Your P&L shows a profit. Your bank account says otherwise. I find where the cash goes and fix it.
Free, directly with me. No obligation.
There's no line in your books called “where the cash went.” So it keeps happening.
Challenge
A $3M machine shop. Full order book, profit on paper, and payroll covered at the last minute every month.
What we did
$110K of cash freed in 3 months. The credit line came down and stayed down.
Details anonymized. The results are real.
Challenge
A $4M plant losing money for over a year. Everyone saw the losses; nobody could point to the line where the money left.
What we did
The plant stopped losing money in month 5. Profit came back gradually from there.
Details anonymized. The results are real.
Challenge
He had just bought a $3M manufacturing business, sold to him as profitable. 4 months in: no pay for himself, late supplier payments, layoffs on the table.
What we did
7% more cash within 4 months. Payment delays ended. Not a single job cut.
Details anonymized. The results are real.
Book a 30-minute call. Nothing to prepare.
You tell me what's going on. I ask the questions I ask every manufacturing owner, and tell you what I see: where cash most likely leaks and what to check first. Most businesses have 15 problems on paper. 2–3 matter.
You leave with a first clear read on where cash is leaking and what to tackle first. If it makes sense to go further together, I'll say so. If not, I'll say that too.
If we decide to work together after the call, here is what that usually looks like.
A paid audit of your cash and profit. Fixed price, agreed up front. I go into your numbers and come back with where cash and profit leak, and the two or three levers that will move them.
Then you choose how to run them. Take the plan and execute it with your own team. Or keep me alongside as your fractional CFO: the decisions a CFO makes, a few days a month, flat fee.
15+ years running manufacturing finance. I launched new plants to profitability and brought loss-making sites back into the black.
Now I do that work for manufacturing owners as their fractional CFO.
You talk, I ask. A rough sense of your monthly numbers is all you need. You get my honest read on where cash is leaking and whether I can help. Everything you share stays between us.
The call is free. If we decide to work together after, the fee is fixed and agreed before anything starts: monthly, weekly, or per project. Sometimes a few hours is all it takes.
If you're running $2M to $10M, you're exactly who this is for. You don't need a full-time CFO. You need the decisions a CFO makes, a few days a month. The execution usually stays with your team and your bookkeeper; my job is that the right calls get made.
Good. Keep them. Your accountant tells you what already happened and keeps you compliant. I work on what happens next: cash, margins, and the decisions ahead. We work together, not instead of each other.
Yes. Calls and reporting fit around your schedule.
Write me at rafael.s@safeo-advisory.com. I reply within one business day.
“None of it was obvious to us. We were stressed and spinning our wheels. It came down to a few simple things, and we got the result.”
— Arthur D., owner of a $3M manufacturer
Prefer to start by email?
rafael.s@safeo-advisory.com