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AI-Augmented · Fractional CFO · 4 Markets
The CFO your business needs.
Without the CFO salary.
CapMaven pairs senior fractional CFOs with proprietary AI, giving founder-led businesses ($500K–$20M) the financial intelligence they need to grow faster, raise smarter, and stop running on instinct.
Cash · 13-week Live
Position
$4.82M
vs. forecast
+18.4%
Runway
22 mo
Burn
$218K
GM
68.2%
Why CapMaven
Real-Time Financial Intelligence
Live dashboards that show exactly where your business stands, every morning, not three weeks after the month closes.
Why CapMaven
AI + Human CFO Judgment
Automated analysis. Human strategy. The best of both, engineered to protect your margins and accelerate the decisions that matter.
Why CapMaven
Global Market Coverage
USA, UK, EU, and UAE, compliance, tax, and reporting handled in a single engagement by one senior bench.
600+ FOUNDER-LED CLIENTS
$500M+ CAPITAL GUIDED
USA · UK · EUROPE · UAE
48-HOUR ONBOARDING
AI-AUGMENTED · HUMAN JUDGMENT
SOC 2 ALIGNED INFRASTRUCTURE
FRACTIONAL CFO · CAPITAL PROJECTS
92% CLIENT RETENTION YEAR ONE
600+ FOUNDER-LED CLIENTS
$500M+ CAPITAL GUIDED
USA · UK · EUROPE · UAE
48-HOUR ONBOARDING
AI-AUGMENTED · HUMAN JUDGMENT
SOC 2 ALIGNED INFRASTRUCTURE
FRACTIONAL CFO · CAPITAL PROJECTS
92% CLIENT RETENTION YEAR ONE
$0M+
Capital guided across engagements
0+
Founder-led businesses served
0 Markets
US · UK · EU · UAE
0h
Average onboarding time
Trusted By
Deutsche Bank·
Chipotle·
Emaar Properties·
BlaBlaCar·
Airtable·
Gusto
Everything a founder-led business needs,
Run by senior advisors. Compounded by AI.
Five capabilities engineered for the realities of $500K–$20M businesses, where a real CFO is overdue, but a 12-person finance team is still 18 months away.
Capability · 01
AI Close Co-pilot
Variance flags across thousands of GL lines in under 90 seconds. Auto-tied to last month's narrative, last quarter's board read, and the assumptions you set in your model, so anomalies surface with the context that makes them actionable.
−38%
Avg. close cycle
Capability · 02
13-Week Cash Engine
Direct-method forecast rebuilt every Monday from bank, AR, AP, and payroll feeds. Stress-tested against three scenarios you can defend to a lender.
4.7×
Avg. runway gained
Capability · 03
Investor-Grade FP&A
Driver-based, three-statement, scenario-aware. Built so a partner at Insight or General Atlantic can read it on the first pass.
$500M+
Capital advised
Capability · 04
Diligence-Ready Books
Working-capital normalization, QoE-ready add-backs, and a data room that doesn't leak adjustments mid-process.
11.2×
Median exit multiple
Capability · 05
Pricing & Margin Forensics
Cohort, customer, and SKU-level margin teardowns, the kind of work that surfaces the 6-point gross margin no one was looking for.
+11pt
Avg. GM uplift
What we hear, week after week,
You're running a real business. The finance function still feels like a side project.
30–40%
of founder time at $500K–$10M revenue is spent on financial firefighting, cash shortfalls, investor questions, burn-rate anxiety, instead of building. It's a solvable problem.
01
Your numbers arrive 18 days late.
The monthly close lands when the month is already half over. Decisions get made on instinct because the data didn't show up in time.
02
Cash forecasting is a spreadsheet someone built in 2022.
Nobody trusts it. Everyone uses it anyway. The cell with last quarter's bank fees is still hardcoded.
03
Investors ask for things you don't have.
A cohort cut by acquisition channel. A unit economics view that ties to GAAP. A bridge between two models that no longer agree.
04
Pricing hasn't moved in two years.
You suspect there's 6–11 points of gross margin sitting in a list price no one has stress-tested against willingness to pay.
05
A full-time CFO costs $300K+ all-in.
You're not ready for the headcount. You also can't keep running a $7M business on a part-time controller and good vibes.
06
Your bookkeeper is great. That's not the same thing.
Bookkeeping records the past with discipline. A CFO shapes the next 18 months with judgment. Two different jobs, two different people.
