Contact
Start with a conversation.
The questions below are the ones I'd ask in the first five minutes anyway. Answering them here means we can skip to the useful part.
Thirty minutes, and we're both deciding
No deck and no proposal. I'll ask about the business, how the numbers get made and what's creating the pressure, and you'll get my read on what I'm hearing. You're working out whether I'm useful. I'm working out the same thing.
Who I work with
Founder-led companies with inventory on the balance sheet, mostly between $10M and $50M in revenue. Below that I'll still take the conversation if the business is interesting. If you need bookkeeping, close support or tax help, that isn't me — and I can usually point you somewhere better.
What happens next
If it looks like a fit, the next step is a paid diagnostic with a defined scope and a fixed fee. If it doesn't, I'll tell you on the call.
Based in Chicago, working with companies anywhere in the US.
Prefer to just write? colin@bluebirdcfo.com