Tarrant County
Fractional CFO and CMO — Fort Worth and Tarrant County
Local Fractional provides partner-led fractional CFO and CMO services to Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth and the wider Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Co-founders Chris Gauvin and Taber Wetz lead every engagement directly.
Financial and marketing leadership for Fort Worth businesses that want to grow on their own terms.
Is Fort Worth just the other half of Dallas?
No, and treating it that way is how outside firms lose the room. Fort Worth companies are more often family-held, longer-horizon and considerably more sceptical of consultants than their Dallas counterparts. The businesses here were frequently built over two or three generations, and the person across the table has usually watched an adviser oversell something before.
We are based in Dallas–Fort Worth, so this is not a market we visit — it is the one we operate in. That means in-person is genuinely easy rather than a logistics exercise, and it means the local context is not something we researched: how a Tarrant County bank underwrites a contractor, what Alliance-corridor growth has done to labour costs, why a Weatherford operator prices differently from a Southlake one.
What we do not do is arrive with a coastal playbook and a deck. 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. See how the engagement model works.
If you are weighing this against an interim hire, they are different instruments. An interim CFO fills a full-time seat that has just emptied, usually while you recruit. A fractional CFO is a permanent part-time seat — the same person, every month, indefinitely. Most Fort Worth enquiries that arrive asking for an interim actually want the second one.
Fort Worth and Tarrant County Areas We Serve
Tarrant County and the western half of the Metroplex are served as one market on identical terms. What changes between these areas is the shape of the business — and the reporting follows the business rather than the postcode.
Downtown & Sundance Square
Professional services, financial firms and the long-established operators around them. Partner distributions and project-level profitability are usually the reporting that is missing rather than the reporting that is wrong.
The Cultural District & West 7th
Hospitality, creative studios and consumer-facing businesses. Margin by location and by daypart drives the decisions here, and it is almost never in the monthly close.
Alliance & North Fort Worth
Logistics, distribution and light manufacturing along the I 35W corridor. Inventory timing and customer concentration carry most of the cash risk, and neither is visible on a standard P&L.
Southlake, Colleyville & Grapevine
Professional services, medical practices and second-generation family businesses. Succession and exit readiness come up here more than anywhere else in Tarrant County, and both are years of work rather than a transaction.
Keller, Roanoke & Haslet
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.
Arlington & Mansfield
Manufacturing, distribution and a deep base of established local operators. Frequently first-time CFO engagements, where the immediate need is a close that closes on time and a 13-week cash view.
Burleson, Crowley & South Tarrant
Trades, transport and family-held industrial businesses. Equipment financing decisions and the cash timing around them drive more of the finance workload here than anything on the P&L.
Weatherford & Parker County
Agriculture-adjacent businesses, construction and rural-serving operators. Seasonality is real and predictable, which makes it forecastable — but only if the model is built around it rather than on a trailing average.
What we hear from Fort Worth owners
The Fort Worth operator profile, in one paragraph
Fort Worth operators skew industrial, energy-adjacent, and trade-services oriented — Alliance Airport, the Stockyards economy, and a heavy mix of mid-market manufacturing and contracting. The fractional CFO services hub conversation in Fort Worth often starts with cash-flow timing: long retainage cycles on commercial work, raw-material cost swings, and the working-capital math that nobody explained when the business was smaller.
The three questions we hear most from Fort Worth owners
My business looks profitable on paper but I never have cash — what am I missing?
Almost always the answer is in working capital: AR, retainage, WIP, and inventory tying up cash that the P&L is calling profit. The fix is a real 13-week cash forecast and a working-capital peg the owner actually believes in.
My commercial GC is asking for tighter financials before they release the next progress draw — what do they want to see?
Bonded jobs and large GCs want to see surety-quality financials: WIP schedules, completed-contract or percentage-of-completion that ties to the books, and a current ratio above their threshold. We build that package.
My raw material costs swung 15% in a quarter. How do I bid commercial work without giving away the margin?
Quarterly material-escalator language, bid-shelf-life dates, and explicit owner-acknowledgement of long-lead pricing in the SOW. Handshake terms is how 8% margins disappear.
Industry-Specific Fort Worth Pages
Led by Chris Gauvin and Taber Wetz. See the full about page or client results.
Also Serving Across DFW
What does a fractional CMO do for a Fort Worth business?
One person, senior, on the hook for marketing results. Not a vendor billing hours and not a junior hire learning on your budget. The work is positioning, offer design, channel selection, and killing what underperforms before it eats a year.
The engagement is led by our marketing partner and structured separately from the CFO work. Either side can run without the other. Run together, they end the oldest argument in the building, because spend and result finally share a page.
Fort Worth engagements skew toward businesses whose growth has been almost entirely referral-driven and who now need something repeatable, multi-location home services where cost per acquisition varies wildly by branch and nobody is looking, and industrial firms competing on relationships without a system for building new ones.
The details, current pricing included, are on the CMO engagement page. Or, if the finance side is where it hurts, start 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.
Fort Worth and Tarrant County — Common Questions
What fractional CFO services are available in Fort Worth, 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.
Are you actually in Fort Worth, or just in Dallas?
We are a Dallas-Fort Worth firm and Tarrant County is home ground rather than an expansion market. In-person is genuinely straightforward here rather than a logistics exercise. That said, 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.
What is the difference between an interim CFO and a fractional CFO in Fort Worth?
An interim CFO fills a full-time seat that has just emptied, usually for a defined stretch while you recruit. A fractional CFO is a permanent part-time seat — the same person, every month, indefinitely. Most enquiries that arrive asking for an interim actually want the second one, because the underlying problem is that the business cannot yet justify a full-time CFO rather than that someone has left.
Do you work with Fort Worth nonprofits?
Yes. Nonprofit finance carries requirements a commercial book does not — restricted versus unrestricted funds, grant reporting, functional expense allocation, and a board that has to read the statements without an accounting background. We treat that as its own specialism rather than as a variation on commercial reporting.
Do you serve Southlake, Keller, Arlington and Weatherford as well as Fort Worth proper?
Yes, on identical terms. There is no travel surcharge and no difference in access between a downtown Fort Worth client and one in Weatherford or Burleson. Tarrant County and the western Metroplex are served as one market.
Do you offer fractional CMO services in Fort Worth 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. Fort Worth businesses that have grown almost entirely on referral tend to reach us when that well runs dry and nothing repeatable was ever built.
How much does a fractional CFO cost in Fort Worth?
We price on scope rather than on location, so Fort Worth 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.
We are family-held and have never used an outside adviser. Is this a fit?
It is the most common starting point we see in Tarrant County, and the honest answer is that it depends on whether you want someone to own the numbers or to validate them. We sit in the leadership team rather than delivering a report from outside it. The first ninety days are usually unglamorous: a close you can trust, a 13-week cash view, and a short list of the decisions those two things change.
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