Insights
Notes on finance, governance, and building.
Working notes on the two fields the practice lives in, dental cost intelligence and board governance, plus the occasional piece on the fractional CFO question and on building software worth owning.
Building
Why We Hold the Patents
A founder note on building defensible IP inside a consulting firm.
Governance
When Software Should Augment the Board, Not Replace the Portal
Where assurance fits in the governance stack.
Governance
The Brief a Director Actually Needs
What belongs in a pre-meeting brief, and what is just noise.
Operations
The Hygiene Appointment That Loses Money
Why a cleaning priced at the regional average can sit below its true chair cost, and how to find it.
Operations
What a Fee Schedule Can't Tell You
The difference between price and loaded cost, in plain numbers.
Operations & cost intelligence
The Economics of a Dental Practice: What We Know, What We Could Know, and What Is Not Worth Measuring
What practices know, what they could know, and what is not worth measuring.
Governance
Governance Fails Quietly: Why Boards Suffer When Directors Get the Wrong Information at the Wrong Time
Why boards suffer when directors get the wrong information at the wrong time.
Fractional CFO
When Does a Company Actually Need a Fractional CFO?
The honest signals, from someone who is not trying to sell it.