Tarrant County
Fractional CFO and CMO — Arlington, Texas and the Mid-Cities
Local Fractional provides partner-led fractional CFO and CMO services to Arlington businesses generating $2M–$50M in revenue. The Fractional CFO Partnership is a flat $5,000–$10,000+/month retainer (with a lighter $2,500/month Fractional Executive Advisory tier for businesses with clean books), delivered in person across Arlington and the wider Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Co-founders Chris Gauvin and Taber Wetz lead every engagement directly.
Financial and marketing leadership for businesses between Dallas and Fort Worth.
Why Arlington, Texas operators work with us
Arlington sits at the centre of the Metroplex’s working economy — manufacturing, logistics, construction, entertainment and the service businesses that keep all four running. It is not a headquarters town, and the finance problems here are operating problems rather than reporting-to-a-parent ones.
We are a Dallas–Fort Worth firm, so this is home ground rather than an expansion market. In-person is straightforward here rather than a logistics exercise. Every engagement is led personally by a founding partner — Chris Gauvin or Taber Wetz — with controller-level support underneath where the books need rebuilding rather than just reporting.
The businesses we do our best work with in Arlington are owner-operated, somewhere between $2M and $50M, and profitable enough that nobody has been forced to fix the reporting. The books record what happened. Nobody can say what cash looks like in thirteen weeks or which job actually earned. See how the engagement model works.
For the avoidance of doubt: this page is about Arlington, Texas, in Tarrant County. We serve clients nationwide and are glad to talk to businesses in Arlington, Virginia or Upper Arlington, Ohio — but the local knowledge described here is Texan.
Arlington and Mid-Cities Areas We Serve
The Mid-Cities and southern Tarrant County are served as one market on identical terms — no travel surcharge, and no difference in access between an Arlington client and one in DeSoto.
Arlington & the entertainment district
Hospitality, events and the service businesses around the stadiums. Demand is spiky and largely predictable, which makes it forecastable — but only if the model is built around the calendar rather than on a trailing average.
Grand Prairie & the logistics corridor
Distribution, warehousing and light manufacturing along the I 30 and SH 161 corridors. Inventory timing and customer concentration carry most of the cash risk, and neither is visible on a standard P&L.
Mansfield & Kennedale
Construction, specialty trades and home services scaling with household growth. Job costing and work-in-progress schedules are almost always the gap between the books and reality — see our construction and contracting practice.
Euless, Bedford & Hurst
Aviation-adjacent suppliers, professional services and established owner-operated businesses. Frequently first-time CFO engagements where the first need is a close that closes on time.
Irving & Las Colinas
Corporate services, technology and multi-entity operators. Consolidated reporting across entities is usually the reporting that is missing rather than the reporting that is wrong.
Cedar Hill, Duncanville & DeSoto
Local operators across home services, retail and light industrial. Multi-location margin comparison is usually the first thing that changes decisions and the first thing missing.
Manufacturing across southern Tarrant County
Metals, plastics and contract manufacturers, many of them second generation. Equipment financing decisions and the cash timing around them drive more of the finance workload than anything on the P&L.
Trades and field-service businesses
The Arlington economy runs on them. Crew-level profitability, truck utilisation and the true cost of a callback are the numbers that change decisions, and almost none of them are in the monthly close.
The Arlington Trades Economy
Arlington's residential and commercial construction activity generates consistent demand for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing services. The mix of older residential neighborhoods requiring maintenance and new developments in south Arlington and Mansfield creates a two-sided revenue opportunity for trades companies.
Private equity firms are actively acquiring trades businesses along the I-30 corridor. If you own a trades company in Arlington doing $3M or more in revenue, understanding your financial position and your options is not optional — it is urgent. We help you see those options clearly and position for the best outcome.
Also Serving Across DFW
What does a fractional CMO do for an Arlington business?
