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Compliance
Books, filings and financial controls that meet regulatory, investor and audit-readiness standards — documented well enough to survive diligence.
When: an audit or raise is coming
Boston · For startups & growth companies
Senior finance leadership.
Amplified by AI.
Accountable for results.
Digital Frontiers Consulting gives a growing company the finance function it needs — compliance, reporting, budgeting, dashboards and strategy — led by a named senior partner, with AI tooling a board or an auditor can trust.
Board pack — Q3 close
Prepared in 6 days
Monthly financial statementsReviewed & signed
Rolling 13-week cash forecastUpdated
Variance vs. plan−2.1% · explained
Model versionv14 · diffed
Data → number audit trailComplete
Cash position · trailing 12 monthsUSD 000s
◆Every figure above traces back to a source ledger entry. Assumptions documented, models version-controlled, a partner’s signature on the result.
Illustrative deliverable
30 years
in CFO, controller and board seats — across eight countries and three continents
$600M → $1B+
revenue growth led inside a single operating business by a partner of this firm
120 days
from liquidity crisis to bank financing secured and profitability restored
CIA · CISA
internal-audit and information-systems audit credentials held on the team
PhD in AI
on the founding team, governing every tool we put anywhere near your books
§ Figures are drawn from engagements our partners led before founding the firm. Company names withheld here by choice; full references are available under NDA at the point where they matter — before you sign anything.
The position we take
Not cheap bookkeeping with a chatbot. Not a big-firm deck factory. Senior human judgment, amplified by AI — and answerable for what it produces.
Services
What we take off your plate
The finance function a growing company needs — without building the department before you are ready for one. Seven service areas, each available inside a sprint or a retainer.
02
Reporting
Monthly and quarterly statements, board decks and investor updates that answer the questions before they are asked.
When: the board wants more
03
Budgeting & Forecasting
Annual budgets, rolling forecasts and scenario planning you can actually steer by — including a 13-week cash view when things are tight.
When: nobody owns the plan
04
Performance Analysis
KPI tracking, variance analysis, unit economics and benchmarking — so the number in the deck comes with the reason behind it.
When: growth stops making sense
05
AI-Powered Dashboards
Real-time dashboards that turn scattered data into decision-ready visuals. The deliverable itself — not a demo of one.
When: data sits in five tools
06
Strategic Advisory
Fractional-CFO counsel on runway, pricing, fundraising readiness and the operating decisions each of those depends on.
When: the call is yours to make
07
AI Enablement & Governance
The tooling we use ourselves, implemented inside your business — with the controls, documentation and audit trail a board, an investor or an auditor will accept.
When: AI is already in the building
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Not sure which of these you need?
Most engagements start with one and grow into three. Thirty minutes on the phone is usually enough to tell.
Who we serve
Two very different companies, one thing in common
A Series A founder and the owner of a $20M family business do not read the same way — but both have outgrown the person keeping their books, and neither is ready for a full finance department.
Primary
Venture-backed startups
Pre-seed through Series C, needing investor-ready reporting, budgeting discipline and a fundraise that does not stall in diligence.
TRIGGER · RAISE AHEAD
Primary
Owner-led companies
Roughly $1M–$50M in revenue, profitable or bootstrapped, past the bookkeeper and not yet at a controller — and no longer fully trusting the numbers.
TRIGGER · AUDIT OR TRANSITION
Secondary
PE-backed & family businesses
Portfolio companies needing interim finance leadership through a transition, and founder-owned businesses professionalising ahead of a generational or ownership change.
TRIGGER · LEADERSHIP GAP
Why us
Three things we do
that others don’t
Every serious firm in this market claims senior people and modern tooling. These are the three claims we can put evidence behind — and the reason a warm introduction to us tends to stick.
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AI you can audit
Our tooling is designed and overseen by a founding partner who holds a PhD in artificial intelligence — and it is governed like an audit, not like a product launch. Documented assumptions, version-controlled models, and a clear trail from raw data to any number you put in front of a board.
Nobody else in this market pairs the two
II
Named partners, deep bench
A named senior partner leads every engagement — not a rotating staff pool. When your situation calls for a tax specialist, a technical accountant or an industry veteran, thirty years of relationships supply exactly the right person, for exactly as long as you need them.
Lean by design · specialists deployed, not carried
III
We stay for the results
We have held the CFO seat, run the turnaround and sat on the audit committee — and lived with the plan long after the diagnosis was done. We are not paid for the report. We are accountable for the result.
