Parakeeto

Fractional CFO/COO combined to help boutique agencies & consulting firms measure and improve their profitability.

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You don't need to be present for every correction. You just need to give your team a clear enough bearing that they can hold course without you. YT link https://t.co/uEWUMJ8Xn6 #AgencyGrowth #AgencyProfitPodcast #AgencyOps #AgencyProfitability

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Operator: 80 hours a week. Manager: 100. Architect: 40. CEO: 20. The hours are supposed to drop. Most founders never believe it until they're already there. #AgencyGrowth #AgencyProfitPodcast #AgencyOps #AgencyProfitability

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A SaaS company knows exactly when money is coming in. An agency has retainers, milestone payments, T&M billing, and payment terms all at once. That complexity is why cash flow forecasting hits different for service businesses. YT link - https://t.co/mNaPknZKFI

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AI gave Colin a great competitive analysis in minutes. Then he still had to sit down and decide what to do about it. The bottleneck didn't go away. It just moved. YT link https://t.co/mNaPknZKFI #AI #FutureOfWork #Productivity

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A prompt and a few MCP connectors might get you a cash flow forecast. What it won't give you is trust, an audit trail, or the ability to collaborate on it. That's still where durable software lives! #AI #TechInnovation #FutureOfWork

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You can massage a P&L. You can do clever accounting on a balance sheet. But cash flow shows you exactly where a business actually stands. It's the first thing every business owner should be looking at. #AgencyGrowth #AgencyProfitPodcast #AgencyOps #AgencyProfitability

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Barrel Holdings lets each agency CEO set their own revenue target. Then they pressure-test it: how are you getting there, and does the margin structure actually support it? Ownership first, framework second. Full ep - https://t.co/tXfnJf8TtY

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AI speeds up delivery. But once every agency has the same tools, speed stops being the edge. Sei-Wook Kim thinks the only durable answer is specialization deep enough that it can't be replicated by a prompt. Full ep -https://t.co/tXfnJf8TtY

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Owner-operators under-invest because they need every dollar. Barrel Holdings plays a different game — longer time horizon, capital reinvested into the business, no pressure to extract. That gap compounds over time. YT Link: https://t.co/tXfnJf8TtY

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Sei-Wook Kim didn't plan to build a holding company. He spun off one agency to find a home for old clients, launched another to chase Webflow leads, and suddenly had three businesses. The strategy came after. Full episode drops tomorrow.

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The model was right. The plan was right. You still missed. That's not a failure — that's the starting point for the last piece of the system most agencies never actually build. YT link - https://t.co/9njayXWHpS

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Most agencies can't answer three basic questions: are we charging enough, how much of it is ours, and how long will this actually take. Without those, there's no real forecast. Just a guess. YT Link - https://t.co/9njayXWHpS

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Six months of time tracking data. A utilization rate sitting at 54%. And no way to know if that's a crisis or fine — because nobody built the model first. YT link - https://t.co/9njayXWHpS

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The most sophisticated dashboard in the room still couldn't move the needle on profitability. The problem wasn't the data. It was the order of operations. Full episode drops tomorrow. #AgencyProfitPodcast

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Most agency owners understand the M&A opportunity. What stops them isn't skill or capital — it's not being in a room where this is normal. Environment shapes belief more than information does. YT Link - https://t.co/uf78xJfCfn

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Most people call M&A risky without ever quantifying the risk. Peter's fix: list every concern as a "question to resolve" and work through them. Then ask what's actually on your calendar that adds $300K in profit this quarter. Full ep here- https://t.co/uf78xJfCfn

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Building $3M in free cash flow from scratch took 12 years. Buying it takes a fraction of that. Peter has done 21 transactions and says agency owners are better equipped for this than they think. YT Link here - https://t.co/uf78xJfCfn

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AI isn't coming — it's already here. Every agency owner is going to have to adapt. The question is whether that happens thoughtfully or as a fire drill. #AIDisruption #SmallBusiness #TechTrends

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Ask ten people whose job it is to own profitability in an agency. You'll get ten different answers. That ambiguity is the problem — and it's why the money side stays broken longer than it should. YT link - https://t.co/SxHBGduFHL #BusinessSolutions #ClientFocus

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Agencies didn't start their businesses to get rich. Profitability is just what unlocks the things they actually care about. Marcel's case for why that distinction changes everything. YT Link - https://t.co/SxHBGduFHL #SocialImpact #Entrepreneurship #BusinessForGood