Allometry / Forward-deployed
How we deploy

We install the role. In person.

Asset-heavy finance ops doesn't live in a clean schema you can connect in a click — it lives in two people's heads, a 40-tab spreadsheet, and the way your shop actually runs. So we don't ship you software and wish you luck. We sit with you, map the real workflow, and stand the control tower up on your own data.

▸ The role, installed — not handed over. We earn the automation by month three; we earn your trust in the first week, on your real receivables.

— Why forward-deployed

The messy surface is the wedge.

The best place to install an operating layer isn't the cleanest workflow — it's the place the work is already happening, by hand, where it breaks as you scale. You can't connect to that from a marketing site. You have to go sit in it.

Ship-and-pray software

A login, a blank dashboard, and a backlog.

Generic tools hand you a seat and a setup guide. The rules that actually run your business — the deposit gate, the retention you chase, the entity that pays slow — were never in the box. The tool sits unused; the role stays in someone's head.

Forward-deployed

We map your work, then build it.

We start from your real exports and your real exceptions, design the rules with you, and leave behind a control tower that's running — plus the structured record that makes the next deployment faster. You get the outcome, not the homework.

— The motion

Discover → build → land one workflow → expand.

A structured, in-person motion borrowed from the best enterprise-AI deployments — compressed for the asset-heavy operator. Land narrow, prove value on real data, then climb.

▸ 01

Diagnose on your real data

A paid diagnostic, in person. We map the AR/finance workflow, inventory the stack, and design the exception rules for your deposits, retention, renewals, and tax — then run a "what this would have caught" report on your live receivables. The output is a short PRD of exactly what we'll install.

2–3 weeks · the working session · $7,500 diagnostic
▸ 02

Build it to how you run

We configure the control tower against your actual SOPs, entities, and connectors — not a generic operating model. Every escalation rule, every floor, every edge case is yours. The deterministic logic guarantees the high-stakes actions follow your guidelines, every time.

Your rules · your stack · no rip-and-replace
▸ 03

Land one workflow, live

Live in 30 days on a single, clearly-defined workflow — the one that's leaking most. Collections queue, deposit gate, retention tracker, the weekly memo. Early value, on the board, before anyone debates a roadmap.

Day 30 · first control tower live
▸ 04

Embed the fractional team

Optional, and powerful: a fractional finance-ops layer that is the role, running on the system — weekly review, exception triage, follow-up support. The human stays the guardian of the exception; the layer carries everything else, so the role scales without a full-time seat.

Days 60–90 · operational · the role, on the layer
▸ 05

Expand up the pyramid

One workflow becomes the platform: collect → price → target → finance. And underneath it all, every decision is signed into the vault — so the operating record you built becomes the attested asset that unlocks capital. The diagnostic was the wedge. The vault is the asset.

Expand by workflow · then by module · then to capital
— How we work

Customer-obsessed, by construction.

▸ In the room

We come to you

The founder and the deployment team sit on-site, in the work, until it runs. Your context doesn't survive a hand-off doc — so we don't rely on one.

▸ Real data, week one

Proof, not slides

We show value on your own receivables in the first week — the exceptions we'd have caught, in dollars — before you commit to anything beyond the diagnostic.

▸ Leave behind the system

Not a dependency

The FDE motion accelerates the product; it doesn't become the product. We leave behind a control tower running in production and reusable rules that make the next operator faster.

Start with one working session.

We'll map your AR, deposits, retention, renewals, and month-close — then show, on your real data, where the control tower removes the manual chase and lets the role scale. The diagnostic earns the rest.