A boutique consultancy accepting engagements by referral. Four credentialed frameworks — audit cycle, structured problem-solving, fractional executive model, systems discipline — stacked and delivered at senior audit grade.
Single-framework advisors structurally fail founder-led firms. FOG ADVISORY runs four credentialed professional frameworks simultaneously — each answering a different question — to produce a standard of advisory no single framework can deliver alone.
Risk-based judgment in every decision. Evidence hierarchy. Materiality thinking. The quality floor beneath every FOG deliverable — verified books, defensible documentation, risk-mapped systems.
Where this reaches — the risk floor that makes everything else defensibleMECE decomposition. Hypothesis-driven analysis. Answer-first communication. The structural discipline that separates FOG deliverables from consulting-adjacent output.
Where this reaches — the clarity that makes recommendations actionableOperator-level accountability, not recommendations. Phase-appropriate focus. Unit-economics discipline. Diagnostic → Foundation → Growth → Optimization — calibrated to the firm's actual stage.
Where this reaches — the economic coherence that keeps strategy honestPlan-Do-Check-Act. Self-correcting controls. Embedded feedback loops. Systems that compound in quality over time rather than degrading into stale artifacts.
Where this reaches — the compounding discipline that outlives the engagementThe public catalog: accounting and financial-advisory scope, calibrated by Bloom's Taxonomy level and priced accordingly. Every engagement is coded, tracked, and billable to a specific line — no ambiguity about what is being delivered or what it costs.
For referred clients who prefer fee certainty over hourly accounting. Package fees are derived from the underlying codes above — inside any package, the work continues to be coded A–D for internal tracking. Every engagement begins with a Diagnostic Sprint.
Initial assessment of current accounting state, system audit, prioritized recommendations. The on-ramp into every FOG referral engagement — no engagement proceeds to Foundation without this scoping.
Implementation of core financial infrastructure: books closed, controls installed, dashboards live, review cadence running. The reference-implementation scope.
Ongoing engagement after Foundation. Books maintained, senior advisory available, controls monitored, quarterly positions memo. Continuity for firms that want FOG standing behind them.
The reference implementation of the four-framework methodology. A California boutique architecture firm at intake — books eighteen months behind, no AR visibility across 200+ open projects, no control framework, no hiring process, no business-development pipeline. A textbook founder-bottleneck.
Ninety days of Diagnostic + Foundation: full internal controls framework, three-way reconciliation protocol, AR aging dashboard with escalation triggers, GP analysis across 128 historical projects, hiring architecture, business-development pipeline. Audit-grade documentation throughout.
Feeling accurate and being accurate are two different things. What FOG ADVISORY builds are the instruments that make the difference visible — and defensible under scrutiny.
I spent seven years in work where every figure had to be verified before it could be used — as a senior auditor at a mid-tier regional CPA firm, coordinating with parent-company auditors on Japanese-affiliated US subsidiary engagements. I read a founder's books the same way I read an audit population: from the side of evidence and procedure.
FOG ADVISORY exists because founder-led firms in the $500K–$10M range keep getting single-framework advice from single-framework advisors — a fractional CFO who sees numbers, a management consultant who sees strategy, an auditor who sees risk. Each produces real value. None produces a complete engagement. The founder is left to integrate.
My claim is that the minimum viable management advisory requires all four frameworks running simultaneously: one to verify truth, one to structure thought, one to diagnose economics, and one to build compounding rhythm. I built this practice to do exactly that — quietly, selectively, and at a standard that would hold up in an audit review.
Engagements are by referral only. The book is small by design. I would rather deliver at a standard I can defend than at a volume I cannot.
A thirty-minute introduction to determine engagement fit. We ask about the shape of the business, the current state of the books, and what a good outcome looks like. If it isn't a fit, we say so — and refer where we can.
