For owners building something worth more · $1M to $250M in revenue
Fractional CFO services, and the system that does the rest. Then make it worth more.
An operating CFO makes the calls that create value: what each number means, the weekly operating rhythm, pricing, and capital. The system does the rest: reconciliations, coding, reporting, and forecasts, prepared every day and approved by a person. You own it, so you keep the vision and lose the busywork.
- Led by an operating CFO
- From $5,500 a month
- You own the system
Good morning. Four decisions today.
Prepared overnight from every connected system · 06:40
Decisions, ranked
By dollars at risk- 1Collect six accounts past 60 daysToday$96K outstanding · drafts ready · owner: receivables
- 2Reprice service at two locationsThis weekMargin 3.2 pts under target · labor hours per job up 11%
- 3Follow up on 14 open quotesThis weekQuote-to-close slipped from 46% to 38%
- 4Payroll Friday is fully fundedOn trackNo decision needed · 13-week forecast within 2%
- 01Decisions, not dashboards
The day’s calls, ranked by what they cost, each with a named owner.
- 02Drills to the transaction
Every figure opens to the invoice, job, or timesheet behind it.
- 03One set of definitions
Owners, managers, and the CFO read the same numbers.
- 04Prepared, then approved
The system drafts the work. A named person approves it. Then the books update.
- Illustrative data. Every build is designed around the company’s own systems and numbers.
The gap
You built it on instinct. It has outgrown that.
Somewhere past the first few million, the owner becomes the system. Every number runs through you, every decision waits for you, and the company is only as good as your week.
You are the finance department.
The numbers arrive late, built by hand, and you are the only one who can read them.
Growth adds people, not discipline.
Every new location, customer, or lender adds work and another hire to do it. No one owns turning the numbers into decisions.
The value is trapped in you.
Buyers and lenders pay for a company that runs without its owner in every decision. Right now, yours doesn’t.
How value gets made
A company is worth its earnings times what someone will pay for how it runs.
Most owners work on the first half. Buyers and lenders price the second: numbers they can trust, results that repeat, and a team that doesn’t need the owner in the room. Founderwright works on both.
Worth more
Earnings you can prove.
Margin, cash, and pricing decided every week on real numbers, and a company a buyer can diligence without surprises.
Runs better
Not every decision waits for you.
One set of definitions, a close that stays closed, and every issue turned into a task with an owner and a date.
Grows easier
Ready for the next location.
The next location, hire, or acquisition lands on a system already built for it, without doubling the back office.
What we install
Accelerated discipline.
The discipline larger companies take years and a finance department to build, installed in months and run every day by a system with an operating CFO behind it.
Reduce it to four measures.
In one conversation we reduce the company to capacity, utilization, discipline, and value, and map the decisions that move them. You leave with a one-page CUD.V diagnostic.
Build the system around them.
Connected to the tools you keep and live on your real numbers from the first day. The company owns it.
Run the cadence.
A morning brief of exceptions, a weekly operating review, a monthly close, and board and lender packs. Every issue becomes a task with a name and a date.
Automate the routine.
Reconciliations, coding, accruals, and reporting are prepared by the system and approved by a person, so the back office doesn’t grow with revenue.
The system prepares. People decide. Every entry has a named approver →
The model · CUD.V
Four measures. Three are science. One is judgment.
Every company we build for comes down to four questions: what it can produce, how much of that becomes paid work, how consistently the work gets done, and what the whole thing is worth.
Capacity
What can the company produce?
People, equipment, seats, hours, and cash: everything the business can put to work.
Utilization
How much of it becomes paid work?
The share of capacity that turns into billed, collected revenue.
Discipline
How consistently is the work done?
Done, billed, collected, and closed the same way every time. A measure of process, not personality.
Value
What is it all worth?
To customers, employees, and owners. The period is deliberate: the first three are measured. Value is judged.
