For small businesses & restaurants
Nautilus Strategies & Consulting gives owner-operators the financial insight of a full finance team — cost build-outs, fractional CFO guidance, and clear-eyed financial breakdowns — without the full-finance-team payroll.
Cost build-outs
know what everything really costs
Fractional CFO
senior finance leadership, part-time
Financial breakdowns
your numbers, finally legible
What we do
Engage one, or combine all three. Every engagement starts with the same thing: your real numbers, on the table.
Every dish, every product, every service line — priced from the ground up with real ingredient, labor, and overhead costs. Stop guessing margins and start engineering them.
Senior finance leadership on a schedule that fits your business. Budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, and a steady hand for the decisions that shape your future.
A full diagnostic of where your money actually goes. We untangle your P&L, surface hidden leaks, and hand you a plain-language action plan.
Who we serve
We work exclusively with owner-operators — people close enough to the numbers to care, and busy enough to need a partner who handles the detail.
Full-service, fast-casual, cafés, and bars. Menu engineering, food and labor cost control, and the weekly numbers that keep a service profitable.
Retail, trades, studios, and local services. Pricing that holds up, clean books you can act on, and growth plans grounded in cash, not hope.
Opening a second location, absorbing a rent increase, or just tired of working hard without knowing what's working — the work is the same: make the numbers tell the truth.
How it works
A free conversation about your business, your goals, and what's keeping you up at night. No pitch — just listening.
We pull apart your books, costs, and operations, then walk you through what we found in plain language — with the math to back it up.
Cost build-outs, budgets, forecasts, and recurring reporting — plus ongoing CFO guidance as your business grows.
Why the nautilus
Nautilus Strategies & Consulting was founded on a simple observation: the businesses that most need sharp financial guidance — independent restaurants and small companies — are the least able to hire it full-time. We grow the spiral the same way the nautilus does: chamber by chamber, each expansion built on the strength of the last.
Practical analysis. Plain language. Numbers you can actually use on Monday morning.
Get started
Tell us a little about your business and what you'd like to understand better. We'll set up a free discovery call — no cost, no obligation.
Email — info@nautilus-strategies.net
Response time — within one business day
