Still North is a fractional CFO firm serving growing companies across New Hampshire, Greater Boston, and New England. We give you a specialist-led finance team, from bookkeeping through CFO, without the cost of a full-time executive hire.
Most fractional CFO firms assign one senior person to everything. We do not. Forecasting goes to FP&A. The close goes to a controller. Strategy goes to a CFO.
A 30-minute intro call with Managing Director Chris Allen to talk through where your numbers stand and where you want the business to go.
Engage us for a single service or the whole ladder. As your needs grow, the same team scales with you.
Executive finance leadership for major decisions: capital structure, capital raises, pricing and margin strategy, acquisitions, board and investor communication, and the calls that shape where the business goes next.
Rolling cash-flow forecasts, long-range budgets, scenario models, and KPI frameworks built around your goals - so you can make decisions before the quarter forces your hand, not after.
Accurate, audit-ready financials and a monthly close you can rely on. Your controller owns the close, account reconciliations, system-generated reporting, and the internal controls that keep the numbers clean.
Clean, current books that keep everything downstream honest. Our bookkeepers are Advanced QuickBooks Online Certified ProAdvisors, and the team also works fluently in NetSuite and Sage.
Competitors assign a single "CFO" to handle everything - forecasting, accounting, board reporting, and the monthly close. One person rarely does all of that well. We assign each task to the person trained for it, so you get sharper work at a lower blended cost.
We don't drop off a report and leave your team to figure out how to run it. We step in on day one and drive the change ourselves - you feel the difference in operations, not in a slide deck.
Our team brings experience from Big 4 accounting firms, Goldman Sachs, and corporate finance. That caliber of finance leadership is generally not available to companies at this scale - the fractional model is what makes it affordable.
You’re two months behind on the books and a hiring decision is due this week. You know what’s in the bank, but you can’t say what your cash position looks like at the end of the quarter. Your forecast lives in a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts. And the acquisition on the horizon needs finance leadership you don’t have yet.
This is where most growing businesses stall. The company outgrows its bookkeeper, but it’s not big enough to justify a full-time CFO’s salary, bonus, and equity. So the owner ends up doing the finance work at night, and strategy waits.
Still North exists to take that off your plate and give you numbers that support decisions.
We work as an operating partner, embedded and hands-on alongside your existing team. We manage people, join your leadership meetings and offsites, and help develop the finance staff you already have into a stronger, more efficient group.
Our team is remote and spread across the US, which is part of how we keep costs down. We typically come on-site at the start of an engagement to meet your people and learn how the business actually runs, then visit as needed for audit fieldwork, board meetings, and team events. Day to day, we own the monthly close, run the rolling forecast, and bring decision-grade numbers to your leadership table – the same responsibilities a full-time CFO would carry.
A 30-minute intro conversation to understand where the business stands and what you are trying to solve.
We come on-site to meet your team and learn how the business actually runs, then map out a plan built around your specific situation.
We step in as your finance team, driving the work ourselves and reporting back in numbers you can act on.
We work best with companies between roughly $3M and $50M in revenue that need executive-level finance leadership but are not yet ready to carry a full-time CFO on payroll. Our clients include founder-owned, family-owned, and PE-backed businesses, with particular strength in logistics, manufacturing, and professional services such as managed service providers.
We are proud of our roots in the veteran and military community. Still North was founded by an Army veteran, and that background shapes how we work with every client: steady, direct, and focused on the mission in front of us.
Still North was built by hand-picking a team with experience at the highest levels of finance: Big 4 accounting, Goldman Sachs, and CPA-credentialed controllers and bookkeepers. We pair that expertise with a precise system of internal checks so the numbers hold up under scrutiny, whether they are going to a lender, a board, or an audit.
The name comes from Dartmouth’s alma mater, where “the still north” speaks to steadiness. Founder Chris Allen went to Dartmouth after the Army, and the two words carry the promise we make to clients: Still, a sense of calm in a noisy business environment, and North, a clear direction when financial uncertainty abounds.
Trust is earned through honesty and doing what is right, even when it is hard.
We invest in our clients' success and the communities we work in.
Thoughtful execution, high standards, continuous improvement.
The best outcomes come from working together, not from handing over instructions.
Still North was built by hand-picking a team with experience at the highest levels of finance: Big 4 accounting, Goldman Sachs, and CPA-credentialed controllers and bookkeepers. We pair that expertise with a precise system of internal checks so the numbers hold up under scrutiny, whether they are going to a lender, a board, or an audit.
Your tax CPA works on your business from the outside, mainly on compliance and taxes. A fractional CFO works inside the business, driving day-to-day financial decisions, forecasting, liquidity management, and capital planning. The skill sets are different, and most companies benefit from both.
When you need executive-level finance leadership but do not yet have the scale, complexity, or budget to justify a full-time CFO’s salary. For most of our clients, that falls in the $3M to $50M revenue range.
Engagements are scoped to what your business actually needs, not a one-size-fits-all package. Because we assign each task to the right specialist rather than putting everything on one expensive CFO, the total cost typically lands well below a full-time finance hire. We will walk you through the model on the intro call.
We move quickly. Because we are built to drive change from inside the business, we step in on day one and start executing, not just advising. Every business is different, so the intro call is where we map out a realistic start plan and a timeline for your specific situation.
If your books are behind, your cash is a mystery, or a deal is coming that your finance function is not built for, that is exactly where we do our best work.
We are the right fit for companies from roughly $3M to $50M in revenue that need cleaner books, real cash visibility, or finance leadership before making a full-time hire.
A 30-minute intro call with Managing Director Chris Allen, or send us your company name, industry, stage, and the challenge you are facing, and we will be in touch.