Every report and every task we build ties back to one of the four. We measure the first three every week and review value with the owner every month.
Read the method →
Why Founderwright exists
The work that creates value is a fraction of a CFO’s week.
I have spent my career as an operating CFO inside growing companies. The work that created the value took a fraction of my week: setting the definitions, installing the cadence, making the pricing and capital calls. The rest was assembly, and software and AI can now do most of it.
So the part that matters no longer has to cost a full-time executive. Founderwright puts it in the hands of owners who are creating real value for their customers, their people, and themselves.
— Logan, founder · operating CFO
Who we work with
A small number of owner-led companies at a time.
The best fits share three things.
They create real value for a customer.
And they want to be paid fairly for it.
The owner knows what it should be worth.
And will run a weekly operating rhythm to get there.
They act on the numbers.
Not just receive them.
Not a fit: bookkeeping only, a one-time report, or a dashboard no one will act on.
Pricing
Build it once, or keep us on.
Build it once and the company owns it outright. Or keep us on: from $5,500 a month, the build and fractional CFO services are included, and more of the CFO work is automated each month as the system hardens with our support.
Build
Own it outright.
From$45,000one-time
Scoped in the first conversation. Paid in milestones.
- A decision map and written build plan
- Every core system on one set of definitions
- Decision brief and department boards
- 13-week cash and rolling forecast
Build + Operate Recommended
Fractional CFO included.
From$5,500per month
Annual agreement. The build and fractional CFO services are included.
- Everything in Build
- Fractional CFO services from an operating CFO
- Monthly operating review and reporting packs
- CFO work automated as the system hardens
Portfolio
For sponsors and firms.
Customper company, volume terms
Volume terms across a portfolio or client base.
- One set of definitions across every company
- Roll-up reporting for the sponsor or firm
- Add-on and new-client onboarding playbook
- A named build team and quarterly roadmap
No per-seat licenses. Hosting and AI usage are billed at cost with no markup, and usually run on the company’s own cloud accounts. Prices are in U.S. dollars and exclude applicable taxes. See full pricing or how it compares with a fractional CFO.
For investors
The operating discipline your returns now depend on.
The same system in every portfolio company, on one set of definitions, with the whole portfolio on one screen every week. Installed the day after the recap.
Questions
What owners ask first.
How is Founderwright different from a fractional CFO?
A fractional CFO brings judgment a few days a week, usually on reports your staff assembles. Founderwright includes fractional CFO services and builds the system that assembles the reports, surfaces the issues, and tracks every decision to an owner. Typical U.S. fractional CFOs cost $8,000 to $18,000 a month (Fractionus, March 2026). Build + Operate starts at $5,500 a month with the build included.
What is the CUD.V diagnostic?
A one-page map of the company on four measures: capacity, utilization, discipline, and value. It shows where each number lives today and whether it can be trusted, the largest gap in dollars where the data allows, and the three moves to start with. It comes out of the first conversation.
What size company is it for?
Owner-led and sponsor-backed companies from about $1 million to $250 million in revenue. Smaller companies start with the close, cash, and a handful of numbers. Larger ones add multi-entity consolidation, covenant testing, and acquisition work on the same system.
Do we still need an accounting team?
You need enough people to satisfy your compliance requirements: someone accountable for the books of record, payroll and tax filings, and your outside CPA for tax and any audit or review. Founderwright takes care of the rest: reconciliations, coding, close checklists, reporting, and forecasting, each prepared by the system and approved by a person.
What does it cost?
Build starts at $45,000, one time, and the company owns it outright. Build + Operate starts at $5,500 a month on an annual agreement, with the build and fractional CFO services included. Hosting and AI usage are billed at cost.
Start with your four measures.
One conversation about how the company runs. You leave with a one-page CUD.V diagnostic: where capacity, utilization, and discipline stand, the largest gap in dollars where the data allows, and the three moves to start with.
Get your CUD.V diagnostic logan@founderwright.com