
A fractional Chief Financial Officer gives your business access to senior-level financial leadership without the cost of hiring a full-time CFO. At Firma Consulting Group, our fractional CFO services help business owners better understand their numbers, improve cash flow, prepare for growth, and make smarter financial decisions.
Through the Queen’s Gambit Framework, we help companies position their financial pieces correctly before making major moves. Whether you are managing payroll, cleaning up your books, reviewing your POS system, preparing for lending, or exploring new capital strategies, our role is to help you create a clear financial structure that supports long-term growth.
Our fractional CFO services are designed for business owners, startups, service firms, nonprofits, e-commerce businesses, brick-and-mortar companies, and community organizations that need financial clarity but may not be ready to hire a full-time finance executive.
In chess, castling protects the king while activating the rook. In business, financial structure protects the owner while activating growth.
Firma Consulting Group’s fractional CFO services are designed to help business owners build their financial castle. We help organize the books, review cash flow, forecast future moves, evaluate payroll, analyze POS systems, and prepare the company for lending, funding, and strategic growth.
Through our Queen’s Gambit Framework, we help you understand your financial position before making your next major move. Whether you are preparing to scale, hire, raise capital, improve reporting, or leverage assets more effectively, our fractional CFO services give you the financial clarity needed to move with confidence.
AFirma Consulting Group also helps business owners think strategically about how credit, insurance, and financial structures can support growth. This is not about giving one-size-fits-all financial advice. It is about helping you understand the strategic tools available and how they may fit into your larger business plan.
This may include:
Business credit strategy
Personal versus business credit education
Credit utilization planning
Asset leverage strategy
Life insurance policy strategy discussions
Deferred compensation structure education
Executive benefit planning concepts
Key-person protection planning
Succession and continuity planning conversations
Referrals to licensed financial, insurance, tax, or legal professionals
This section should be worded carefully on the website. You can say Firma helps clients create strategies around these tools and coordinate with licensed professionals, but you should avoid sounding like you are directly selling securities, giving tax advice, or making specific insurance recommendations unless the proper licenses are involved.
While Firma Consulting Group does not act as a law firm or provide legal advice, we help business owners identify, organize, and prepare the documentation they may need to operate, protect, and grow their company.
This is especially important for companies preparing to raise capital, bring on partners, hire contractors, protect intellectual property, sell products online, or formalize internal business operations.
This may include helping clients prepare for conversations around:
State business filings
Business registration documents
Operating agreements
Equity structure support
Founder and partner documentation
Contractor agreements
Non-disclosure agreements
Terms of service
Privacy policy needs
Trademark readiness
Intellectual property organization
Vendor agreements
Client agreement structure
Corporate recordkeeping
For documents requiring legal review, we help coordinate with licensed attorneys or refer clients to the appropriate legal professionals.
In the Queen’s Gambit framework, this is part of protecting the king. Before the business moves aggressively into growth, funding, partnerships, or expansion, it needs the right protections in place.
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We help review, organize, and support the financial foundation of your business. Clean books are the starting point for every strong financial. We review the financial systems that impact daily operations, including payroll, payment processing, and point-of-sale systems. decision.
This may include:
Bookkeeping review
Expense categorization
Monthly financial summaries
Revenue and expense tracking
Profit and loss review
Balance sheet review
Vendor and subscription review
Cash flow visibility
Financial cleanup recommendations
Payroll review
Payroll system support
Labor cost tracking
Contractor versus employee cost review
POS system review
Sales reporting
Merchant fee review
Payment processing review
POS-to-bookkeeping workflow review
Revenue category tracking
In the Queen’s Gambit framework, this is your board setup. Before you can make a winning move, you need to know where every piece stands. This helps business owners identify inefficiencies, reduce waste, and create cleaner reporting between operations and finance.
Although Firma Consulting Group does not position itself as a full-time CTO replacement, our team has experience supporting the launch of full-scale applications, CRM systems, websites, funnels, automation platforms, e-commerce systems, and operational technology.
We help business owners understand what technology they need, what team members or vendors may be required, and how to coordinate the execution of technical projects.
This may include:
Technology needs assessment
CRM and automation review
Website and funnel planning
E-commerce system planning
POS and payment system coordination
Application launch strategy
Software vendor review
Technology roadmap support
Product requirements planning
Referral to developers, designers, or CTO-level professionals
Coordination with outside technology teams
Tech stack consolidation
This helps clients avoid wasting money on disconnected platforms, unnecessary vendors, or technology that does not support the actual business model.
In the Queen’s Gambit framework, this is about developing your pieces. The right technology should support sales, operations, finance, marketing, customer experience, and reporting.
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Firma Consulting Group provides Fractional CFO services for businesses that need financial clarity, operational structure, legal readiness, and technology coordination without hiring a full-time executive team.
Our services include bookkeeping review, forecasting, projections, payroll support, POS system review, audits, financial reporting, lending preparation, funding strategy, credit planning, business documentation support, legal readiness coordination, and technology project planning.
Using the Queen’s Gambit Framework, we help business owners understand their financial position, protect the company’s foundation, and prepare for growth. While we do not replace attorneys, accountants, or CTOs, we help clients identify what documents, systems, and professional support they need to move forward with confidence.
Monthly 12-48 Hour Fractional CRO Structure
Week 1 (3hrs-12hrs): Financial Review & Action Plan
We review your current books, reports, payroll, revenue, expenses, POS data, and cash flow position and provide clear next steps so you know what to fix, what to monitor, and what financial moves to prioritize..
Week 2 (3hrs-12hrs): Capital Strategy
We help you understand funding, lending, credit, and asset-based strategies that may support your business growth.
Week 3 (3hrs-12hrs): Systems & Reporting
We identify gaps in your bookkeeping, payroll, POS, reporting, or financial operations.
Week 4 (3hrs-12hrs): Forecasting & Planning
We help project upcoming revenue, expenses, cash needs, and growth opportunities.
Who This Is Best For This service is ideal for businesses that need marketing leadership but are not ready to hire a full-time CMO. It is a strong fit for:
Business owners who need a clearer growth strategy, Startups preparing to launch or scale, Professional service firms that need stronger positioning, Nonprofits looking to improve donor, member, or community engagement, E-commerce brands trying to improve customer acquisition, Brick-and, mortar businesses that need local marketing strategy, Community organizations building events, memberships, or programs, Founders who need help, connecting marketing activity to revenue outcomes.
In this intro session with will be following the founder life an journey of the founders of pipe piper learning from their mistakes as their they try to be the first company to successfully monetize the next version of the internet better know as web 3. using the Q-GaaS frame work we will be able learn how they were able to success market, sale & growth their company into being one of the largest companies out the of silicon valley.
This will be an online interactive presentation where at the end of it you will get the opportunities to network with other like minded entrepreneurs, executive and investor that have all utilized the q-gaas frame work to scales their own enterprise. This frame work is designed by CEO Jared LaVergne in the hope of creating success full rode map for founder to effectively grow their business in a holistic way through the game of chess.
Our firm prioritizes strategic partnership over simple customer acquisition. To uphold these values, we have established an exclusive networking group focused on community engagement and referral partnerships. We curate intimate events such as Topgolf, tennis, card and board games, podcasts, lunches, and dinners. To ensure a seamless experience, we personally invite and vet each attendee to help break the ice prior to these curated gatherings.
Members gain dedicated access to our application and the Queen's Gambit Academy, providing a platform to connect with peers, register for exclusive events, access premium discounts, and participate in community webinars. As a member, we collaborate with you to develop networking opportunities tailored to your professional growth.
