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.

12 clients · live
Atlas Industries
Beacon Software
Cascade Health
Horizon Logistics
Meridian Capital
Practice · today
Live
47 signals across 12 clients
  • 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.

Anomalies
Unusual transactions across every client, surfaced as they land.
3 signals
high

Vendor double-billed across two divisions

Atlas Industries · same vendor invoiced twice, charged to procurement and engineering codes in the same week.

$24K duplicate · pending reversal
medium

T&E expense +47% month over month

Beacon Software · travel and entertainment spike outside historical bands; one expense report exceeds policy by 3x.

$18K outside policy
medium

312 GL entries reclassified to marketing

Horizon Logistics · pattern of misclassification across last quarter would understate operating expense if left as-is.

P&L restatement · $86K
Interactive demo · built for CFO practices

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.

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Sample books
3 datasets
SaaS Inc.Agency Co.Retail Ltd.
What drove the change in gross margin last quarter?Ask
What drove the EBITDA variance last quarter?How much cash runway is left?Top 5 expenses this month
Answer · cited
Gross margin rose 3.2pts, driven mainly by lower cloud hosting cost as a share of revenue.

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
Client portfolio · billing
trailing 6 months · $K
Active clients
12
Total billed
$1.24M
Realization
92%

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.

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