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Practical advisory support for operationally complex businesses.

We work best where operations and finance are tightly coupled — where costing, inventory, projects, or multiple entities make reporting genuinely difficult.

  • Manufacturing

    Job costing, inventory valuation, and production data that reconcile to the financials — so margin by product and by run is something you can act on.

    Common challenges

    • Standard costs drift from actual costs and nobody recalculates them
    • Work-in-process and inventory valuation are estimated rather than derived
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  • Distribution & Wholesale

    Inventory turns, customer and SKU profitability, and the working-capital discipline that keeps growth from consuming every available dollar.

    Common challenges

    • Inventory grows faster than sales and ties up the credit line
    • True profitability by customer and SKU is unknown after freight and terms
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  • Field & Professional Services

    Utilization, project margin, and revenue recognition for businesses where labor is the product — from field-service operations to professional firms.

    Common challenges

    • Project or work-order margin is only known after the job closes
    • Utilization and realization are tracked separately from the financials
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  • Private Equity Portfolio Companies

    Sponsor-grade reporting, 100-day execution, and the financial infrastructure a portfolio company needs from close through exit readiness.

    Common challenges

    • Reporting inherited at close does not meet sponsor requirements
    • The finance function was built for a founder-led business, not a sponsor-backed one
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  • Construction

    Work-in-process schedules, percentage-of-completion accounting, and job costing that surface fade before it reaches the income statement.

    Common challenges

    • Job costs and billings drift out of sync, distorting reported margin
    • Over- and under-billing is discovered at year end instead of monthly

  • Multi-Location Businesses

    Consistent reporting, shared services, and location-level accountability across sites that have historically run their own way.

    Common challenges

    • Each location closes differently, making consolidated reporting unreliable
    • Location-level profitability is obscured by how overhead gets allocated

  • Growing Family-Owned Companies

    Professionalizing the finance function as the business scales — without discarding the judgment and relationships that built it.

    Common challenges

    • Financial knowledge is concentrated in one or two long-tenured people
    • Personal and business finances are entangled in ways that complicate financing
What they have in common

Complexity between operations and the ledger.

Different industries, same underlying problem: the systems that run the business and the systems that report on it were never designed to work together.

Operational systems

  • CRM

    Customers and pipeline

  • Sales

    Orders and pricing

  • Purchasing

    Vendors and POs

  • Manufacturing

    Production and costing

  • Inventory

    Stock and valuation

  • Payroll

    Labor and burden

Advisory layer

AdōDesign Advisory

Strategy · Implementation · Optimization

Financial core

  • ERP
  • Accounting
  • Banking

Management visibility

  • Business intelligence

    Dashboards and scorecards

  • Executive reporting

    Monthly management package

  • Board and lender reporting

    Covenants and diligence

Get started

Industry matters less than complexity.

If your business has inventory, projects, multiple entities, or an ERP that is not delivering, the work looks much the same.

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