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Board-Ready Reporting Reset

Your board pack is 40 pages. Six are read. The other thirty-four are doing nothing for your business except draining your CFO's evening. Board-Ready Reporting Reset is a four-week engagement and pays for itself the first meeting.

Start with clarity before action.

The board pack stopped being read a long time ago.

Most board packs evolved by accretion — every quarter someone added a slide and nobody removed one. The result is a 40-page document the board skims, the CFO dreads, and the meeting works around. The board makes decisions on the conversation in the room, not the pack on the table. The pack should drive the conversation. It does not.

A six-page pack the board fights over instead of skims.

6-page board pack: operating dashboard, 13-week cash, strategic decisions queued, variance commentary
Pre-meeting brief format for the chair and CEO
Board meeting agenda template
Variance commentary discipline (one-paragraph standard per variance)
Optional: attend the next 2 board meetings as observer/coach

Engagement Structure

Duration
4 weeks
Focused reset from review through rollout
Cadence
Two working sessions per week with CEO and CFO
Optional retainer for next 2 board meetings

This is for boards and CEOs who want the pack to drive the meeting — not the other way around.

Boards (private, PE-backed, family-owned) frustrated by the current pack
CEOs about to face a new board, sponsor, or major investor
$5M–$200M revenue businesses

A pack that runs the meeting.

Variance commentary is sharp. Strategic decisions are queued. The board fights over real choices instead of skimming forty pages of context. The CFO gets her evenings back.

A Deliberate Conversation

Most relationships begin with a 30-minute diagnostic call — not a proposal. If your board pack has stopped being read, we can talk.

Book a 30-minute conversation