Tallgrass Financial Partners · Old Town, Wichita
Most owners we meet have a good bookkeeper and a good CPA. What they do not have is someone looking thirteen weeks ahead. We are three partners in Old Town who show you your cash runway every week and get you ready for the bank, the buyer and the board.
The 13-week forecast
Runway is how long the cash lasts at the rate it is going out. Owners feel it; very few can say it as a number. The 13-week forecast turns it into one, then shows you what moves it. Scroll the chart, then try a scenario.
Cash runway Illustrative
18.4months
Base case: 18.4 months of runway. Tightest week is week 5, when cash dips under the minimum.
Illustrative figures for a composite $9M machine shop, in thousands of dollars. Not a client. Your forecast is built from your own bank data in the cash review.
What we do
A rolling 13-week forecast and your runway in months, updated every week.
You know which week gets tight before it does, and which decision fixes it.
From $1,950 to start, then within CFO Monthly illustrative
Bank and SBA packages with projections a credit officer can test.
Your lender gets every item on the checklist, in the order they read it.
From $4,500, fixed fee illustrative
Two to five years from a sale: books a buyer's diligence can rely on.
When a buyer calls, the data room already exists.
Assessment from $7,500, fixed fee illustrative
A month-end close by day six, reviewed reconciliations and sales tax oversight.
Numbers you can schedule a meeting around, every month.
From $2,900 a month illustrative
Who we work with
Second-generation machine shops in the aerospace supply chain, equipment dealers and grain businesses, clinic groups, breweries, contractors and distributors. Companies that outgrew a bookkeeper and a once-a-year CPA but do not need a full-time CFO yet.
How it runs
Two weeks. Your bank, receivables and payables exports in; a working 13-week model and your runway number out, reviewed in a two-hour session.
Theo rolls the forecast forward each week with actuals. You get one page: cash today, the tightest week ahead, runway in months.
One hour with a partner after the close. Margins by line, the forecast against last month, the one decision that needs making.
Quarterly. The pack your lender, your board or your future buyer will ask for, already built. See what each band includes.
The partners
No account managers and no junior hand-off. The partner who builds your model is the partner in your monthly meeting. More about the firm.
Founding Partner, Fractional CFO
Leads CFO retainers, exit readiness, board packs.
Partner, Forecasting and Lender Packages
Leads 13-week forecasts, lender and SBA packages, covenant reporting.
Controller Services Lead
Leads Month-end close, reconciliations, sales and use tax.
Prices, in writing
Nobody else in Wichita publishes a figure. We publish three monthly bands and three fixed-fee projects. Illustrative prices for a concept site; the pricing page shows what each one includes and what moves the number.
Controller · per month
$2,900
The close is late or unreliable and you need it fixed before anything else.
CFO Monthly · per month
$5,800
Revenue about $3M to $20M. You want the runway every week and a partner in one meeting a month.
CFO Embedded · per month
$9,800
Revenue about $15M to $50M, a board or investors, or a sale or acquisition ahead.
A composite story
A second-generation composites shop east of the river, $11M in sales, one customer at 41% of it. Payroll every other Friday, and every other Thursday the owner checked the bank balance twice.
The 13-week model showed the problem was not the customer. It was a 60-day gap between buying resin and getting paid, plus a machine payment that landed in the same week as payroll twice a quarter. Moving the payment date and asking for 30% deposits on new tooling took the tightest week from $40,000 short to $310,000 clear.
Runway went from 3.2 months to 9.6. Then the shop used the same model for a lender package on a second machining centre.
Illustrative composite. Not a client; no real company or figures.
Before you book
Not answered here? Call (316) 555-0179 and ask a partner.
A fractional CFO does the forward-looking finance work a full-time CFO would do, a few days a month: the cash forecast, the budget, the lender relationship, the board pack. Your CPA files your taxes and looks backwards at last year. We work alongside your CPA and send them a clean year-end file. We are not CPAs and we do not prepare returns.
Because a call does not tell you anything you did not know. The 13-week cash review is a fixed $1,950 (illustrative): we take your bank and receivables exports, build the model, and spend two hours with you on the runway number and the three things that move it. You keep the model whether or not you hire us. If you only want to talk first, call (316) 555-0179 and a partner will answer.
Ours run from $2,900 a month for controller work to $9,800 a month for a partner on site one day a week, with CFO Monthly at $5,800 in the middle. Every band and what it includes is on the pricing page. Prices are illustrative for this concept site.
We prepare the package: projections, debt service coverage, the lender's checklist, and the answers to the questions a credit officer will ask. Your lender makes the decision, and we never promise an approval. See loan packages.
Two to five years out is the right window. A buyer's diligence asks for monthly reporting, documented add-backs and a forecast they can test; building that takes about a year of clean months. Exit readiness starts with a fixed-fee assessment. We are not brokers and we do not value businesses.
Usually a controller first. A forecast built on a close that lands on the 25th is a forecast built on old numbers. Our fractional controller work gets the close to day six, then the CFO work sits on top of it.
Next step
The 13-week cash review is a fixed $1,950: your bank data in, a working model and your runway number out, reviewed with a partner in a two-hour session. Three details in the form, or one call.