Everyone else is selling you software. We bring the team.
The data team you always wanted.
The barrier to building something collapsed — an AI tool, a live dashboard, a clever model, all an afternoon’s work. The barrier to maintaining it did not move. Your clients do not need another tool. They need structure and continuity behind the person they already trust: you.
What gets built alone works — until the builder is elsewhere.
A fractional CFO is one person. That is the model, not a failing of it. But every tool you adopt arrives as one more thing for that one person to own — and what you build alone works right up until you are with another client, on holiday, or gone. Then the clever model is a liability, and nobody left in the room can open it.
Your client’s real question is not “is this good?” It is “who else can run it — and what happens in March?”
The gap is structure and continuity. It is not competence.
A governed platform, not a folder of files.
Every number keeps the reasoning that made it.
One governed layer across your client’s systems — ERP, banking, payroll, e-commerce. Every line carries the assumption that produced it. Nothing is overwritten: revisions are versioned and attributed, so what a number said in July is still there in March, with a name on it.
Pre-built reporting, consolidation, forecasting and AI on top. Which — said honestly — is what everyone offers. The difference is not the software.
Every line carries its assumption.
Revenue — retail
600100 2027-01 1,240,000Volume +6% on the FY26 exit run-rate; price held to April, +3% thereafter.
Payroll — production
521000 2027-04 −312,400Headcount 42 → 45 from Q2 at £45k; pay review +4% lands in April.
Marketing
518300 2027-01 −64,000Held flat until the rebrand ships; revisited at half-year.
Other overheads
518850 2027-08 −16,072Other overheads +4%, excluding depreciation, memo and disposal accounts; spread evenly.
Demo Company — plan lines as written to the governed layer. Each keyed by scenario, entity, account and period; the basis is stored with the number, not beside it.
A named team member, with allocated capacity, on call.
A team and a platform behind the person — not a single hire.
Named support from a local UK team, with Onetribe’s platform organisation behind it — skilled finance and AI professionals who maintain the transformations, the workflows, the tools and the forecasts, so they outlive any one person, including us. At the centre, the forward-deployed controller: an experienced controller working on your client’s numbers, on our platform, with our team behind them.
You stay the advisor. We keep the machine running.
Functions and deliverables.
Monthly procedures
Controller review run and signed · reconciliations checked · exceptions logged and followed up
Planning and projections
Rolling forecast updated · plan-vs-actual variances explained · assumptions owned and versioned
Oversight
Board pack delivered · alerts triaged to the right owner · findings raised before the meeting
The AI and BI layer
Reports switched on and tuned · agents customised · your client's context kept current as the business changes
Delivered on the governed layer — no accounting close. Remote, on-site when needed.
Pitch us to your clients. Your name stays on the relationship.
We make you deliverable at a scale one person cannot reach. You advise; we run the platform and the procedures behind you — with a named support member, allocated capacity, and outputs your client’s auditor can live with.
This is the same managed service Onetribe runs for its own clients, packaged for a fractional practice.
Demo Company
January–August 2025 · consolidated · GBP thousands
Every P&L line is up sharply — but cash is £2.9m negative and working capital has swollen 34%. The profit is real; it hasn't turned into cash.
Fix the cash position before it bites
Cash at (£2,941), −27% YoY — growth is consuming cash faster than profit is generating it.
Release the working capital
Up +£1,835 (+34%) to £7,173 — receivables and stock are absorbing the earnings.
Protect the expanding margins
Gross margin 36% (+14 p.p.), EBITDA margin 19% (+6 p.p.) — the unit economics are strengthening.
Deterministic numbers from your governed model · AI-drafted · controller-reviewed before release.
Detailed analytics →Bring us one client. We will show you the rest.
Pricing and the structure of service are one conversation — capacity, the forecast module, and how the handover works.