FRACTIONAL CFO FOR SECURITY SYSTEM CONTRACTORS.
We run the finance function for security system 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.
Security integrators own a balance sheet asset most of them have never valued, so we start by measuring it. Recurring monthly revenue is 38.5 percent of industry revenue now, up from 33 percent two years earlier, monitoring books transact at roughly 28 to 60 times monthly recurring revenue, and a $2M EBITDA project-only shop clears about $8M to $10M at sale while the same EBITDA at a 40 percent RMR mix clears $14M to $18M. We build per-contract P&Ls because monitoring wholesale cost, platform fees per account, and truck rolls against flat-rate obligations erode accounts without ever appearing in a revenue report. We track attrition as a standing metric too, since each point of monthly attrition below the category baseline can add two to three turns of multiple, and every canceled account removes contracted revenue that cost real install labor to create.
THE THREE THINGS THAT DRAIN THE CASH.
The Unpriced Asset
RMR is a balance-sheet asset with a multiple attached: monitoring books trade at 28x to 60x monthly recurring revenue, and a 40-percent RMR mix nearly doubles what a dollar of EBITDA sells for. An integrator who can't state the RMR mix and attrition rate is running a company whose value is being set by someone else's spreadsheet.
The Billing Illusion
"RMR contracts are billing, but nobody can tell you which ones are profitable." Monitoring costs, truck rolls, and platform fees erode accounts silently; per-contract P&L is the only lens that sees it.
The Divided House
Install revenue rides construction terms; monitoring rides subscription terms; the market values them on different multiples. One blended P&L hides which business funds which and misprices both, at exit and every month before it. (cfos-job-profitability-system) ---
WHAT WE CHANGE.
FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SURPRISES.
Priced by trailing 12 month revenue. No hourly billing. No payroll. No add-ons.
| Last 12 months revenue | Monthly fee |
|---|---|
| Up to $1M | $1,900 to $2,900 |
| $1M to $3.5M | $2,600 to $3,900 |
| $3.5M to $6.5M | $3,800 to $5,700 |
| $6.5M to $9.5M | $5,100 to $7,100 |
| $9.5M to $12.5M | $6,100 to $8,500 |
| $12.5M to $15.5M | $7,400 to $11,000 |
| $15.5M to $18.5M | $9,400 to $13,500 |
| $18.5M+ | Quoted individually |
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.
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 rather than a report.
Your bookkeeper keeps doing the books.
You stop touching the books.
Everything in Core, and we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Nobody in your office is answering coding questions or chasing a reconciliation at month end.
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 job costing.
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