Serving Denver and the Front Range Virtually
Fractional CFO and CMO — Denver and the Colorado Front Range
Local Fractional provides partner-led fractional CFO and CMO services to Denver 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 remote-first to Denver businesses, with travel for board meetings, planning, and other key on-site moments. Co-founders Chris Gauvin and Taber Wetz lead every engagement directly.
Dallas-based financial and marketing leadership, delivered virtually to Colorado businesses.
Why Denver Businesses Work with a Dallas-Based Firm
Denver's cost of living has risen sharply over the past decade, and fractional executive rates have climbed with it. Colorado-based consultants carry Front Range overhead — higher rents, higher taxes, and a labor market that has gotten significantly more expensive. We operate from Dallas, where the cost structure is meaningfully lower, and we pass that advantage directly to our clients.
The work product is identical — cash flow modeling, forecasting, strategic planning, marketing strategy, and the full scope of fractional CFO services — but the economics are different. You get senior-level financial and marketing leadership without paying for someone else's Cherry Creek office lease.
There is also a practical advantage to working across markets. Denver's business community, while strong, can be insular. An outside perspective from advisors who work with companies across the country — trades businesses, SaaS companies, CPG brands, professional services firms — brings pattern recognition that a purely local consultant may not have.
And the time zone difference is negligible. Mountain and Central are one hour apart. We schedule calls during normal business hours on both ends, and async communication through Slack or email fills any gaps. It is a non-issue in practice.
The Denver Business Landscape
Colorado's economy is one of the most diversified in the country. The outdoor and recreation industry anchors a significant portion of the state's identity and revenue. Cannabis has matured from a frontier market into a legitimate industry with real compliance, accounting, and growth-planning needs. And the tech sector — particularly along the Boulder-Denver corridor — continues to produce SaaS companies that need financial infrastructure as they scale past founder-led finance.
The construction and trades sector along the Front Range is especially active. Residential and commercial development from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs has created a wave of HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing companies that are scaling fast — often faster than their back-office operations can support. These businesses need CFO-level guidance to manage cash flow through rapid growth, plan for equipment investments, and build the financial discipline that supports long-term value.
Whether you are a SaaS company in Boulder that has outgrown spreadsheet-based finance, a trades business in Aurora managing a dozen crews, or a professional services firm in LoDo preparing for a future exit — the challenge is the same. You need experienced financial leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. That is exactly the gap we fill.
Front Range Communities We Serve
We already work with a Colorado client and travel to the Front Range several times a year, so this is a market we know rather than a pin on a map. Day-to-day the work is remote — the same way we serve clients nationwide — with in-person time quarterly or as the engagement calls for it. The whole corridor is served on identical terms, with no travel surcharge and no difference in access between a Denver client and one in Fort Collins.
Denver & Downtown / LoDo / RiNo
Our largest Colorado concentration. Typical engagements run monthly close and cash-flow forecasting for companies between $2M and $30M in revenue, plus board and lender reporting for founders raising or refinancing.
Boulder
Boulder's mix of venture-backed software and consumer-products companies needs a different reporting cadence than a services firm — runway, burn and unit economics rather than utilisation. We build the forecast around whichever one actually drives the decision.
Golden & Lakewood
Manufacturing, construction and specialty-trade businesses along the western corridor, where job costing and work-in-progress schedules are usually the gap between the books and reality.
Louisville, Longmont & Broomfield
The US-36 corridor runs heavily to light manufacturing and B2B services. These are often first-time CFO engagements where the immediate need is a reliable 13-week cash view before anything strategic.
Fort Collins & Loveland
Northern Colorado companies frequently reach us after outgrowing a bookkeeper but well before a full-time CFO is affordable. That gap is the core of what we do.
Greenwood Village & the DTC
Professional services and financial firms in the Tech Center, where partner distributions and project-level profitability are usually the reporting that's missing.
Aurora, Arvada & Westminster
Established local operators across the metro — home services, distribution and light industrial — typically wanting clearer margin visibility by service line or location.
