Modern Finance,
Built for Founders
Where founders turn financial complexity and uncertainty into clarity.
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Want the story behind the scores? Get the Full Assessment for $97 →The Challenge
The Financial Clarity Gap
Most founders are navigating critical growth decisions without a clear picture of their financial health.
Cash Flow & Working Capital
Runway optimization feels like guesswork. Working capital is inefficient, cash conversion cycles are unpredictable, and forecasting remains uncertain.
Limited Financial Visibility
You're making critical decisions with delayed or incomplete data. Manual reporting creates blind spots — and by the time you see the problem, it's already compounding.
Disconnected Systems
Financial data scattered across spreadsheets and disconnected tools. Manual processes waste time, introduce errors, and make it impossible to get a clear picture.
The Solution
The Founder Finance Health Matrix
We evaluate your financial health across four dimensions that matter most — giving you a clear, structured view of where you stand and where to focus.
Runway, burn rate & near-term liquidity
Revenue-to-profit conversion & margin quality
Working capital management & cost structure
Revenue growth trajectory & operating leverage
The Process
How It Works
Share Your Financials
Fill out our secure intake form with your income statement and balance sheet data. Takes about 15 minutes.
We Analyze Your Data
Your financials are evaluated against established financial health standards across all four dimensions of the Health Matrix.
Receive Your Scorecard
Get your personalized Financial Health Scorecard delivered within one business day — with a shareable link you can reference anytime.
What Founders Are Saying
We're just getting started — testimonials from early scorecard recipients coming soon.
Pricing
Two Ways to Get Started
Free
Financial Health Scorecard
$0
See where you stand across four financial dimensions. Get top-level health indicators and status ratings for your business.
- Overall Financial Health Score
- Four-dimension Health Matrix
- Status rating per dimension
- Shareable scorecard link
Financial Health Assessment
$97
See what's behind your scores. Get the specific metrics driving each result, what they mean for a company at your stage, and a prioritized action plan.
- Everything in the free scorecard
- Full metrics breakdown per dimension
- Interpretation for your stage & model
- Prioritized action plan
- 30-minute walkthrough with an advisor
Need hands-on advisory support? Assessment clients can explore strategic advisory engagements with The Lighthouse Group.
Have a Model Already?
The Model Audit
Audited before it's questioned.
Already have a financial model running your business? Get a senior practitioner's read on it before the next consequential reader does — investor, board, acquirer, or the version of you about to make a real decision. Fixed scope. Five business days.
The Memo
A diagnostic written for the decision-maker — findings by Health Matrix dimension, severity-rated risks, and the five to seven questions a sophisticated reader will ask.
The Annotated Model
Your model back with structural findings, tab-by-tab callouts, and surgical comments on the issues that matter. We mark what needs attention. We don't rebuild.
The Walkthrough
A 20–30 minute Loom walking through the findings live in your model — re-watchable, shareable with your co-founder, finance lead, or board.
$2,500 · Five business days · Fixed scope · No discovery call required
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Go Beyond the Numbers
The assessment tells you where you stand. The Financial Operating System translates your goals into a calibrated forecast — a clear view of where you're headed, so every decision from here is grounded in your numbers. Delivered as a cohesive system over thirty days.
The Model
A 3-statement operating model calibrated to your business. Built on an institutional-grade template and tuned to your numbers — the forecasting tool you’ll use for every decision going forward.
The Plan
90-day action plan organized by Health Matrix dimension. Three to five prioritized actions tied to your weakest scoring areas, each with expected impact and how to measure progress.
The Advisory
Hands-on advisory tailored to your business. Working sessions where we walk through the model with you, pressure-test priorities, and dig into the questions that matter most for what’s next — not a generic playbook.
What makes the insights different.
Most financial guidance comes from one lens. Founder Finance is built on three:
- The analytical rigor, modeling discipline, and strategic perspective of investment banking
- The pedagogical foundation that comes from educating institutional finance teams
- The operating reality of running finance inside founder-stage companies across multiple industries
The result: insights that hold up to investor scrutiny, frameworks you can actually understand and use, and recommendations grounded in what real businesses look like — not theory.
The Founder Finance Briefing
Actionable insights and financial fluency for growth-stage founders.
A short monthly briefing for founders who want to think more clearly about their numbers without becoming the CFO.
- One concept worth getting right — a metric, framework, or financial pattern that comes up across founder-led companies, explained clearly with a worked example
- One signal worth tracking — something shifting in capital, M&A, or operating norms that affects how growth-stage companies should be thinking
- One thing to do this month — a concrete action tied to your stage, organized by Health Matrix dimension
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