Fortune 50 Operating Experience
You shouldn't need a Fortune 500 budget to run like one.
Corval helps small and mid-sized businesses fix what's actually costing them money - finance, operations, and the practical use of AI. Diagnosed and implemented, not handed over in a deck.
Most of what large companies do well isn't expensive. It's just organized.
Clean numbers you can trust. Pricing that reflects what things actually cost. Work that runs on a system instead of on whoever happens to remember it.
That's the gap we close. Not a transformation program - the three or four things actually costing you money, fixed in the order that pays for the next one.
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Who we work with
Two kinds of businesses hire us.
Service contractors
Landscaping, lawn care, snow, cleaning. Crews, routes, seasonal programs, and job-level profit you can't currently see.
See the contractor practice →Everyone else
Distribution, professional services, light manufacturing, healthcare services. Finance and back-office work that's outgrown the way it's done today.
See how we work →The Gap
You shouldn't need a Fortune 500 budget to run like one.
Drowning in manual finance work
AP, close, reporting—your team works late, the numbers still arrive late.
AI is everywhere, nothing has stuck
Pilots without owners. Tools without workflows. ROI is a slide, not a number.
Growth without margin
Revenue is up. Operating leverage isn't. You're scaling cost, not contribution.
No clear financial picture
Forecasts go stale in a week. Cash visibility ends at next Friday.
Playbooks
The Playbooks
The problems we fix most often, and how we'd attack each one. No promised percentages - just the approach.
The close that takes two weeks
Books close on day 12. By the time you see the month, you can't do anything about it, and half the month's decisions were made blind.
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Pricing built on old cost assumptions
The price list was built when labor, materials and insurance cost what they cost three years ago. Nobody rebuilt it. Margin erodes quietly and gets blamed on volume.
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The back office that can't take another customer
Invoicing, AP, collections and payroll all run on someone typing. Growth means hiring another someone, so margin doesn't improve with scale.
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Job-level profit you can't see
You know total revenue and total cost. You don't know which jobs, crews or customers make money - so you can't fire the bad ones or bid the good ones harder.
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The week that falls apart when it rains
One weather day cascades. Crews idle, routes get rebuilt by phone, and the recovery costs more than the lost day did.
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Customers who quietly stop calling
Attrition doesn't announce itself in this business. A property drops off the route and it takes a season to notice the revenue is gone.
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Engagement Models
Three ways to engage.
From a 30-day sprint to ongoing fractional CFO leadership—meet you where you are.
AI Sprint
Diagnose bottlenecks, identify the highest-ROI AI plays, and ship a 90-day roadmap.
- AI readiness score across 12 dimensions
- Ranked map of automation opportunities
- 3 quick-win prototypes built and demoed
- 30-day cash flow action plan
Operational Advisory
Quarterly partnership to deploy AI, modernize finance ops, and improve margin month over month.
- Back-office automation deployment
- Custom dashboards on real KPIs
- SOPs and accountability systems
- Budgeting and margin improvement program
Executive Partner
Fractional CFO leadership and end-to-end transformation program ownership.
- Fractional CFO leadership
- Multi-year capital and ops strategy
- Organizational design and capability mapping
- Board and lender representation
Case · PE-backed Distributor
A regional beverage distributor was bleeding margin through duplicate vendors. We deployed AP automation, an FP&A copilot, and a vendor rationalization program in two quarters.
Read the case →90-Day Transformation
Measurable impact in one quarter.
Diagnose
AI readiness scoring, finance stack audit, opportunity map.
Prototype
Three quick-win automations built and demoed live.
Deploy
Top plays moved into production. Owners assigned. Metrics wired.
Scale
Expand winners, retire what didn't work, hand off operations.
Build Studio
We don't just advise. We build.
When the right tool doesn't exist off the shelf, we build it. From single-purpose apps that solve one painful workflow to full enterprise platforms—designed, shipped, and supported by the same team that scoped the problem.
Internal Tools & Apps
Lightweight web apps that replace spreadsheets, eliminate handoffs, and put data in the hands of the people doing the work.
AI Copilots & Agents
Domain-trained assistants that draft, summarize, and decide—wired into your CRM, ERP, and inbox so they actually move the needle.
Enterprise Platforms
Production-grade systems built for scale: multi-tenant, role-based, integrated, and ready for the field on day one.
Featured Build · Route & Retain
The operating system for the recurring-visit service business.
Lawn care, landscaping, and cleaning crews live and die by two numbers: dollars per hour on property and how many customers come back next season. The tools they're handed weren't built for either. ServiceTitan is too heavy, Jobber is too thin, and the rest is a Frankenstein of spreadsheets, group texts, and a routing app from 2014.
Route & Retain replaces that stack with a single AI-native platform. Recurring jobs persist as real commitments on the crew calendar—not weekly suggestions a dispatcher has to re-approve. Routes optimize against drive time, weather, and crew capacity. Profit shows up on every screen, down to the visit. And when a customer starts behaving like they're about to cancel, the system says so—before the renewal call.
Featured Engagement · Electrical Services Holdco
Three companies. One ledger. A real path to exit.
A founder-led holdco had rolled up three regional electrical contractors — three ledgers, three charts of accounts, three bookkeepers, three versions of the truth. The consolidated P&L lived in a spreadsheet that was wrong by the time it hit the CEO's inbox. Any acquirer asking for a clean trailing twelve would have walked.
Corval rebuilt the back office. We migrated all three entities onto a single ERP and a unified chart of accounts, automated AP, payroll allocation, and intercompany eliminations with AI, and stood up a real-time consolidated reporting layer the CEO can open on his phone. Then we built the capital story on top of it: a defensible valuation model, a buy-side thesis for the next two tuck-ins, and a data room a strategic or PE buyer can diligence.
Tools we deploy
5-Minute Assessment
Where are you on the AI curve?
A 10-question diagnostic across data, finance, process, and culture. You get a scored readiness report and a ranked list of plays that fit your stack.
No email gate · Results in 5 min
It's later than you think
Ready to run leaner, smarter, more profitable?
Every engagement starts with execution. No fluff. No drawn-out timelines. Just fast insights, measurable impact, and long-term value.