You scored the business. You found the gap you nearly always find — the owner is the business — and you wrote it up plainly. The owner agreed with every word. Then the engagement went quiet, because closing that gap is a project, and the only person who could run it is the one person in the company with no spare hours. A trained VRA assistant is the capacity that turns your recommendation into something that actually happened.
Keeping me honest on everything that I have going on.Austin Galvez · CPA
Your assessment tools are good. The owner usually believes the findings. What stalls an engagement is almost never disagreement — it is that nobody in the building has the hours to act.
Not an initiative added to a full plate. A person whose actual work is capturing how the business runs and then running it.
A flat monthly rate rather than a hire, so the owner is not weighing a permanent salary against a temporary-feeling project.
Documentation produced while the work is being done, not an away-day where somebody tries to remember the process.
A period where the owner stepped back and the business kept moving — which is the evidence your recommendation was asking for.
We are hands, not advisors. Everything that makes your engagement yours stays yours.
If your engagement ends and ours continues, your recommendation is still the reason any of it happened.
Austin Galvez is a CPA. His thirty-day check-in, on the part of this that is hardest to buy.
“He’s helped me make sure things that have been falling through the cracks no longer fall through the cracks, and keeping me honest on everything that I have going on.”
Advisory work is mostly the week after the meeting, and that is usually the week that gets away from everyone.
No. We do not assess, score, value, or advise on structure or timing, and we have no ambition to. The work we do is the implementation of one recommendation you have already made.
That is the better version of this. A long runway means the business genuinely operates without the owner for years before anyone looks at it, rather than showing a recent change. It also means the owner gets their own time back in the meantime, which tends to be what keeps them engaged with the plan.
The owner. A flat $1,500 a month for full-time or $800 for part-time, on a three-month commitment — no hourly billing, no payroll, no benefits. The pricing page has the detail. Nothing is ever billed to you.
If the owner wants you kept in the loop, yes. We will not report on a client behind their back, and we will not go quiet on you either — the owner decides which it is at the start.
Yes. VRA pays a referral fee when an introduction becomes a placement. Michael will walk you through the terms, and it is entirely optional — including whether it features in the conversation with your client at all.
Yes. Assistants are trained as generalists and matched to the business. The work of capturing how a company operates is much the same whether it is a distributor, a clinic, a contractor or a professional practice.
The same work reads differently depending on where you sit. These are written separately for a reason.