One seat, and three layers behind it.
Here you get a staffed pod: a named CFO who owns the decisions, a named controller who owns the close, the analysts who do the work underneath both, and a named backup for every one of those seats who already knows your file. Working alongside them, more than two hundred specialists across twelve disciplines. And behind those, sister divisions in engineering, capital, risk, build and communications. Your CFO pulls in whichever of it your month needs. Nothing new to buy, nobody new to manage, and no second invoice.
Your CFO decides what the numbers mean and what to do about it — the board, the lender, the investors. Your controller owns the close and the accuracy of the record, and is your day-to-day lead. Underneath them sit the accounting and analysis seats the work actually requires. Every one of those seats has a named backup who already carries your file, and cover is drilled on live accounts every quarter rather than promised in a brochure.
Modeling, debt, transactions, systems, tax, risk, costing, technical accounting and more — brought onto the parts of the month that call for them. Your CFO specifies the work and stays accountable for it. Your CFO never hands you off, and the bench already knows your file before it arrives.
Engineering, capital, insurance, technology build and communications — all inside one company, all on the same standard. When your month needs something bigger than the finance seat, your CFO brings it in for you instead of sending you out to find a supplier.
The people in the first conversation are the people on the account, as a term of the agreement
A named backup on every seat, running your file for a cycle every quarter
The same figure in a quiet month and a brutal one, with the bench included
Twelve disciplines, and your CFO can put any of them on your business at no change to the fee.
Your CFO decides what the month needs and brings it in. No new contract, no new supplier, no change to the fee, and your CFO is still the person you call.
When the month asks for more than any one CFO can carry, your CFO does not send you out to find it.
This is where a solo fractional CFO runs out and ours does not. A single operator has to find you a supplier, introduce you, and step out of the room. Your CFO reaches into the firm, brings the capability into your engagement, and stays accountable for the result.
Your CFO writes the specification, because they are the one who knows what your board and your lender need to see. The engineers build it to that spec.
No software selection, no implementation partner, no project you have to manage yourself.
The group’s investment platform — capital raising, deployment and portfolio oversight. The people who talk to capital sit in the same company as the people preparing your numbers for it, so the pack and the conversation are built together.
One story, one set of numbers, and no gap between the people who wrote them and the people presenting them.
Insurance and risk transfer, reviewed against the real exposure of the business rather than last year’s schedule — working from the same picture of your operations your CFO already has.
A risk review that starts from your actual numbers instead of a questionnaire.
Technology build-outs for growing enterprises, from architecture through to delivery. Where the answer is genuinely a build rather than a better spreadsheet, the build happens inside the group.
A delivery team that is already briefed, because the brief came from your own finance lead.
Investor, brand and market-facing communication across the group. The narrative is built on the same numbers your CFO reports, so what you say publicly and what you file reconcile.
A message that matches the accounts, prepared by people who can read both.
Quality of earnings, diligence management and integration inside the practice, with invest-EDGE alongside on the capital side and the engineering arm on the data room.
A transaction run by the people who already know your numbers, with no new contract to sign.
One company. Your CFO can reach any part of it without you signing anything new.
Your finance seat sits in XLF·C. Below is the rest of the company standing behind it, and what each part can do for your business.
Everyone in the group works to one standard, so when a specialist joins your file nothing has to be re-explained on your time.
Fractional and group CFO, CEO, COO and CMO leadership placed inside the business. Your engagement lead and the finance bench sit here.
The investment platform. Capital raising, deployment and portfolio oversight for engagements that are raising, refinancing or holding assets.
Insurance and risk transfer, reviewed against what the business is genuinely exposed to rather than what it happened to buy last renewal.
The engineering arm. Builds the reporting, modeling and data tooling the group runs on, which is why your reporting can be rebuilt rather than worked around.
Technology build-outs for growing enterprises, from architecture through to delivery, for the times the answer is a system rather than a process.
Media and communications. Investor, brand and market-facing work, built on the same numbers the finance seat reports.
One division is not for sale. This is what the group does with its surplus.
What arrives on your desk, and who built it.
Everything below is your CFO’s output. Where a piece needed the bench or the wider firm, that is named — but your CFO owns all of it. Every month or every quarter, under one fee.
The month’s results with a written explanation of why every number moved, against last month and against plan.
Rebuilt with the week’s actuals in it, reaching far enough ahead to act rather than react.
Built once and used twice, so your board and your lender see the same numbers and neither questions the other.
Covenant position, headroom and the forward view, in the format the lender already trusts.
A close that lands on the same working day and a control environment written down rather than remembered.
A working spreadsheet you own and can change, not a locked file, and it is yours from the day it is built.
A raise, a refinancing, a risk review, a systems build, a sale process — run by people who already know your numbers, with nothing new to sign.
Six things we put in the agreement that this category does not put anywhere.
The CFO and controller who lead the first conversation shall lead the engagement throughout its term, supported by the specialist resources of the firm at no additional fee.
A named backup is assigned to every seat on the account, carries the file from the first month, and assumes the seat within four business hours of an unplanned absence, or two on the premium standard.
Response times, close dates and reporting dates are scheduled figures, not intentions, and a missed close date carries a credit against the month’s fee.
The firm accepts no referral fee, commission or revenue share from any software vendor, lender, broker or adviser it recommends to a client.
Access is granted by role and withdrawn on exit, confidentiality applies by default rather than on request, and everything built on your account — models, documentation, systems — is yours from the day it is built.
One fixed monthly fee. No hourly billing, no timesheets, no charge for correspondence.
Every one of these is in the agreement you sign, and you can read all six before you decide anything. They are on this page because they are the questions a buyer who has been let down once already knows to ask — and because asking any other firm for the same page is the fastest way to compare us to them.
The quickest way to see the size of this is to put a real problem in front of it.
Tell us what is actually going on in the business right now. In one conversation we will tell you who your CFO would be, which parts of the specialist bench your situation would pull in, and whether any of the sister divisions would be involved. All of it under one fee, and all of it named before you decide anything.