Two ways to engage,
Both fronted by a senior advisor.
We don't sell a junior team with a senior face on the homepage. Whichever track you choose, the person on your calls has lived through the decision you're about to make.
TRACK 01 · MONTHLY RETAINER
Fractional CFO Partnership
An ongoing senior partnership for founder-led businesses. Monthly close oversight, board-ready reporting, FP&A, KPI architecture, and a strategic operator in your corner, at roughly a fifth of the loaded cost of a full-time CFO.
- → Monthly close + variance review with a senior advisor
- → 13-week cash forecast refreshed every Monday
- → Quarterly board pack drafted, rehearsed, and defended
- → Slack channel + 4-hour response for live decisions
TRACK 02 · ONE-TIME PROJECT
Capital & Transaction Services
Scoped engagements with a defined endpoint, led by an advisor who has sat on your side of the table before. Fundraising, sell-side prep, QoE, valuation, modeling, turnaround, built to survive a sophisticated diligence room.
- → Lender, debt, and equity raises (seed extension to Series B)
- → Buy-side and sell-side quality of earnings
- → Independent 409A and capital structure work
- → Liquidity rescue & 13-week cash discipline
The AI + Human model,
Machines do the volume. Human Mind do the judgement.
When we say AI-augmented, we don't mean a chatbot writes your board pack. We mean the analytical heavy lifting, aggregation, drafting, anomaly detection, benchmarking, is handled by machines, so a senior advisor spends their time on the part that actually compounds: judgment. Every output is reviewed and signed off by a human before it leaves our desk.
What AI does
What your CFO does
Aggregates and normalizes financial data across every system you run
Interprets what the numbers actually mean for your business, this quarter
Drafts MIS reports and board packs within hours, not weeks
Reviews, stress-tests, and writes the narrative before anything reaches you
Flags anomalies in cash, runway, AP/AR, and payroll, continuously
Decides which anomalies matter, and what action the founder should take
Builds and maintains your 3-statement model in real time
Owns the assumptions, challenges the scenarios, signs the output
Screens comparable transactions, investors, and valuation benchmarks at scale
Handles the investor conversation, the board, and the deal negotiation
The AI layer makes our delivery leaner. The experience layer makes our advice sharper. You aren't paying for our overhead. You're paying for our judgment.
Inside the engine
A monthly close at the speed of thought.
Our internal terminal compresses what used to take a 4-person team a week into a single afternoon, every line still reviewed by a senior advisor before it touches your inbox.
−72%
Close time
99.7%
Match rate
100%
Human-reviewed
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Retainer preview
Start with the Diagnostic. Continue on a retainer.
Gateway · One-time
The CFO Diagnostic
90-minute deep dive · One-time · Findings within 48 hours
- → P&L, cash position & pricing model review
- → Top 3 financial risks identified
- → One-page Financial Health Summary
- → Prioritised action plan within 48 hours
$500K – $2M
Navigate
I need financial clarity before I can make confident decisions.
$1,500/ mo
- ✓ Monthly management accounts review
- ✓ 13-week rolling cash flow forecast
- ✓ 2× monthly 60-minute strategy call
- ✓ KPI dashboard setup (month 1 only)
- ✓ Async Q&A, 48h response
Most chosen
$2M – $5M
Strategic
My business is growing. My finance function needs to keep up.
$2,500/ mo
- ✓ Everything in Navigate
- ✓ Monthly close + reporting pack
- ✓ 13-week rolling cash forecast
- ✓ KPI dashboard (weekly refresh)
- ✓ Quarterly board-ready review
- ✓ Async support, 24h response
$5M – $15M
Capital
I'm 12–18 months from a raise, exit, or board conversation. I need my numbers board-ready.
$4,000/ mo
- ✓ Everything in Strategic
- ✓ Driver-based FP&A model
- ✓ Investor reporting & data room hygiene
- ✓ Monthly strategy session (90 min)
- ✓ Bank, vendor & lender coordination
- ✓ Slack channel · 4h response
$15M onwards
Enterprise
For businesses that need a CFO function, not just a CFO advisor.
From $7,500/ mo
- ✓ Everything in Capital
- ✓ Dedicated senior advisor + analyst pod
- ✓ Fundraise / M&A workstream lead
- ✓ Quality of earnings prep
- ✓ Board pack drafting & rehearsal
- ✓ Weekly leadership sync
4-month minimum on Navigate · 6-month minimum on Strategic and above · cancel anytime after minimum · prices exclude taxes
Outcomes
The numbers we move for the founders we work with.
