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Growth Engineering for Consulting Firms – CFO for Consultants

Sarah Jenkins
Sarah Jenkins
Principal CFO Advisor
May 31, 2026
Growth Engineering for Consulting Firms – CFO for Consultants

High rates. Low profit.

Consulting firms bill $200-$500/hour and operate at 15-20% net margin. The math doesn't add up – until you trace every dollar. Unpaid scope. Underbilled hours. Client concentration risk. Retainers that haven't been raised in years. These are structural problems with structural solutions.

What We Engineer for Consulting Firms

We build the financial and delivery leverage that allows consulting firms to scale margins:

1

Engagement Pricing Audit

Pricing diagnostics across active client relationships to plug margin leaks.

2

Scope Management

Systems designed to capture and invoice every single billable moment of delivery.

3

Client Diversification

Mitigate risk by reducing client concentration and diversifying revenue streams.

4

Productized Service Frameworks

Design offerings that scale revenue without scaling partner delivery hours.

5

Partner Extraction

Extract key partners from day-to-day delivery—removing the costliest delivery dependency.

Your expertise is valuable. Your pricing and delivery structures should reflect that. We advise the advisors on engineering scale.

Sarah Jenkins

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