Marketing accountability, in one seat. Somebody has to be able to say which campaigns paid for themselves, which channel deserves next quarter's budget, and what to stop doing. In most mid-sized companies nobody senior owns those calls, and the spend drifts.
Our marketing partner leads this work directly. It is a distinct practice from the CFO side, and you can engage it on its own. Run both and the reporting gets unusually honest: the spend and the return land in the same monthly review.
Arlington engagements skew toward trades and field-service businesses where lead flow has always come from reputation and repeat custom, and multi-location operators where cost per acquisition varies wildly by branch and nobody is looking.
See how the fractional CMO engagement works, or read about the CFO side if finance is the more urgent gap.
Who you will actually work with
Worth being concrete about, because it is the difference that matters most. A great many firms match you to a consultant from a bench, and the person who wins the engagement is not the person who runs it. Here every engagement is led personally by a founding partner — the same person in month one and in month thirty.
Chris Gauvin
Co-Founder & Fractional CFO
Leads finance engagements personally — monthly close, cash-flow forecasting, lender and board reporting, and exit preparation.
Taber Wetz
Co-Founder & Fractional CFO
Leads finance engagements personally, with a focus on forecasting, pricing and margin work, and preparing a business to be sold.
Melissa Valdez
Fractional CMO
Leads the marketing practice — positioning, channel mix and the funnel maths that says which spend actually produced revenue.
Explainers
The questions that come up before anyone signs anything, answered in one picture each.
Fractional vs Interim vs Full-Time CFO
Three different instruments. Which one your situation actually calls for.
What a Fractional CFO Costs
The three tiers, what each includes, and why we price on scope not location.
CFO + CMO: Who Owns What
Two silos, one bridge. Marketing knows what it spent; finance knows what came back.
Your First 90 Days
Books cleaned, a cash view you can rely on, then the decisions those two change.
The 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast
Cash in, cash out, and the balance week by week — far enough ahead to act.
Arlington, Texas and the Mid-Cities — Common Questions
What fractional CFO services are available in Arlington, TX?
Monthly close and management reporting, 13-week cash-flow forecasting, budgeting and variance analysis, KPI scorecards, lender and board reporting, pricing and margin work, and exit or sale preparation. Engagements run as a fixed monthly scope rather than an hourly rate, so the cost is predictable from month one.
Is this page about Arlington, Texas or Arlington, Virginia?
Arlington, Texas, in Tarrant County. We serve clients nationwide and are glad to talk to businesses in Arlington, Virginia or Upper Arlington, Ohio — the engagement model is identical — but the local market knowledge described here is Texan.
Are you actually local to Arlington?
We are a Dallas-Fort Worth firm, so this is home ground rather than an expansion market and in-person is straightforward. The day-to-day work runs the way it does for all our clients: scheduled working sessions, shared dashboards and direct access to your accounting system.
We run a trades business. What would change first?
Job costing, almost always. The recurring pattern is a P&L reporting a margin the jobs never earned, because work-in-progress was never reconciled. Getting crew-level profitability and the true cost of a callback visible usually changes pricing decisions within a quarter.
Do you serve Grand Prairie, Mansfield and the Mid-Cities?
Yes, on identical terms. There is no travel surcharge and no difference in access between an Arlington client and one in DeSoto or Bedford.
How much does a fractional CFO cost in Arlington?
We price on scope rather than on location, so Arlington rates match our Dallas rates. Most engagements land well below the fully loaded cost of a full-time CFO once salary, bonus, benefits and payroll taxes are counted.
Do you offer fractional CMO services in Arlington as well?
Yes, and it is a separate discipline led by our marketing partner rather than a CFO wearing a second hat. It runs alongside a CFO engagement or entirely on its own.
What happens in the first ninety days?
Unglamorous things, mostly. A close that closes on time, a 13-week cash view you can rely on, and a short list of the decisions those two change. We would rather earn the strategic conversation than open with it.
Ready to Talk?
No pitch, just a conversation about your Arlington business.
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