Fractional CFO Services in Seattle
Vessel Advisors serves Seattle operating companies between $5M and $70M with fractional CFO and Controller services. Aerospace supply chain, distribution and logistics, construction, professional services, and the operating-company mid-market behind the Puget Sound economy.
Puget Sound Coverage
Serving Seattle's operating-company mid-market.
Vessel Advisors serves operating companies across Seattle and the Puget Sound — manufacturers and aerospace suppliers, distributors and logistics operators, construction contractors, professional services firms, and the broader operating-company mid-market that gets less attention than the region's tech giants.
The Seattle story isn't only Amazon and Microsoft. The Puget Sound has a deep industrial and operating-company base — aerospace supply chain, maritime, distribution, construction, professional services — that's been quietly building real businesses for decades.
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The Market
The Puget Sound operating-company base gets overlooked in the tech narrative.
Seattle's tech economy gets the headlines, but the region has a long and deep industrial heritage — Boeing supply chain, maritime services, food distribution (Costco is from here), specialty manufacturing, construction, and the professional-services firms that support all of it. Operating companies in this band are often founder-led or family-owned, and they frequently come to the finance question once the business has scaled past what its original setup was built to handle.
What we see most:
- Aerospace supply chain manufacturers and contract producers serving the Boeing ecosystem and broader industrial customers.
- Distribution operators — industrial, food, consumer products — serving the Pacific Northwest and broader Western US.
- Construction contractors and trades businesses across commercial and residential markets.
- Professional services firms — engineering, IT services, consulting — with utilization-driven economics.
- Maritime and logistics operators tied to the Port of Seattle and the broader Pacific trade economy.
Industries
Where we work most in Seattle.
Manufacturing and aerospace supply
Aerospace suppliers, specialty manufacturers, and contract producers across the Puget Sound industrial base. Standard cost, gross margin visibility, customer concentration, and operational reporting are the recurring conversations.
Distribution and logistics
Distributors and 3PL operators serving the Pacific Northwest and Western US. Inventory accuracy, customer-level profitability, and asset utilization are baseline.
Construction and trades
Commercial contractors, residential builders, and the trades businesses behind sustained Puget Sound growth. WIP accounting, job-level profitability, and bonding capacity baseline.
Professional and technical services
Engineering, IT services, consulting, and architecture firms with utilization-based economics. Partner compensation modeling, project profitability, and the discipline to scale beyond the founders.
How we engage.
When It's Broken
Put out the fire.
Interim CFO & Controller. At the loss of a key employee. When things crash or break. We deploy interim professionals — repairing what's broken and keeping the system running while you decide what's next.
When You're Building & Exiting
Advise and serve.
CFO, Controller & Accounting Team. Right-sized financial leadership — and the team to execute. Embedded for the long run. The CFO Power Team™: right roles, right cost.
When You Don't Know What You Don't Know
Assessment services.
Financial Discovery Assessment™. A structured deep-dive that reveals where your finance function stands today — and what it needs to support where you're going.
Transaction Readiness Assessment™. Will the books and reporting tell the right story to a buyer or investor — and do the systems and processes support merger or acquisition activities?
Coverage
We cover Seattle and the Puget Sound.
We support Puget Sound operating companies through our team and bench — on-site time when it matters, virtual delivery when it doesn't.
Coverage area: Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, Everett, Redmond, Kirkland, and the broader Puget Sound region.
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Ready to Know Where Your Business Actually Stands?
Most engagements begins with a Financial Discovery Assessment™ — a structured diagnostic that reveals where your finance function stands today and what it needs to support where you're taking the business.