For fractional CFO practices · automated finance ops
The fractional CFO isthe new operating partner.
Pastel turns your office into a continuous insight platform. Every client's books watched in the background, every anomaly surfaced, every monthly pack ready before the deadline.

- Vendor double-billed · Atlas Industries · $24K
- T&E +47% MoM · Beacon Software · review
- Monthly pack ready · Cascade Health
From client books to monthly pack. In four moves.
Three signals on every client. One pane of glass.
Pastel watches every client's books, your team's capacity, and close status, and surfaces what needs your judgement.
Vendor double-billed across two divisions
Atlas Industries · same vendor invoiced twice, charged to procurement and engineering codes in the same week.
T&E expense +47% month over month
Beacon Software · travel and entertainment spike outside historical bands; one expense report exceeds policy by 3x.
312 GL entries reclassified to marketing
Horizon Logistics · pattern of misclassification across last quarter would understate operating expense if left as-is.
Run a question across the books. See the answer, cited.
Pick one of three sample client books and ask anything, from runway to margin to anomalies. Pastel answers from the numbers, with the chart to back it, in seconds.
One dashboard. Twelve clients.
Billing, utilization, anomalies. The practice metrics that used to live in a spreadsheet now run live across every engagement.
- Billing tracked against agreement, every client
- Utilization and capacity visible in real time
- Anomalies auto-surfaced before they become surprises
Run Pastel on your last close.
See what slipped through.
A 20-minute walkthrough. We run Pastel against a sample data room and show you the kind of findings it surfaces, cited line by line. No commitment.