The finance team you were going to hire next year.
Vantidge is strategic finance for startups without a CFO. We build your model on your real books in a week and keep it current every month. When a raise or a sale shows up, we run the diligence.
We read the org charts of 45 New York startups. Four had a CFO. The rest run finance out of a bookkeeper and the founder's evenings. Signed an LOI?
What's on the tab.
One monthly price, set by what you need. You get the number in writing after the first call.
| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | What you get | Included |
| 2 | Operating model | Your drivers, tied to your actual books. First version within a week. | TRUE |
| 3 | Your systems | Ledger, bank, billing and payroll come in every night | TRUE |
| 4 | Dashboards | You and your board log into the same numbers | TRUE Note:Same numbers. Fewer board emails. |
| 5 | Month-end | Your bookkeeper closes the books. We roll them into the model and draft the board deck | TRUE |
| 6 | Raise math | How much to raise and what it costs you in ownership | TRUE |
| 7 | Diligence war room | Data room, request tracker, written answers and us on the calls | TRUE Note:Switches on when a term sheet does. |
| 8 | Excel | The whole model with live formulas, download any time | TRUE Note:For the board member who only trusts .xlsx. |
| 9 | Monthly price | Depends on the scope | =SCOPE() Note:A real number, in writing, after the call. |
Go ahead, click things.
A sample company, built the way we'd build yours.
Your systems, pulled in every night.
We pull your ledger, bank, billing and CRM in every night. If two of them disagree, we flag it.
Hit Refresh All.
- QuickBooks OnlineledgerNot loaded
- Mercurybanks and cardsNot loaded
- Stripecharges and payoutsNot loaded
- Bill.combills and paymentsNot loaded
- HubSpotpipelineNot loaded
- Product datausageNot loaded
The request list, tracked.
Every request gets an owner and a date. We chase it until the answer is posted.
Your lawyers keep the documents. We keep the numbers straight.
| # | Request | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1.01 | Monthly P&L, trailing 36 months | Open |
| 1.04 | Revenue by customer, tied to the ledger | Open |
| 2.12 | Cap table and option ledger | Open |
| 3.07 | Top 20 customer contracts | Open |
| 4.02 | Headcount by function and start date | Open |
| 6.15 | Sales tax exposure by state | Open |
What the round costs you.
Change the blue cells and watch the founders' line move.
Why not just hire someone?
You could. Here's the math.
| A | B | C | D | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finance hire | Fractional CFO | Other SaaS tools | Vantidge | |
| 2 | Builds your model | TRUE | TRUE | FALSE Note:The software is very excited to help you set up the software. | TRUE |
| 3 | Connects your systems | FALSE Note:One person. They'll get to it. | FALSE | TRUE | TRUE |
| 4 | In your numbers every day | TRUE | FALSE | TRUE | TRUE |
| 5 | Runs the diligence war room | FALSE | It depends Note:Ask who's answering request #214 at 11pm. | FALSE | TRUE |
| 6 | Starts this month | #N/A Note:Still interviewing. | TRUE | TRUE | TRUE |
| 7 | Sits in your office | TRUE | FALSE | FALSE | Sometimes Note:We'll come in if you want us there. We will want snacks. |
And when you do hire a finance person, we work with them.
“Before Sophie we didn't have a finance person. After Sophie we didn't have a finance person. Somewhere in the middle we sold to a public company without a banker. She did it all.”
Co-founder, Playground
The Playground sale
No finance team, no banker, and a buyer with three consulting firms. The model was built from scratch and the war room ran until close.
Plus the nightly deal-team email, gossip column included.
How it starts.
A call
Thirty minutes on what's coming up and where your numbers live. Bring nothing.
A scope
What we'll build and what it costs, in writing. Nothing gets connected until you sign off.
Connect
Your team links each system from one page. The first version of your model lands within a week.
Run it
Numbers refresh every night. When a deal comes, the diligence runs off the same model.
Is this you?
Tick what's true
- You're hiring for finance, or know you should be.
- You don't have a model, or you have one nobody trusts.
- A raise or a sale is on the horizon, even a distant one.
Probably not you
- You already have a finance team that owns its data.
- You only need your taxes done.
Questions
How much is it?
A monthly price that depends on what you need. We'll send a real number in writing after the first call.
How fast do we get a model?
A first version within a week of getting access to your systems. It gets sharper every month after that.
What do you need from us to start?
Logins to your ledger, bank and billing. Your team connects them from one page.
We have a deal next month. Is that too late?
Probably not. Tell us the date on the call. The tracker goes up first and the model catches up.
Do we still need a lawyer? What about a banker?
You need a lawyer, and they write the merger agreement. A banker is your call. Playground sold without one.
What happens when we hire a CFO?
We work with them. We keep the data clean and the model running. They spend their time on decisions instead of spreadsheets.
Where does our data go?
Into a workspace only your company can see, hosted in the US. Security details are here.
Thirty minutes, no spreadsheets required.
Tell us what's coming up. We'll tell you what we'd build first.