Most companies don't lack financial knowledge — they lack a partner who acts. Lineate embeds a working CFO in your business: deep specialty in government contracting, full fractional CFO leadership for growth companies and SMBs.
// SENIOR-LED DELIVERY. EVERY DELIVERABLE CPA-REVIEWED. CFO ON EVERY STRATEGY CALL.
The same operator, the same execution discipline — applied to two very different worlds.
DCAA compliance, indirect rates, proposal pricing, program finance. Built for $3M–$30M federal contractors by a principal with 15+ years in DoD aerospace finance and $5B+ in priced proposals.
Full fractional CFO leadership for companies from $2M–$50M: cash discipline, margin clarity, board-ready reporting, and finance operations that scale — without a $300K hire.
+ BOTH TRACKS INCLUDE THE PEOPLE, BENEFITS & SYSTEMS LAYER — BENEFITS DESIGN, HR COST STRATEGY, ERP IMPLEMENTATION →
Whether it's a federal contractor facing DCAA or a growth company outrunning its books — the tools and information already exist. What's missing is a senior operator who executes.
Indirect rates or product margins built years ago, quietly leaking on every invoice — but nobody wants to open that box mid-year.
Bids, hires, and expansion calls made without a model — won at numbers that can't carry the work, or lost for lack of a defensible case.
The close is late, the forecast lives in one person's head, and every audit, diligence request, or bank question is a fire drill.
Curated signals from the audit, pricing, and policy landscape — the items we're flagging for clients this quarter.
Free tools built from the same models we use in engagements — for contractors and commercial companies alike. No login. No gate.
Enter your labor and pools. Get your wrap rate, fully burdened cost, and margin at your bid rate — and find out if you're bidding underwater.
Fifteen questions mapped to SF1408 criteria. Score your accounting system's audit posture in five minutes — before DCAA scores it for you.
Model the loaded cost of a full-time CFO hire against a fractional engagement — with your numbers, not ours.
A discovery call is a working session, not a pitch. Bring your current indirect rates or an active pricing problem — you'll leave with at least one thing you can act on.
Book a discovery callBuilt for $3M–$30M federal contractors on 15+ years of DoD aerospace finance leadership. Every engagement runs on a proprietary library of GovCon-specific AI workflows — big-contractor rigor at small-contractor speed and cost.
Pricing strategy and cost volume development across FFP, cost-plus, and T&M — prime or sub — backed by $5B+ in led proposals.
Design, restructure, and defend your indirect rate pools. Provisional billing rates, incurred cost submissions, and accounting system readiness.
Program-level financial management drawn from $50M–$500M contract experience: EACs you can brief, cash forecasts you can trust.
Service Contract Act compliance, wage determination mapping, benefits design, and union negotiation support from someone who has sat at that table.
The same execution discipline — cash, margin, close, and strategy — for companies from $2M–$50M in revenue. If you've outgrown your bookkeeper but can't justify a $300K CFO hire, this practice is built for you.
13-week cash forecasting, scenario modeling, and working capital discipline — so growth decisions are made on numbers, not nerve.
Unit economics, product/service-line margin analysis, and pricing strategy. Most companies discover 20% of their revenue is subsidizing the rest — we find it.
A monthly close that lands by day 10, a KPI dashboard leadership actually reads, and financials clean enough for banks, investors, or diligence.
Financial modeling for expansion, hiring plans, debt raises, and exits — plus the operator who presents it to your board, bank, or buyer.
Strategy without delivery is a deck. Lineate runs a complete delivery stack — offshore-powered accounting operations under US CPA review, benefits and HR cost strategy, systems implementation, and GovCon contract administration. Every layer plugs into any engagement tier.
Full-charge bookkeeping, AP/AR, reconciliations, and close preparation — delivered by our managed accounting team and reviewed by a US CPA (dual-qualified CA India / CPA USA) before anything reaches you. GovCon client data is handled exclusively by US-based staff.
