Your next CFO client just posted a job for a VP of Finance.
Right now a founder somewhere is budgeting $250K for a finance hire they only half need. Every morning by 7am we send you the companies that just posted Controller, VP Finance, and CFO roles, with decision-maker contacts and outreach already drafted.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a Controller posting is your best lead signal
A company posting for a Controller or VP Finance just told you three things. Budget is approved. The need is public. Nobody is hired yet. They set aside a full-time salary for the exact work you sell on a retainer, which is the pitch your whole industry was built on. We filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and other fractional firms posting the same titles. What lands in your inbox is companies you can actually win.
VP of Finance
Lakeshore Packaging Co.
“Lakeshore Packaging is a $14M family-owned manufacturer. We have outgrown QuickBooks and our outside CPA. We need a VP of Finance to own cash flow forecasting, margin analysis by product line, our banking relationship, and monthly reporting the owners can use.”
Why this is a lead:
They just budgeted $200K+ a year for finance leadership at a company with maybe a day a week of true CFO work. Everything in that posting, forecasting, margins, banking, reporting, is standard fractional scope at $3K to $10K a month. Reply this week and you are the alternative before the search gets serious. One signed retainer here is worth $36K to $120K a year.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Referrals from CPAs and bankers come in waves, then go quiet for a quarter.
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By the time a founder googles fractional CFO, three of your competitors are already in the room.
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Your best clients all say the same thing: I did not know this was an option until someone showed me.
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LinkedIn posts build the brand, but they do not tell you which company needs a CFO this month.
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Every finance search you never heard about is a $36K-a-year retainer that went to a salary instead.
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Full-time CFO
$200K-$350K+ first year
- 60 to 90 day recruiting timeline
- Benefits cost on top of salary
- Single point of failure
- Stuck with headcount when things slow down
Your firm instead
Fractional CFOs
$3K-$10K/month
A sub-$20M company does not need forty hours a week of CFO. They need forecasting, cash discipline, and numbers the board can trust. Your firm delivers that for a fraction of the salary they just budgeted, and you can start next week instead of after a 90-day search.
See the leads in your market before you pay for anything.
We'll run the real engine on your market, free, for seven days. Real reports, real postings, real contacts. Then it stops.
One firm per market
We only work with one fractional cfo firm per market.
Every lead in your market goes to you and nobody else. When your metro is taken, we turn the next firm away. That keeps the leads worth having, and it's the honest reason to decide before a competitor does.
$497 a month. That's the whole pricing page.
Daily Lead Delivery
$497/monthEvery morning: the companies that just posted for a role you replace, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach drafted in your voice. No setup fee. No contract, cancel anytime. And one firm per niche per market. If you're the fractional CFO firm in Denver, nobody else gets Denver fractional CFO leads.
60-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied? Full refund, no questions asked.
One client covers years of this. One owner's rep project, one CFO retainer, one managed IT contract. Any single one pays for Hidden Client many times over.
Get Started Risk-FreeFrequently asked questions
They posted a full-time job. Why would they hire us instead?
Because that argument is the whole fractional CFO industry. A first-year VP of Finance or CFO runs $200K to $350K with benefits, and a sub-$20M company usually needs ten hours a week of that brain, not forty. Postings stay open 30 to 60 days, so you have a real window to show up while the seat is empty. You are not talking them out of the hire, you are offering a faster, cheaper way to close the gap.
How do you avoid ghost jobs and reposts?
We watch postings nightly on LinkedIn and the hiring systems companies post through, like Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. Listings that keep getting reposted, sit stale for months, or come from staffing agencies and recruiters get filtered out before they reach you. Every lead shows when the posting went up and why it scored, so you can judge it yourself.
How many leads will I actually get?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. Our first client, an owner’s rep construction firm, got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. We would rather send you two companies worth calling than pad the list.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
You send it, from your own inbox. Each lead comes with an email drafted in your voice that references the exact posting, like the cash flow forecasting line in a Controller listing. It includes the decision-maker’s name, title, LinkedIn, and a verified email when we find one. Copy it, tweak it, or rewrite it.
Do you work with other fractional CFO firms in my market?
No. One firm per niche per market. If you take the fractional CFO spot in your market, the companies we find there go to you and nobody else.
What is the risk if it does not work?
Not much. We will run the engine free for 7 days first, real reports, then it stops unless you sign up. After that it is $497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, with a 60-day money-back guarantee. One client at even a $3K retainer pays for the whole year.
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From the Founder
Why I built this
I built Hidden Client because I kept seeing the same thing: a company posts a job, interviews for two months, and the firm that could have done the work never hears about it. That felt fixable with software, so I fixed it.
It's just me here, and I read every reply. If your leads are off, email me and your setup gets corrected the same day. That's the whole support department, and it's faster than most.
Jeremy Olken
Founder, Hidden Client · jeremy@hiddenclient.com
The postings are already up. The clock is already running.
Somewhere in your market, a company posted the role you replace this week. Signup takes about five minutes, and your first report lands tomorrow by 7am.
$497/mo. 60-day money-back guarantee.
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