Don’t hire a controller. Subscribe to the capability.
A senior controller, supercharged by CostCtrl and AI, who has already done it a hundred times.
You don’t hire a person. You subscribe to a capability: the senior controller, the costing, BI and AI software, and the experience of hundreds of implementations. We embed for a set period, then hand it to your team. Predictable monthly cost. No hiring risk. Productive from week one.
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A Fractional Profitability Controller is a senior costing and profitability expert you subscribe to instead of hire.
You get the person, the method (ABC and TDABC), the software (CostCtrl) and AI, working inside your finance function for a defined period. We build a live profitability model on your own data, drive a profit improvement plan, and train your team as we go.
When the work is done, you keep the model running in CostCtrl. It suits companies that need senior profitability control now, without the cost, the wait and the risk of a permanent hire.
Hiring is the slowest, most expensive way to fix profitability.
When margins are unclear, the reflex is to hire. That path burns months and thousands of euros before it produces a single insight, and it carries the risk of choosing the wrong person.
Searching, interviewing and onboarding, all before the first result.
Costing, reporting, BI and AI licences, plus the training to use them.
Six months in, you can find the hire was not right, and you start over.
A typical controller rarely pairs deep costing with talking to IT, the CEO, the COO and the CCO.
You budget for a salary. You pay for all of this.
The salary is the tip. Recruitment, employer taxes and the fourteenth month, the ramp-up before anyone is productive, the licences and the wrong-hire risk together roughly double it. We do not compete on being cheap. The subscription is comparable to one senior salary, with the software, the experience and the method already inside, productive from week one, and the risk on us. Illustrative, indexed to base salary = 100.
Everything you would otherwise assemble alone, in one subscription.
| Dimension | Hiring a senior controller | Fractional Profitability Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Direct cost | Salary, employer charges, benefits and a workstation, well above the nominal salary. | One predictable monthly fee, all included. |
| Time to value | Three to six months ramping up at partial output. | ✓Productive from week one. |
| Software and tools | Costing, BI and AI licences bought and learned separately. | ✓CostCtrl and the analytics stack included. |
| Experience | Limited to one person’s career. | ✓Hundreds of costing and profit improvement projects. |
| Stakeholder reach | Often strong technically, weaker across IT, CEO, COO and CCO. | ✓Translates between data, finance, operations and leadership. |
| Risk | A wrong hire costs months and thousands of euros, then a restart. | ✓A defined start and end. No sunk cost. |
| End result | One person, hopefully the right one. | ✓A live model, your team trained, and CostCtrl running. |
Not a replacement. We do not replace your controller. We equip your finance function with a capability that takes months and thousands of euros to assemble, then we hand over the wheel.
Starting points, not fixed boxes.
Scope, cadence and commercial model flex to your situation. Most companies start small and grow the engagement as the results land.
Embed Sprint
- Profitability Health Check and a first TDABC model
- Clean the data, stand up the model, first whale curve
- Part of the week, on site or remote
- Low commitment, fast result
Fractional Controller
- Embedded in your finance function, set days per week
- Live model, margin reporting, profit improvement plan
- One all-inclusive monthly fee
- Your team trained in parallel
Profit Partner
- Monthly base plus a success component on the profit we implement
- Full transformation of profitability control
- Governance with senior leadership
Diagnose, build, improve, then hand over.
Diagnose
A Health Check and data audit on your real exports. Where is margin actually being lost?
Build
A TDABC model in CostCtrl. The whale curve makes the hidden losses visible for the first time.
Improve
A prioritised profit improvement plan, executed with your stakeholders in IT, operations, commercial and leadership.
Hand over
Your team runs the model in CostCtrl on its own. We step out and leave you equipped, not dependent.
WHAT IT MAKES VISIBLE
Illustrative. A handful of customers carry the profit and a long tail quietly gives it back, while the average in your P&L hides it. Exposing that tail in week one, then fixing it through pricing, mix and terms, is what the engagement is built to do.
We do not replace your controller. We install a capability that would take months to build, then we hand over the wheel.
Your team ends the engagement trained, with a documented model running in CostCtrl. The capability stays in the building after we leave.
Companies bring us in around an event.
Build the function
No dedicated costing capability, or a controller too stretched in reporting to take on TDABC.
Find the leak fast
Profit is slipping and the average is hiding where it actually goes.
Get visibility quickly
A new CFO or board wants a defensible view of product, customer and channel profitability.
Clean and prove margin
Due diligence, an investor, or post acquisition integration that needs profitability to hold up.
Stand up costing
A system change is the moment to build costing in properly, not bolt it on later.
It did not stick
You could not attract or keep the senior profile, or the last hire was not the one.
Questions we hear
- We already have a controller.
- Then we do not replace them, we equip them. They keep a profitability model that would take months to build alone, plus the tools and method to maintain it. We install the capability, train the team, and hand over the wheel.
- Is this expensive?
- Compared with a salary, no. A salary leaves out the software, the training, the experience of hundreds of projects, and the risk of a wrong hire. Against the full loaded cost and risk of hiring, this is predictable and productive from day one.
- What if it does not work?
- The engagement has a defined start and end. We begin with an Embed Sprint of a few weeks with concrete deliverables. You decide whether to continue based on results, not promises.
- We do not know our real margins.
- That is the problem we solve. Within weeks we show the whale curve: which customers, products and channels destroy the margin your average hides. That is usually the moment the work pays for itself.
- Why not a big consultancy?
- A big firm delivers a report and leaves. We leave your team operating the model inside CostCtrl on its own. Implementation, not just analysis.
Get your margins under control, without hiring.
Start with an Embed Sprint: concrete deliverables in weeks, not a promise. If hiring is genuinely the better move, we will say so.
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