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Practical guides from the work we do.
Step-by-step explanations of the planning, security, AI, and software decisions our clients face, written to be useful whether or not you hire us.
Finance & planning
- Driver-based forecasting for small businessesBuild forecasts from the activity behind the numbers, such as volume, price, headcount, and acres, so plans are easier to explain, update, and test.
- How to build a 13-week cash flow forecastA step-by-step guide to building a weekly cash forecast from your own records, keeping it accurate, and using it to act before a shortfall arrives.
- How to plan a new hire with a scenario before you commitModel the real cost and cash timing of a new role, including loaded compensation, start dates, ramp-up, and payroll cycles, in a scenario separate from your plan.
- How to run a monthly performance review that ends in decisionsA practical format for monthly management reviews, with agreed numbers, budget and forecast comparisons, clear variance explanations, and owners for every decision.
Tax practice
- How to organize tax season intake so the busy weeks run smoothlySet up engagements, organizers, document requests, and assignments before the season, so preparers spend their time preparing and not chasing files.
- Independent review in a small tax practiceHow to keep preparation and review separate when the team is small, including what reviewers should check, how to record decisions, and how software can enforce it.
- Moving clients from email attachments to a secure portalA rollout plan for getting clients to use a document portal, covering timing, messaging, making the first upload easy, and handling the clients who still email.
- Writing a WISP for a small tax practice that matches realityHow a small tax or accounting practice can write a written information security plan that is accurate, usable, and backed by safeguards that actually exist.
Construction
- A contractor website that wins local workWhat owners, general contractors, and homeowners look for on a contractor's website, and how to structure services, service areas, projects, and quote requests.
- Cash flow planning for contractorsWhy profitable contractors run short of cash, and how to plan around payroll, materials, draw schedules, retainage, and change orders with a weekly forecast.
- Managing lien waivers and pay applications without missing a drawAn office workflow for pay applications and conditional and unconditional lien waivers, so contractors get paid on time without giving away lien rights.
Agriculture
- Planning a farm network that reaches the shop, the barn, and the field officeHow to plan reliable connectivity across spread-out farm buildings, keep cameras and equipment separate from office computers, and secure remote access.
- Planning farm cash flow through the seasonHow farms and ranches can plan cash around input purchases, operating loan draws, sale timing, and price uncertainty, with a budget, a forecast, and scenarios.
- Preparing for an operating loan reviewWhat lenders typically ask farms and seasonal businesses for at an operating loan review, and how to present a budget and cash projection that builds confidence.
Associations
- Association budgeting around dues, events, and renewal seasonsHow associations can build a board-ready budget, plan cash around renewal and event seasons, and report consistently against what the board adopted.
- Cleaning up member data before it costs you renewalsA practical process for associations to find duplicates, standardize organizations and member types, choose a source of truth, and keep member data clean.
- Member portal: build, buy, or integrate?How associations can decide between an off-the-shelf association management system, integrations around it, and a custom member portal.
AI & automation
- Choosing your first AI automationHow to pick a first AI automation that pays off, by scoring processes on volume, inputs, rules, risk, and measurability, then scoping a small first release.
- Putting human approval into AI workflowsWhere to place human review in AI-assisted work, how to make approvals fast instead of rubber stamps, and how to record decisions so accountability is clear.
- Writing an AI use policy for a small businessA plain-language framework for an AI use policy covering approved tools, client data, review requirements, disclosure, and accountability, sized for a small team.
Security & resilience
- A backup and recovery plan that actually restoresHow a small business can decide what to back up, set recovery targets, follow the 3-2-1 rule with ransomware in mind, and prove restores work before they are needed.
- Rolling out multi-factor authentication in a small officeA step-by-step plan for enabling MFA on email, financial accounts, remote access, and business systems without locking anyone out or losing a day of work.
- Stopping payment fraud and business email compromiseHow small businesses can stop the most expensive email scam, fake requests to change bank details or rush a payment, with simple process controls and MFA.
Websites & software
- How to scope a SaaS MVP without overbuildingHow to define the smallest version of a software product worth paying for, including the core workflow, the essential foundations, what to leave out, and how to measure it.
- The website redesign checklistEverything to decide and prepare before a business website redesign, from goals and content to redirects and analytics, so the new site launches on time and keeps its rankings.
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