I. Aivazovsky · Constantinople Sunset
Approach
How we work: finance fluency and real data engineering in one partner, built on the tools you already own.
PROTECTION
Creating a foundation that streamlines the current work.
Reconcile · Close · Automate · Report
CREATION
Using that infrastructure to do what couldn't be done before.
Surface · Recover · Predict · Action
Most options make you choose a side.
The work lives in the gap between finance and engineering. Each of the usual options covers one half of it and leaves the other half to you.
Finance consultants
Speak finance fluently, then hand you a model someone else still has to wire into your systems.
Data and BI shops
Build the pipelines, but don’t know what a clean close or an investor-grade P&L needs to show.
Planning software
A platform you rent: rigid where your business is specific, and still needs someone to run it.
Large consultancies
Arrive with a deck and a team, bill accordingly, and leave when the engagement ends.
We sit in the middle: finance fluency and real data engineering in one partner, built on the tools you already own.
The work starts with people, not code.
Every engagement runs the same way: we learn how the work is done before we change how it’s done. The judgment stays with your team; the engineering just makes the picture clear.
Sit with the people
We start with the team that runs the work: who touches what, where the hours go, where the knowledge lives. Before any code gets written.
Map how it flows
That becomes a clear picture of how data and decisions move through the business today, and where the picture breaks down.
Build on what you own
A shared data model beneath the systems you already run, so every report and dashboard draws from one spine. No new platform to rent.
Automate, then stay close
The recurring close, reports, and handoffs start running themselves; we work through the change beside your team and stay on only where it helps.
We don’t build it, hand it off, and leave.
The method only works if we run it next to your team. Every engagement comes with close-quarters, hands-on change management, and we stay alongside the business wherever we’re needed.
Built on tools you own
No proprietary platform, no vendor lock-in. We build on the systems you already run, so what we leave behind is yours to keep.
Hands-on, not hands-off
We work next to your team through the change, not from a distance, and stay on afterward only where it helps.
Measured by your outcomes
Success is a faster close, cleaner numbers, and decisions made with confidence; not hours billed or dashboards shipped.
The right fit is specific.
We work best with companies at a financial or operational inflection point: a recent acquisition, a scaling bottleneck, or a reporting environment that’s become a liability. The problem is usually the same: the data exists, the systems exist, but nothing talks to anything else.
Three ways to work together.
Every engagement stays small, accountable, and direct. Most begin with a defined project and continue on retainer where it earns its keep.
Retainer
Ongoing monthly engagement for companies that need continuous financial operations and analytics support.
Project-based
Defined scope and output: close automation, dashboard delivery, data infrastructure builds.
Hourly
For focused work under 10 hours: scoping, analysis, or advisory.
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