InHand Information

Most consumer product businesses are built operationally. Almost none are built economically. The product works. The brand is real. The team is capable. But the financial system underneath was assembled rather than designed. Built incrementally as the business grew, never stepped back and thought about as a whole. The result is predictable. Revenue increases but the business feels tighter, not stronger. Cash becomes unpredictable in ways that don't connect to the P&L. Margins drift in directions no one can explain. Growth that should be creating value starts consuming it. This is not an accounting problem. It's an architecture problem. InHand designs the economic system of consumer product businesses at £10M to £40M revenue: how the business makes profit, moves cash, uses capital and behaves as it grows, understood at the level decisions actually get made. The engagement starts with the Economic Architecture Sprint. Fixed fee, fixed timeline. It produces a contribution margin model, cash conversion analysis, integrated financial model, and a complete Economic Architecture Blueprint. Tools leadership actually uses, not a report that gets filed. From there, CFO Core is the ongoing engagement: monthly governance, financial leadership, and the continuous work of keeping the economic system performing as the business scales. InHand is the specialist fractional CFO, outsourced FD and Economic Architecture partner for founder-led UK consumer product brands across food and drink, beauty and personal care, supplements, and home and lifestyle, spanning wholesale and D2C. Typically inventory-heavy, multi-channel, and growing faster than the finance function was designed to support. → inhand.co