Improve cash flow · the outcome
Profitable on paper isn’t the same as cash in the bank.
Most owners don’t have a profit problem — they have cash tied up in pricing, margin, working capital, and a forecast they can’t trust. We find where your cash is stuck, quantify it, and free it in priority order.
Start here
Where is your cash getting stuck?
The Instant Read gives you a red / yellow / green picture of where cash is trapped — and names the one costing you the most.
Pricing power
RED — leaving money on the tableGross margin
YELLOW — drifting, unmanagedCost structure
GREEN — lean and deliberateWorking capital
RED — cash trapped in the cycleCollections & AR
YELLOW — slow to collectCash forecast
RED — you can't see 90 days outIllustrative. Your real answers and public signals set the bands.
Diagnose
One diagnostic, three depths
The Finance Diagnostic, sharpening at each level. Go as deep as the decision warrants.
Autonomous
The Instant Read
A few questions and a read of your public signals. Where cash is likely stuck, free, in five minutes.
Hybrid
The Health Read
Selected numbers read against the model — root causes tied to enterprise value, with confidence.
Advisory
The Full Assessment
The Enterprise Value Assessment — 36 drivers scored, with the cash at stake quantified and sequenced.
What you’ll see
Numbers most owners have never seen on their own business.
Enterprise value, cash conversion, margin quality, forecast accuracy — the read leads with where cash is stuck and what it costs, then shows the score beneath. Yours to keep.
Why it gets sharper
Every read makes the next one sharper.
Your Enterprise Value score isn’t a number we invented — it’s measured against a living picture of what good looks like, built from every diagnostic we run. Operators, models, and your data, compounding.
Every assessment sharpens the benchmark
The picture of top-quartile performance gets more precise with every business we read.
Every engagement sharpens the model
The engine behind the reads keeps learning what predicts trapped cash — so the diagnosis gets better over time.
Your data stays yours
Benchmarks are aggregate and anonymized. Your numbers inform the picture; they never leave it.
That’s why the read is worth more each quarter — and why OGC gets sharper the more of the market it measures.
The thinking
How predictable cash flow actually gets built
The Four Layers
Strategy, structure, systems, and cash — read as one stack, not four silos.
Enterprise Value Drivers
What a buyer pays a premium for: predictable, high-quality cash flow.
The Cash Conversion Cycle
Where profit turns into cash — or gets stuck on the way.
Tools & benchmarks
Run the numbers yourself
Calculators
- Enterprise Value estimator
- Cash conversion cycle
- Pricing power & margin
- Working capital release
Benchmarks
- Gross & net margin by sector
- Days sales outstanding
- EBITDA multiples
- Forecast accuracy
How far you take it
Choose how much help you want.
From running the read yourself to a finance operator in the seat — the same engine underneath.
Fractional CFO
A finance operator in the seat, without the full-time hire.
Enterprise Value
The strategic layer that makes the business worth more.
Project & Transition
A defined outcome — a raise, a system, a turnaround.
M&A & Transactions
The financial rigor that makes a deal hold up.