The constraint on a CFO practice is not selling the work. It is the partner hours burned rebuilding context, chasing review, and re-deriving last month's numbers. Larch holds the cycle so your people hold the judgment.
Watch where the hours actually go in a CFO engagement. Not into judgment, into reassembly. The senior accountant reopens last month's spreadsheet to remember what the firm said about margin. The partner reads an email thread to find out whether the client ever answered the AR question. The controller rebuilds a forecast tab someone overwrote in March.
Larch keeps all of it on the engagement: the briefs, the forecast versions (v2 survives v3), the decisions with their IDs, the asks with their owners. When June opens, May's context is already loaded.
The review chain is the other half. A Pack moves Draft, then In review, then Final review, then the portal, and nothing reaches a client without a person signing it. The AI drafts observations; your team keeps, edits, or kills every line. That boundary is written down, in plain terms, on the security page.
The firms that grow are not the ones working more hours. They are the ones who stopped rebuilding context.
The honest version, from a firm's side. One engagement, one controller, about six working hours total spread across the week.
A typical first week · times approximate
A CFO engagement that takes a controller eighteen hours a cycle caps out a three-person team around a dozen clients, and the partner becomes the bottleneck for every review. Cut the reassembly and chase work, and the same team carries more engagements at the same standard, without the partner reading every number twice.
We will not put a multiplier on your practice from a marketing page. Bring your engagement count to the walkthrough and we will work the math on your numbers.
Structural facts about the product, not performance claims
A walkthrough with your numbers: we set up one client file and run a cycle while you watch. If the loop does not fit your practice, you will know in an hour.