Fractional CFO: Strategic Modeling & Executive Insight

A fractional CFO is a senior finance executive who serves multiple companies on a part-time or project basis rather than as a full-time hire. The role typically covers capital strategy, forecasting, board reporting, and complex financial modeling without the cost of a full-time C-suite salary. At TILT, the fractional CFO is Justin himself, not a junior staffer or a rotating bench.

Justin works with real estate developers, operators, and small private equity sponsors. Most clients are mid-size firms that need senior financial judgment on capital raises, refinancings, and portfolio decisions but cannot justify a full-time CFO salary. Engagements are direct with Justin, not a rotating bench of analysts.

A fractional CFO engagement delivers the financial models, forecasts, and reporting your investors and lenders expect, plus Justin's direct judgment on the decisions those numbers support. Typical work: capital-raise modeling, refinancing scenarios, cash forecasting, board-ready reporting. Every engagement is anchored by TILT's professional modeling stack, so output looks like the work of a much bigger firm.

TILT typically responds within 24 hours of form submittal. After a short scoping call, most engagements start within a week. Once the engagement is active, turnaround on most analyses is a few calls and a draft. Working with Justin is intentionally low-hassle: no long ramp-up, no big-firm overhead.

You work with Justin himself, not a tiered staff or a rotating analyst. Justin (Duke Fuqua MBA, 15-plus years architecting financial models) brings TILT's professional modeling backbone to every engagement. You skip the slide decks and the high overhead. The output is what investors and lenders already recognize from TILT's model buyers.

Yes. Every engagement is custom-scoped on the initial call. Standard structures are hourly, monthly retainer, or fixed-fee project. If your situation does not fit a standard structure, Justin works out a fit during the scoping call. TILT can also build model customizations if your portfolio or deal structure needs something the standard models do not cover.

Both. Some clients retain TILT on a monthly cadence to support ongoing portfolio activity. Others scope a fixed project like a financing package or a one-time scenario model and stop there. The structure is decided on the scoping call.

An engagement starts with a free consultation: either a full 1 hour or a shorter 5 to 15 minute check-in if you would rather not commit to a full hour. Submit the contact form or email Justin at [email protected], and he replies within 24 hours. After the scoping conversation, Justin proposes a structure (hourly, retainer, or project). Most engagements begin work within a week.