What does $7,500 actually buy? Here is the answer, with nothing left out.
What you get
Three ranked findings. Each one names a dollar exposure, not a vague “you could be doing better.” Each one names an owner, meaning a specific person accountable for fixing it, not a department. And each one comes with a 90-day plan: what happens first, who does it, and how we know it worked.
That is the whole deliverable. Not a strategy deck. Not a SWOT chart. Three real findings and a plan to act on them.
Why three, and why ranked
Owners already know they have problems. What they don’t have is a ranked list. Everything feels urgent when you’re inside it. The diagnostic’s job is to look at your revenue, margin, labor, and cash and tell you which problem is actually costing you the most, right now, this month.
Sometimes the biggest finding is not the one the owner expected. That’s normal. If pricing turns out to matter more than staffing, or the reverse, the numbers say so, not my hunch walking in the door.
Why $7,500, and why up to $5,000 credits back
The fee is fixed, scoped before it starts, and does not change based on what I find. That matters. If the incentive were “find more work,” findings would balloon to justify a bigger next contract. Fixed fee removes that.
If you start implementation within 30 days, up to $5,000 of the diagnostic fee credits against that work. So the real net cost of finding out is $2,500, if you move. If you don’t move, you paid $7,500 for three findings and a plan you can hand to anyone, including someone who isn’t me.
What it is not
It is not an audit. I am not issuing an opinion under accounting standards, and nobody should treat it as one. It is not a guarantee. I cannot promise your business contains a leak bigger than the fee, and some businesses don’t. It is not a sales pitch wearing a diagnosis costume. If the findings are small, the honest answer is to walk away and spend the money somewhere else.
Who this is for
Businesses in the $2M to $20M range where an owner is the integration layer for every cross-functional decision, where the monthly numbers arrive after the decision that needed them, or where growth has outrun the management cadence. If none of that describes you, read how to know whether you need a fractional CFO or COO in the first place before you spend anything.
What happens after
You get the three findings and the 90-day plan either way. From there it’s your call: implement it yourself, hand it to someone on staff, or bring me back for advisory, embedded, or interim work at the published rates. No pressure either direction, the findings belong to you once they’re delivered.
If you want to see the actual worked example of how a finding gets built from raw numbers to a ranked exposure, the proof ledger walks through one start to finish.
Start the $7,500 diagnostic, or see the full pricing and what happens next.