Days to close
Calendar days from period end to a close the leadership team can act on. The target is single digits, achieved by removing reconciliation from the critical path.
Proof
Measured by results.
F3 Insights measures engagements in the client's own numbers rather than consulting artifacts: days to month-end close, forecast error, cash visibility horizon, pipeline reconciled to the P&L, and margin recovered. The results below are anonymized outcomes from engagements with $10M–$70M companies.
What we measure
The Metrics an Engagement Moves
Every engagement names its KPIs during the diagnostic and tracks them through transfer. These are the measures that recur.
Forecast error
Measured variance between forecast and actual, tracked over time. The first win is usually knowing the error at all.
Cash visibility horizon
How many weeks forward the company can see its cash position with confidence. A rolling thirteen-week view, maintained weekly.
Pipeline reconciled to P&L
Whether the revenue number in the CRM and the revenue number in the accounts describe the same reality.
Margin recovered
Gross margin points located and recovered by decomposing mix, price, freight, scrap, labour, and rework against reconciled data.
Client team running it
The tell that distinguishes this from a consultancy or a deployment firm: the system still runs after the engagement ends.
Outcomes
Anonymized Client Results
Each entry states the company profile, the metric, and the movement. Client names are withheld by agreement.
This page is staged and awaiting real anonymized figures. Nothing here describes an actual client engagement, and the placeholders are deliberately visible so they cannot be mistaken for evidence.
Next step
Ask what the numbers looked like.
Anonymized detail on comparable engagements is available in conversation, including the diagnostic findings that preceded them and what the client's team runs today.