Keeping Business in Business

GBCA is a business-to-business advisory firm that helps small and mid-sized companies fix their economics, sharpen their operations, and grow with discipline. We bring senior financial and operational leadership, marketing and sales systems, and applied AI — delivered as consulting, training, or hands-on implementation. Owners build enterprise value. The investors and lenders behind them get results they can measure.

Senior financial and operational leadership — without the full-time payroll.

GBCA gives small and mid-sized businesses the CFO, COO, marketing, sales, and AI capability they need to grow — as consulting, training, or hands-on implementation. Owners build value. Investors and lenders get results they can measure.

Most businesses don't have a strategy problem. They have an execution problem.

Costs are rising faster than pricing power. Cash is tight even when revenue is up. The founder is the bottleneck, and every decision routes through one desk. The books are late, so the numbers can't be trusted — which means the next raise, sale, or loan is harder than it should be. None of that is solved by more advice. It is solved by fixing the engine.


FIVE DISCIPLINES, THREE WAYS TO ENGAGE


We work across the functions that decide whether a business grows profitably — and we meet you at the level you need: guidance, capability-building, or done-with-you delivery.

Financial Leadership

Fractional CFO capability: cash-flow forecasting, KPI dashboards, budget and close oversight, scenario models, capital and lender-readiness, and disciplined treasury on idle cash.

Accounting and Controls

Bookkeeping oversight, the controller function, and a monthly close you can trust — because every downstream decision depends on numbers that are right.

Marketing and Sales

Fractional COO capability: operating plans, process and SOP design, an accountability cadence, and hiring and vendor systems that take the founder out of the critical path.

Applied AI

We don't sell AI enthusiasm. We embed one tool in one workflow, measured against a named metric — closing the gap between businesses that talk about AI and the few that get a real return from it.

  WHY GBCA

  • Diagnosis before prescription. A fixed-price, fixed-scope diagnostic on your own data. No open-ended proposals, no surprises.
  • The right leader for the real constraint. CFO, COO, or both — routed to what is actually costing you money.
  • Recurring, productized delivery. Defined packages and predictable pricing, not a meter running on billable hours.
  • Built to hand over. Documented systems that outlast the engagement and any single person.


  We work for the people with something at stake in the business —    inside it and behind it.

  • Private equity and investors — hit the operating plan and protect the return.
  • Banks and lenders — borrowers who are ready, reporting that holds up, risk that goes down.
  • Owners and operators — clarity in the finances, discipline in the operations, and a business worth more.


The operating partner behind the numbers.

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