a letson consulting company
“I’m starting or
growing,
and I want structure
before it gets messy.”
Clean setup now prevents expensive cleanup later. A little structure early saves a lot of yelling into the void down the road.
Sound Familiar?
You’re past the launch but the back office is still duct tape — a spreadsheet here, a shoebox there.
Your chart of accounts came from a template that has nothing to do with your business.
Nobody owns vendor payments, customer invoicing, or document filing — so everybody half-does.
You can’t answer “how did we do last month?” without an archaeology project.
You’re about to hire, borrow, or expand, and you know the current setup won’t survive it.
Most founders build the product first and the back office never. That’s normal — but the businesses that scale smoothly are the ones that put structure in before the chaos arrives, not after. This is the cheapest this fix will ever be.
WHAT WORKING
TOGETHER
LOOKS LIKE
Chart of accounts planning designed around how your business actually operates — not a template.
QuickBooks and accounting workflow setup: bank feeds, rules, classes, locations, items.
Vendor, customer, and payment process design so money in and money out both have a system.
Document organization and basic policy/procedure development — light, practical, used.
Owner reporting dashboards: the handful of numbers you should see every month, automatically.
Back-office structure that scales with the next hire instead of breaking under them.
Why Me
I built the entire pre-opening accounting infrastructure for The New York EDITION — every account, control, and workflow, from zero, on a deadline, for one of the most scrutinized hotel openings in the world. Your business deserves the same discipline at the right scale.
Built for clarity,
not administrative
theater
Tell me what you’re building and where the back office stands today. I’ll give you an honest read on what needs structure now and what can genuinely wait.