38%
Average gross margin improvement in Year 1, across cohort, pricing, and supplier-terms work.
$1.2M
Average cash flow unlocked per engagement through working-capital and AP/AR re-engineering.
3×
Faster fundraise close versus in-house-only finance teams, measured kickoff to wire.
92%
Client retention after the first retainer year. Founders stay because the numbers compound.
Client voices
What founders say after the first 90 days.
"
CapMaven's diagnostic alone was worth 10× what we paid. They found a cash timing gap we'd been blindly managing for two years. We fixed it in 3 weeks.
M
Mitch L.
Founder · Subflow Inc. · USA
Cash flow gap resolved · Navigate retainer
"
We raised our Series A faster because CapMaven had our model and deck investor-ready before outreach even started. Two VCs mentioned our numbers in the first meeting.
S
Sara K.
Co-founder · Scalepath · UAE
Series A closed · Capital Raise project
"
The valuation report gave us the confidence to hold our position in negotiations. The AI comps benchmarking was something our previous advisors had never offered us.
J
James P.
CEO · Aqua Ceres Global · UK
Valuation defended · Valuation project
How it works,
From day one to financial clarity.
Step 01
CFO Diagnostic
A $400 deep-dive session. We audit your financial infrastructure, model your runway, and map your top risks. You leave with a prioritized 90-day action plan, whether you engage further or not.
Lead
Senior Advisor
Cadence
Two weeks
First output
Day 14
A month with us,
What the cadence actually looks like.
One representative month for a retainer client. Timing is agreed at kickoff and tuned to your board, your raise, and your close calendar, not the other way around.
- Day 1–501 / 08
Monthly close & MIS
Books closed, P&L and balance sheet finalized. AI runs the first pass on variances; your CFO writes the narrative.
- Day 702 / 08
MIS pack delivered
P&L, balance sheet, 13-week cash forecast, and 3–5 management commentary highlights, landed in your inbox by EOD.
- Day 1003 / 08
CFO call #1
60-minute working session: prior-month review, decisions pending, and what to do about the variances that actually matter.
- Day 1404 / 08
Board pack drafted
Executive summary, KPI dashboard, variance bridge, 90-day outlook. Reviewed with you, then finalized 5 days before the board meets.
- Day 2005 / 08
Mid-month check-in
Cash position re-validated against the rolling forecast. Async update on Slack, or a 30-minute call if anything needs steering.
- Day 22–2506 / 08
Model refresh
Driver-based model updated with actuals. Forecast revised. Fundraise scenario refreshed if a raise is live.
- Day 2807 / 08
CFO call #2
Forward-looking session: next-month priorities, upcoming decisions, investor or board prep if it's coming up.
- Ongoing08 / 08
Slack & email
24-hour response SLA on the channel. Vendor negotiations, hiring decisions, pricing calls, answered as they come up.
Global reach,
One team. Four markets.
Local expertise in every jurisdiction, GAAP, IFRS, VAT, corporate tax, and regulatory compliance handled end-to-end by a single senior bench.
🇺🇸
United States
HQ · Coast-to-coast coverage
- →GAAP & Delaware
- →SEC-ready reporting
- →R&D tax credits
- →State nexus & sales tax
🇬🇧
United Kingdom
London advisory desk
- →FRS 102 & IFRS
- →HMRC & Companies House
- →R&D relief filings
- →EIS / SEIS structuring
🇪🇺
European Union
EUR-denominated engagements
- →IFRS reporting
- →Multi-jurisdiction VAT
- →Cross-border structuring
- →Transfer pricing
🇦🇪
United Arab Emirates
DIFC-aligned practice
- →DIFC & ADGM
- →UAE Corporate Tax
- →Freezone compliance
- →VAT & WPS
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FAQ
Common questions.
Direct answers. If yours isn't here, ask us on a discovery call, we'll be just as direct.
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Stop guessing. Start knowing.
Book a free 20-minute discovery call, or go straight to a $400 CFO Diagnostic. The Diagnostic delivers a working read of your cash position, runway, and top 3 financial risks within two weeks. Whether you engage further or not, it's the clearest financial picture most founders have ever seen.