Fractional executives
The operating document, not a coaching artifact.
As a fractional CFO, COO or integrator you are inside the business, not visiting it. The quarterly plan is the thing you run the company against — it needs to be live, owned and readable by a leadership team that did not attend your planning session.
The fit
Built for people who have to execute it.
Coaching tools tend to optimize for the session. You need the ninety days after: named owners, due weeks, a scorecard with real numbers, and a document you can put in front of a board or a lender without apologising for the formatting.
- Owners and due weeks on every commitment
- A scorecard that sits next to the financials
- A printed plan a board will accept
- Re-planning mid-quarter without losing the record
The numbers that call the quarter
| Gross margin % | goal 44% | 41.8% |
| New MRR | goal $12k | $13.4k |
| Quote turnaround | goal 3 days | 6 days |
| Estimator seats filled | goal 2 | 0 |
| Cash on hand | goal 60 days | 71 days |
What changes
Three things that get better in the first quarter.
Clarity
- One page that says what the quarter is
- No ambiguity about who owns what
- Definition of done, written up front
Accountability
- Weekly marks make effort visible
- Drift shows up in week four
- Nothing hides until the quarter ends
Handover
- The plan survives you leaving the room
- A leadership team can read it unassisted
- Every quarter archived as a document
In practice
Where it fits in the operating rhythm.
Most fractional seats already have a weekly and monthly cadence. This slots into it.
Quarterly planning session
You facilitate; the plan is built on the screen and committed before anyone leaves. The workbook prints as the record that day.
Weekly leadership meeting
The scorecard readings and the week’s marks are the first five minutes. If a number is red twice, it becomes an agenda item automatically.
Monthly review
Re-forecast the commitments that are drifting. Recommit, re-scope or park — explicitly, in the plan, with the reasoning attached.
Board or lender reporting
The printed plan and scorecard go into the pack. Same document, no re-formatting, no separate deck to build.
FAQ
Questions from this side of the desk.
Can I run several client companies in one place?
Each company gets its own plan under your brand today. The single screen showing all of them is the Coach Dashboard, which founding partners are speccing now.
Is there a permissions model for a leadership team?
Today the plan is shared by link and most teams work off one screen in the room. Granular per-person permissions are a roadmap item, and fractional executives are the ones pushing hardest for it — another good reason to be in the founding cohort.
Can it hold financial detail?
The scorecard holds the measures you choose to track weekly, which for most fractional CFOs is cash, margin, pipeline and a couple of operating numbers. It is not an accounting system and does not pretend to be.
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Owners, due weeks, weekly marks.
Numbers before opinions.
A document a board will accept.
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