full-time hire.

Monthly reporting, cash forecasting and pricing analysis for growing businesses, at one flat monthly fee.

  • From $1,250 a month
  • Works alongside your bookkeeper and CPA
  • Three-month start, then month to month

The problem

Growth outpaces the numbers

As a business grows, a bookkeeper and a year-end CPA stop being enough. A full-time CFO still doesn’t pencil out.

Numbers arrive late

Financials show up weeks after month-end, with no one to explain why profit moved.

Cash catches you off guard

The bank balance is the forecast, so a tight payroll week is the first warning.

Prices are set by feel

No one can say which jobs, products or customers actually make money.

Each of these is fixable with the right numbers, on time, explained in plain English.

Where Broadhead fits

The missing piece between your bookkeeper and a CFO

Bookkeeper

Records what happened. Transactions, reconciliations and bills.

Looks back

CPA

Keeps you compliant. Taxes and year-end statements.

Once or twice a year

Broadhead

Explains it and looks ahead. Monthly reporting, forecasts, cash and pricing analysis.

Every month · flat fee

Full-time CFO

The same forward view. Plus a full salary, benefits and recruiting.

Full-time cost

Broadhead works alongside your bookkeeper and CPA. It doesn’t replace them.

How it works

Set up once, then the same rhythm every month

Steps 1 to 4 repeat every month. Each package includes every step before it.

  1. One time

    Set up

    We build your financial model, map your accounts and set a baseline forecast.

    Onboarding

  2. Step 1

    Report

    Clean monthly financials by week 2: profit, cash and the balance sheet on one page.

    Starts in Core

  3. Step 2

    Explain

    Budget vs. actual in plain English, then a review call with action items and owners.

    Starts in Core

  4. Step 3

    Look ahead

    Rolling forecast and 13-week cash flow, so problems show up early.

    Starts in Growth

  5. Step 4

    Decide

    Scenarios plus pricing and margin analysis for the big calls.

    Starts in Partner

Sample reports

What lands in your inbox

Examples from each package, built for Sample Co., a fictional $24M manufacturer. Hover or tap a chart to see the numbers behind it.

Core

Monthly financial report

Revenue and gross margin by month, January to September 2026

What it showedSeptember was the best sales month of the year and the worst margin. Overtime on two jobs and a steel price increase explained the gap.
View the numbers
MonthRevenueGross margin
Jan$1.82M30.2%
Feb$1.89M30.0%
Mar$2.05M31.0%
Apr$1.98M30.1%
May$2.11M30.8%
Jun$2.06M30.1%
Jul$1.95M30.0%
Aug$2.08M30.4%
Sep$2.14M28.4%

Growth

13-week cash flow

Ending cash by week, weeks ending Oct 30 to Jan 22

What it showedA year-end inventory build plus the annual insurance bill drops cash $140K under the minimum at Christmas. Spotted nine weeks out, so the credit line draw was planned instead of rushed.
View the numbers
Week endingEnding cashvs. $750K minimum
Oct 30$1,270K+$520K
Nov 6$1,225K+$475K
Nov 13$1,150K+$400K
Nov 20$1,105K+$355K
Nov 27$990K+$240K
Dec 4$905K+$155K
Dec 11$810K+$60K
Dec 18$715K−$35K
Dec 25$610K−$140K
Jan 1$680K−$70K
Jan 8$800K+$50K
Jan 15$890K+$140K
Jan 22$965K+$215K

Growth

Rolling forecast

Monthly revenue against budget, updated in October

What it showedThe year was heading for $24.05M against a $24.40M budget after the largest customer moved two orders into Q1. Flagged in October, with a quarter left to respond.
View the numbers
MonthActual or forecastBudgetDifference
Jan$1.82M$1.85M−$30K
Feb$1.89M$1.90M−$10K
Mar$2.05M$2.00M+$50K
Apr$1.98M$2.05M−$70K
May$2.11M$2.10M+$10K
Jun$2.06M$2.10M−$40K
Jul$1.95M$2.05M−$100K
Aug$2.08M$2.10M−$20K
Sep$2.14M$2.02M+$120K
Oct (forecast)$2.08M$2.15M−$70K
Nov (forecast)$2.01M$2.10M−$90K
Dec (forecast)$1.88M$1.98M−$100K
Full year$24.05M$24.40M−$350K

Partner

Pricing and margin analysis

Gross margin by product line, January to September 2026

What it showedRush orders were 4% of sales at a 6% margin, tying up the same machines and crews as 33% custom work. A 15% expedite fee adds about $150K a year to profit.
View the numbers
Product lineSalesGross marginGross profit
Repair & service$1.60M41%$0.66M
Custom assemblies$7.20M33%$2.38M
Standard parts$5.40M30%$1.62M
Fabricated frames$3.10M24%$0.74M
Rush orders$0.78M6%$0.05M
Total$18.08M30.1%$5.44M

Sample Co. is a fictional company and every figure here is illustrative. Your reports are built from your own books.

Packages and pricing

Three packages, one flat monthly fee

Pick the package by the question you need answered. Hours are a planning estimate, not a meter, and nothing outside your package is billed without your written approval.

Every client starts here

Onboarding

We build your financial model, map your accounts and set a baseline forecast.

from$2,500one time

Core

“What happened last month, and why?”

$1,250/ month

About 8 hours a month

Includes:

  • Monthly financial reports
  • Budget vs. actual review
  • Monthly review call

Best for owners who want clean monthly numbers and someone to explain them.

Partner

“What should we do about it?”

$4,000/ month

About 28 hours a month

Everything in Growth, plus:

  • Scenario modeling
  • Pricing and margin analysis
  • Lender or board package

Best for companies facing big calls on pricing, lenders, a board or expansion.

Add as needed

Quoting system build

A quoting tool that prices jobs from your real costs and target margins.

from$6,000fixed fee

Additional analysis

Work outside your package, quoted and approved before it starts.

$175/ hour

Move up a package at any time. After the first three months, you can also move down.

Not sure which fits? Book a discovery call

Compared with hiring

Less than a third of a finance salary

A year of Broadhead next to the median U.S. salary for the role you’d otherwise hire, before benefits, payroll taxes and recruiting.

Forecasting and cash flow

Growth package, 12 months

$30,000

Financial analyst, median salary

$102,740

A finance partner for big decisions

Partner package, 12 months

$48,000

Financial manager, median salary

$166,570

Salaries: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, median annual wage in May 2025 for financial and investment analysts and for financial managers. Broadhead figures are 12 months at the standard monthly price.

How we work together

Simple terms, and your numbers stay private

Simple terms

  • A flat monthly fee, invoiced on the 1st
  • Three months to start, then month to month on 30 days’ notice
  • Extra work only after you approve a written estimate
  • You keep your reports and your financial model

Your data, protected

  • A mutual NDA is signed before we see any numbers
  • Read-only access to your systems wherever possible
  • Access-controlled tools with multi-factor sign-in, and no AI tool that trains on your data
  • We never name you as a client without your permission

Getting started

Let’s look at your numbers together.

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    A short call on what you need from your numbers and where they fall short today.

  2. 02

    Recommendation

    The package that fits and any add-ons worth doing now, in writing, at a flat price.

  3. 03

    Onboarding

    We sign a mutual NDA, connect read-only access, build your model and set a baseline forecast.