Do You Need a Fractional CFO?
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What's your current annual revenue?
Pre-revenue
Under £500k
£500k – £2m
£2m – £10m
£10m+
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How many people work in the business (including you)?
Just me
2 – 5
6 – 15
16 – 50
50+
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How much of your week goes into finance admin?
More than a day a week
Several hours most weeks
An hour or two most weeks
Rarely — someone else handles it
Almost never — fully delegated
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How often are you surprised by your own numbers?
Frequently
Fairly often
Occasionally
Rarely
Never — no surprises
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Do you have someone to sanity-check big financial decisions with (pricing, hiring, fundraising)?
No one
Occasionally ask an accountant
Ask advisors informally
Have a go-to finance advisor
Have a dedicated finance partner
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How do you currently handle month-end close?
No formal close process
Done late, inconsistently
Done monthly but manually
Done monthly, fairly smoothly
Done monthly, fast and automated
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Are you confident your business is fully compliant (tax, payroll, filings)?
Not sure at all
Somewhat worried
Reasonably confident
Confident
Fully confident, professionally managed
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Have you had to delay or scramble for board or investor reporting?
Regularly
Sometimes
Occasionally
Rarely
Never — always ready
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Is your team growing faster than your financial processes can keep up?
Yes, significantly
Yes, somewhat
About even
Processes are ahead of growth
Processes scale well ahead of the business
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If you raised funding tomorrow, would your finance function be ready to scale with it?
Not at all
Not really
Maybe, with work
Mostly ready
Fully ready
Do You Need a Fractional CFO?
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You Need Help Now
The signs are clear — your finance function is already behind where the business needs it to be.
Risk is accumulating quietly in the background
Founder time is being spent in the wrong place
This is the highest-priority fix on your list right now
You're Close to the Tipping Point
Things are just about holding together, but the cracks are starting to show.
A few more months of growth will expose the gaps further
Getting ahead of this now is far cheaper than fixing it later
This is a good moment to bring in senior support
You Could Benefit From Support
You're in reasonable shape, but there's a clear gap between where you are and where strategic finance could take you.
The fundamentals are working
Support here would free up meaningful founder time
Worth exploring before growth outpaces your current setup
You're in Good Shape — For Now
Your finance function is holding its own. The question is whether it keeps up as you scale.
You're ahead of most companies at your stage
Worth a periodic check-in as the business grows
Consider what support you'd need at 2x your current size