The Close Teardown · free · five a month

Forty-five minutes on your close. One page back.

Not a demo, and not a discovery call. You bring your close — the checklist, the calendar, the entity you argue with most — and we go through it together. Afterwards you get one written page about it, whether or not anything else ever happens.


What you leave with

One page, about your close, not about us

Written after the session and sent to you. Three things, each one specific to what we actually looked at.

Where the hours go The steps in your close ranked by how long they take and how much of that is a person re-keying, re-checking or waiting. Not a benchmark against other companies — a map of your own month.

Most teams have never seen their close written down in one place, in order, with times against it.

Which entities do not tie Where the same number is arrived at two ways and the two ways disagree — intercompany, a subledger, a schedule maintained outside the ledger, a consolidation that gets adjusted by hand every period.

These are the ones that turn into audit adjustments, and they are usually known but not written down.

The AI questions you cannot answer yet Your board, your audit committee, your carrier or your client is going to ask what AI touched the work and who approved it. We go through the questions and mark the ones you currently have no answer to.

Knowing which four you would fail is worth more than a maturity score that says you are a three out of five.

The page is yours to keep, forward, or hand to whoever asked the question. There is no version of this where you have to buy something to see what we found.


What we need from you

Forty-five minutes and one entity you know well.

Have your close checklist open in whatever form it really exists — a spreadsheet, a shared doc, or one person’s memory, which is an answer too. Pick one entity you know well enough to argue about.

No access, no credentials, nothing installed. You share your screen and we talk. We never ask for a login, and you should not give one to anybody who does at this stage.


Being straight with you

Why it is free, and why there are only five.

It is free because it is useful to us too

Every teardown teaches us something about how closes actually break. That is worth the time on its own, and it is a better use of it than writing another guide nobody asked for.

Five a month, because I run them

Not a scarcity device — a calendar. These are done live, by one person, and five is what fits alongside the build work. When the month is full, the next opening is the following month.

There is a paid step, and this is not it

If the page shows something worth going after, the next rung is a paid diagnostic: read-only access to your books, our tooling run against them, and a priced plan at the end. If it does not, you keep the page and we are done. Nobody follows up eleven times.


Book it

Pick a time.

Choose a slot and you get a calendar invite straight away. The questions on the booking form are the ones used to prepare — answering them properly is most of why the session works.

Pick any length that suits you and ask for forty-five minutes — that is the teardown, and it is the only session we run.

Calendar not loading, or you would rather just write? Email Owen directly and he will send times back.