Office of the CFO
Finance leadership across the disciplines that define the function — from controllership to transactions.
- Lead the Function
- Run the Close
- Plan the Future
- Move the Cash
- Navigate the Deal
Three practices. Three engagement shapes.
PluggedIn covers finance, technology, and strategy as three connected practices. Whatever the question — a finance system that's hit its ceiling, a technology stack that needs to scale, a transition that has to land — practitioner teams move across the offices when the work crosses functions.
HOW THIS WORKS
Why the work crosses functions, and why the firm is built that way.
Most professional services questions sit at the intersection of finance and technology. A finance transformation rarely stays purely a finance project. A technology rollout almost always has financial implications. A strategic shift demands changes to both.
We built PluggedIn around that reality. Three offices share talent, methodology, and senior practitioners — but each office holds the depth required for serious work in its domain. When an engagement starts in one office and discovers it needs another, the handoff happens inside the firm. No second vendor to onboard, no scope-of-work negotiations across firms, no orphaned context.
This is what “embedded advisory” looks like in practice. Finance, technology, and strategy as one operating system, mobilized for your business as the engagement requires.
WHAT WE DO
The work, by office.
Office of the CIO
Technology that runs the business and AI that grows it.
- Build the Stack
- Secure the Business
- Run the Operation
- Ship the Product
- Adopt the AI
Strategy & Transformation
The work that changes the shape of the business.
- Set the Direction
- Steer the Transition
- Manage the Risk
- Transform the Operating Model
ENGAGEMENT MODELS
Three ways we work.
Every engagement at PluggedIn fits into one of three shapes. The right shape depends on what the work needs — not on what's easiest to sell.
Project Engagement
Defined scope, defined timeline, defined outcome. Productized where the work is repeatable, custom where it isn't. Best when the work is bounded and the deliverable is clear.
Fractional Leadership
Embedded alongside your team for the long arc. Scaling our involvement up and down as the business needs. Best when senior expertise needs to be present on an ongoing cadence but not at full-time scale.
Full Engagement
Operational ownership of a function or initiative, with a service-level commitment and a clear handback plan. Best when the business needs full operational coverage of a function, often temporarily.
Most of our engagements settle into one shape, then evolve. A Project Engagement sometimes becomes a Fractional Leadership arrangement. A Fractional Leadership arrangement sometimes graduates into a Full Engagement. We adjust as the work tells us to.
Not sure which office fits your situation?
Tell us where you are and what's stuck. We'll tell you within one conversation which office to start in — and whether the work crosses into others.
Or read about who we serve to find your audience track.