a letson consulting company
“My creative work outgrew
my back office.”
The work is real, the clients are real, the money is real — and the financial side is held together with hope. Creative work still needs a back office. Preferably one that doesn’t murder the creative work.
Sound Familiar?
Every project makes money on paper, but you can never find it afterward.
Contractors, collaborators, and vendors get paid from memory and Venmo.
You have an LLC, a loan-out, or a production entity — and no system behind any of them.
Cash flow is feast or famine, and the famine always surprises you.
Tax season means a panicked archaeology dig through six platforms and a camera bag of receipts.
Creative businesses have genuinely weird finances — project-based income, irregular timing, collaborator splits, platform payouts. Generic small-business advice doesn’t fit. The answer isn’t becoming a different kind of person; it’s building a system that fits the way you actually work. This is Los Angeles — I’ve built back offices for the industry the rest of the country watches.
WHAT WORKING
TOGETHER
LOOKS LIKE
Project-based budgeting so every job has a number before it starts and a verdict after it ends.
Vendor, contractor, and collaborator tracking — clean payments, clean 1099s, clean relationships.
LLC and production entity organization: which money lives where, and why.
Cash flow planning built for irregular income instead of pretending you have a salary.
Expense categorization and documentation systems light enough that you’ll actually use them.
Financial reporting for projects, partners, and collaborators when the work involves more than just you.
Why Me
I’ve spent my career in the business of creative environments — hotels, restaurants, venues, productions — where the art and the spreadsheet have to coexist. I respect the work too much to bury it in finance theater. Structure should serve the creative work, not compete with it.
Built for clarity,
not corporate theater
Tell me what you make and how the money currently moves — even if the honest answer is “chaotically.” We’ll build the version of organized that fits you.