FRACTIONAL CFO FOR IRRIGATION CONTRACTORS.
We run the finance function for irrigation subcontractors doing $1M to $12M: job costing aligned to the way you estimate, a 13 week cash flow forecast, monthly WIP, and a CFO in the room every month. Pricing starts at $1,900 per month.
Irrigation installs a system and then decides, usually by accident, whether it owns the service book that follows. Service work runs 30 to 40 percent gross margins on recurring contracts, so every install that goes out without an agreement attached donates that annuity to whoever answers next spring's call, and the agreement has to sign at install rather than at startup. We plan the year around two windows, spring startup and fall winterization, and size crew and compressor capacity against them, since a missed blowout turns a $75 service call into a spring repair claim. Then we get scope boundaries in writing before the trencher moves, because sleeving, mainline routing, and controller wiring inside a landscape package always leak toward whoever documented least.
THE THREE THINGS THAT DRAIN THE CASH.
The Orphaned Install
Every system installed without a service agreement attached donates a 30-to-40-percent-gross-margin annuity to whoever answers next spring's call. The agreement signs at install, not at startup.
The Freeze Race
Startups and winterizations compress the year's service revenue into two windows capped by crews and compressors, and a missed blowout becomes a spring repair claim. Window capacity is the business plan.
The Package Seam
Install rides inside landscape and sitework packages where sleeving, routing, and controller scope blur. Boundaries in writing before the trencher moves; the seam always leaks toward whoever documented least. (cfos-job-profitability-system) ---
WHAT WE CHANGE.
FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SURPRISES.
Priced by trailing 12 month revenue. No hourly billing. No payroll. The one-time onboarding fee is right here in the table.
| Last 12 months revenue | Monthly fee | One-time onboarding |
|---|---|---|
| Up to $1M | $1,900 to $2,900 | $1,000 |
| $1M to $3.5M | $2,600 to $3,900 | $1,500 |
| $3.5M to $6.5M | $3,800 to $5,700 | $3,000 |
| $6.5M to $9.5M | $5,100 to $7,100 | $4,500 |
| $9.5M to $12.5M | $6,100 to $8,500 | $6,000 |
| $12.5M to $15.5M | $7,400 to $11,000 | $7,500 |
| $15.5M to $18.5M | $9,400 to $13,500 | $9,000 |
| $18.5M+ | Quoted individually | Quoted individually |
The onboarding fee covers migrating your books back to the start of your last taxable year and getting you fully operational in 60 days. It's billed once, with your first invoice. It's the same for all three tiers. Your first month is prorated, and your monthly engagement starts on the first of the first full month.
Range reflects the three tiers below. Which one you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. No payroll. No hidden line items. The onboarding fee is right here in the table.
You stop guessing.
You get the CFO work. Job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a meeting every month that ends in decisions and never in a report.
Your bookkeeper still does the books.
You stop touching the books.
Everything in Core, and we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Your office stops answering coding questions and stops chasing a reconciliation on the last day of the month.
We do the books. No payroll.
Every job shows its margin while it's still running.
Everything in Executive, plus the job costing and WIP platform set up, loaded with your cost codes, and managed for you every month. You never have to learn it.
We do the books, the job costing, and the software. No payroll.
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