Colorado Springs
Defence, aerospace suppliers and their subcontractors, where contract accounting and cash timing against milestone billing drive most of the finance workload.
How Virtual Delivery Works
If you can use Zoom, we can work together. Our clients in Denver and across Colorado get the same weekly check-ins, financial reporting, and strategic guidance as our Dallas clients. The only difference is one time zone — and that has never been a barrier.
Every engagement starts with a deep-dive into your business: financials, operations, competitive landscape, and goals. From there, we build a working rhythm — typically weekly or biweekly calls, shared dashboards, and async communication through Slack or email as needed.
The virtual model is not new for us. It is how we have delivered results for clients across the country since day one. You get the same rigor and responsiveness as a local hire — without the local price tag.
What does a fractional CMO do for a Denver business?
A fractional CMO is the person accountable when someone asks whether the marketing budget earned its keep. That covers positioning and the offer, which channels get funded, and the discipline of cutting the ones that do not perform.
Led by our marketing partner as a separate discipline. Some clients only ever use this side. Where both engagements run, the monthly review shows marketing spend and the revenue traced to it side by side, and decisions get simpler.
Front Range engagements skew toward B2B and technology companies needing a pipeline model an investor will accept rather than a dashboard of activity, consumer and outdoor brands whose blended acquisition cost is hiding one channel subsidising three, and professional-services firms competing on reputation with no system for building one. Smaller and mid-sized operators are well served here too — the discipline scales down without losing its point.
See the fractional CMO engagement for scope and pricing. When cash visibility is the sharper need, the CFO side comes first.
Why Denver companies find us through marketing searches first
Worth being straightforward about: Denver businesses searching for a fractional CMO find us more readily than those searching on the finance side, and the engagements reflect it. Denver's marketing talent market is deep but agency-saturated, and the owners who reach us have usually been through the retainer cycle already — good creative, rising spend, and no one able to say which channel actually paid for itself. That accountability gap is precisely the seat we fill, and it is the same seat whether the company sells software, gear, or professional services.
The two sides also meet in the middle more often here than in most markets: a Front Range company that starts with marketing accountability tends to discover its forecast cannot support the growth the pipeline now predicts, and the CFO engagement picks up from there.
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.
Denver & Front Range — Common Questions
What fractional CFO services are available in Denver, CO?
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 are typically a fixed monthly scope rather than hourly, so the cost is predictable.
Do you have an office in Colorado, and would we ever meet in person?
We don't keep an office in Colorado, and we're candid that this is not a weekly in-person engagement. But we're in the Front Range regularly — we already work with a Colorado client whose team is based there, and we make several trips up through the year. Meeting quarterly in person, or more often when something warrants it, is a normal part of how we'd run your engagement. The day-to-day work happens the way it does for our clients everywhere: scheduled working sessions, shared dashboards and direct access to your accounting system.
What fractional CFO services are available in Boulder, CO?
The same scope as Denver. Boulder engagements skew toward venture-backed software and consumer-products companies, so they more often centre on runway, burn rate and unit economics than on utilisation or job costing.
What fractional CFO services are available in Fort Collins, CO?
The same scope as Denver. Northern Colorado companies typically come to us after outgrowing a bookkeeper but before a full-time CFO is affordable, so the first work is usually a reliable monthly close and a 13-week cash view.
How much does a fractional CFO cost in Colorado?
We price on scope rather than location, so Colorado rates match our Texas rates. Most engagements land well below the fully-loaded cost of a full-time CFO, and you can see current ranges on our pricing guide.
Does working with a remote CFO actually work?
It is how the large majority of our clients work with us, across the country. Modern accounting systems are cloud-based, so a remote CFO sees exactly what an in-office one would. What matters far more is the cadence — a standing monthly or fortnightly session where decisions actually get made.
Ready to Talk?
No pitch, just a conversation about your business and where you want to take it. We will figure out together if there is a fit.
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