Operators, not deck-makers
How we work
An engagement, start to finish
No discovery phase that bills for six weeks before anything useful appears. You should have something you can use in front of your board inside the first month.
Step one
Discovery call
Thirty minutes with a partner on where finance is helping the business and where it is quietly in the way. No deck, no pitch team.
→ A plain read on whether we help
Step two
Scope in writing
A fixed-scope sprint or an ongoing retainer, with the deliverables, the timeline and the price written down before we start.
→ Scope, price, dates — signed
Step three
Delivery
A named partner leads. Our tooling handles the mechanical layer — reconciliation, first drafts, anomaly detection. Humans make every judgment call and sign every number.
→ Board pack, model, dashboard
Step four
Quarterly review
We look at the relationship out loud every quarter: scale up, scale down, bring in a specialist, or agree that you no longer need us.
→ Adjust, extend, or hand over
Governance
Every number,
traceable.
More than half of finance leaders already use AI somewhere in their work. The question your auditor will ask is not whether you used it — it is whether it was governed. Here is exactly where the machine works and where a person signs.
01
Ingest
Ledger, bank, billing and payroll data pulled into one governed source, with every extract time-stamped.
Machine
02
Reconcile
Matching, classification and anomaly detection run first — exceptions surface instead of hiding.
Machine
03
Model
Forecasts and first-draft reporting generated from stated assumptions, in a version-controlled model.
Machine · drafted
04
Judge
A partner interrogates the exceptions, adjusts the assumptions, and decides what the number means.
Human
05
Sign
The figure goes to your board with a named person behind it and a trail back to the source entry.
Human · accountable
✓
Documented assumptionsEvery model states what it believes and why, in language a non-finance director can follow.
✓
Version-controlled modelsWho changed what, when, and what it moved — always answerable, months later.
✓
A clear data-to-number trailFrom the raw ledger entry to the figure in the board deck, without a manual gap in the middle.
✓
Human sign-off, alwaysAI drafts. A partner with fiduciary discipline decides — and puts their name on it.
Pricing
Published here, priced in writing
Most firms in this market make you take a call to find out what they cost. We would rather you arrive knowing — it respects your time and it pre-qualifies ours.
Project Sprint
$5–25K
fixed scope · 2–8 weeks
A fundraise-ready model, an audit-readiness review, a dashboard build. Defined start, defined end, defined price.
Core Retainer · most common
$3.5–7.5K
per month · 10–20 hrs
Monthly reporting, budgeting, board materials and dashboard upkeep. Your finance function, led.
Embedded Partner
$7.5–15K+
per month · 20–40+ hrs
For multi-entity, pre-fundraise or PE-portfolio complexity, with full advisory access between meetings.
Specialist Add-On
$150–400
per hour · as needed
Vetted tax, technical-accounting and industry expertise, deployed precisely — engagement by engagement.
For reference: a full-time senior finance hire runs $400,000+ a year — before you know whether you need one.
The firm
Small on purpose
Every competitor in this market signals scale — 800 clients, 3,000 customers, 250 professionals. We are going the other way, deliberately. A small partnership means the person who takes your first call is the person who does the work, and the person who is still there when the plan meets reality.
Behind the partners sits a bench of senior specialists built over three decades — tax, technical accounting, industry operators — deployed engagement by engagement. You get precisely the expertise your situation needs, and you never pay for a large firm’s overhead.
Partner profiles publish with the full site launch. Until then, what matters is what the partnership holds between it: three decades of operating leadership, audit and governance credentials, and a doctorate in artificial intelligence.
Held between the partners
CFO · Board Director · Head of Internal Audit
Credentials
CIA · CISA · PhD, Artificial Intelligence
Governance experience
Audit committee · international board seats
Reach
Eight countries · three continents
Practised, not theoretical. The governance vocabulary on this site comes from having sat on the other side of the audit — and from having been the one signing.
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Ivy League degrees and top-tier logos read well on a cover slide — but they don’t tell you who’s still standing when the plan meets reality.Why we started this firm
For lawyers, investors, accelerators & bookkeepers
Know a founder who doesn’t fully trust their numbers yet?
Send them our way. Your client gets a partner rather than a queue, you get told what happened, and the introduction reflects well on you. We have written down exactly who to send and what the first call looks like.
Next step
Thirty minutes. A partner, not a salesperson.
Tell us where finance is slowing the business down. We will tell you plainly whether we would fix it, how, and what it would cost — or that you do not need us yet.
No forms that feel like a lead trap · No sales team · No obligation