Design or redesign your benefits program with total-cost modeling — competitive enough to retain, priced so you know exactly what each hire costs, and (for contractors) mapped to SCA fringe obligations.
Labor cost strategy and HR compliance from the CFO seat: comp structures, union negotiation support, and the employment-cost decisions that determine whether growth is profitable.
Selection, implementation, and rescue of finance systems — from QuickBooks-to-ERP migrations to configuring the GovCon reports (JAMIS and peers) your team never turned on.
Dedicated contract administration for federal contractors: modifications, funding actions, deliverable tracking, subcontract administration, and closeouts — run by an experienced GovCon contracts manager, connected directly to your finance data.
// SCOPE NOTE: WE DESIGN, LEAD, AND DELIVER THE ABOVE. WE DO NOT PROCESS PAYROLL, RECRUIT, RUN EMPLOYEE RELATIONS CASEWORK, OR PERFORM ATTEST/AUDIT SERVICES — WE'LL HELP YOU CHOOSE THE RIGHT PROVIDERS FOR THOSE.
Three engagement levels, same rates across both practices: clear scope, clear rate, clear deliverables.
// MONTH-TO-MONTH AFTER 90-DAY INITIAL TERM. NO LONG-TERM LOCK-IN.
// ACCOUNTING OPERATIONS (BOOKKEEPING → CLOSE, CPA-REVIEWED) AVAILABLE STANDALONE OR WITH ANY TIER, FROM $1,500/MO. CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION & SYSTEMS PROJECTS QUOTED FIXED-FEE.
Focus is the point. If you're outside this profile, we'll tell you on the first call and point you somewhere better.
No login. No gate. If the output raises a question you can't answer alone — that's what the discovery call is for.
Disclaimer: This calculator is an educational estimate using a simplified single-pool model. Actual indirect rate structures vary by pool design, allocation bases, and contract terms. Outputs are not accounting, pricing, or legal advice and should not be used directly in a proposal or billing without review by a qualified professional. Verify against your approved provisional rates.
Fifteen yes/no questions mapped to the criteria DCAA evaluates in an SF1408 pre-award accounting system survey. Answer honestly — nobody sees this but you.
Disclaimer: This scorecard is a self-assessment for educational purposes. It approximates, but does not replicate, the SF1408 evaluation and does not predict any audit outcome. It is not audit, accounting, or legal advice. For an actual readiness determination, consult a qualified GovCon accounting professional.
Disclaimer: Illustrative comparison only. Salary and load assumptions vary by market and role scope. A fractional engagement is part-time by design and is not a like-for-like replacement for every full-time CFO responsibility.
Written from 15+ years inside DoD contractor finance — not by a content team. What actually happens in floor checks, rate reviews, and pricing rooms.
Lineate's principal brings 15+ years of DoD aerospace contractor finance leadership, including CFO-level responsibility: $5B+ in led proposal pricing across every major contract type, program finance from $50M to $500M, union negotiations, benefits programs built from scratch, and DCAA-audited accounting systems kept clean.
The delivery model is deliberately structured: a managed accounting team handles the operational volume; a dual-qualified controller (Chartered Accountant, India + CPA, USA) reviews and signs off on every close; a dedicated GovCon contracts manager runs contract administration; and the CFO leads every strategy decision. You get a full finance department's output at a fraction of its cost — with senior review on every deliverable, not just the pitch meeting.
Federal contractor data stays with US-based staff. We built the delivery model around GovCon data-handling obligations from day one — the offshore team serves commercial clients only. Ask us about this on the first call; the contractors who don't ask are the ones who get burned.
The AI layer compounds all of it: proprietary workflows for rate modeling, cost volume drafting, close automation, and compliance checking. Machines handle volume; seniors own judgment.
Lineate — from lineate: marked with lines. Rate structures, contract baselines, audit trails. We keep every line clean, defensible, and yours.
A discovery call is a working session, not a pitch. Bring your current indirect rates, a DCAA notice, or an active pricing problem — you'll leave with at least one thing you can act on, whether we work together or not.
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