Company
Startup & small business consultants
Harrisburg, PA
40.2732° N · 76.8867° W
We help your company grow faster.
Strategy, finance, operations and people for startups, small businesses and companies starting over.
Senior leadership for companies that need it before they can hire it full time.
What we do
Five ways in. Pick the one that hurts most.
Each one starts with the question keeping you up at night. We answer it, then build the tools so you never have to ask it again.
Where are we going, and who is coming with us?
Focus the company and align your team behind one vision, with goals that are real, actionable and achievable.
Explore strategy Fractional CFOIs there cash for that?
Budgets, forecasts and cash-flow models that tell the truth before the bank does.
Explore Fractional CFO Fractional COOWhy does everything take so long?
Systems, infrastructure and process that let you scale without the chaos.
Explore Fractional COO Fractional CHROWho do we hire next, and how do we keep them?
HR foundations, hiring plans and a culture that develops and empowers people.
Explore Fractional CHRO TurnaroundsIs this business worth saving?
We find the model worth keeping and rebuild it for high margin and high return, without cutting people first.
See how we turn it aroundHow we measure success
High returns.Strong culture.No brutality.
We build high-margin, high-return business models without the private-equity habit of cutting people first.
The toolkit
We give you the tools. Six of them, to be exact.
Every engagement draws on the same six disciplines. We pick the ones your business needs right now and leave the rest on the shelf.
Strategic Planning
Focus your company and align your team behind a unified vision with real, achievable goals.
Dynamic Budgeting
A complete financial view of your company that forecasts scale and cash flow.
Infrastructure Development
Simple, secure physical infrastructure and modern cloud technology that streamline operations.
Target Marketing
Reach customers where they are with focused content, and track progress through conversion metrics.
Key Metrics
Identify and track the variables that drive strategic, sustainable growth and healthy financials.
People Planning
A culture that develops and empowers employees to grow and succeed in every phase of the business.
Principles
What we won’t compromise. Four promises, every engagement.
Cash is oxygen.
Young companies rarely fail for lack of ideas. They run out of runway. Every recommendation we make is priced against your cash.
Don’t reinvent the wheel.
Most answers already exist somewhere. We find them and fit them, and save the custom work for when your business truly needs it.
Culture compounds.
People who are developed and empowered outperform people who are managed. We build teams that grow with the business.
Partners, not spectators.
Great teams achieve more together. We join your fight and roll up our sleeves instead of handing you a binder.
Clients
You’ll be in good company. Founders, operators and owners.
This experience was transformative to our business. Our systems are more sophisticated, more powerful and easier to manage. Using the KPIs that were developed, we monitor our business on a granular level despite exponential growth.
Matt SmithPresident, Prevail Ventures
Let’s work together
Let’s grow together.
We think great teams work better together, achieve more together, and are more successful together. We’re ready to join your fight as partners.