Executive Summary

SEC.01

The Directive

Founder suspected a meaningful variance between what the CRM said was booked and what the GL said had landed. Internal team didn't have the bandwidth — or the forensic tooling — to chase it.

Recovered Revenue
$300K
AR Leakage Found
$120K

Forensic Breakdown

SEC.02
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Phase 01 · Discovery

Mapped the data flow from HubSpot pipeline to QuickBooks GL. Surfaced a Sheets-based MRR tracker that was reconciled by hand and three places where deal economics silently diverged.

analytics

Phase 02 · Quantification

Pulled twelve months of contracts and invoices. Isolated the accounts where signed deals had never been billed, and the upgrades where prorations had been booked twice.

build

Phase 03 · Resolution

Rebuilt the reconciliation as a single source of truth. Cleared the AR backlog, restated revenue, brought AP/AR fully current within six weeks. Bookkeeper now operates on clean inputs.

FIG.01 · Data Architecture Scale: N/A
HubSpot
CRM_Source
Reconciliation Gap
QuickBooks
GL_Truth

Outcomes

SEC.03
01

Restated Revenue

$300K of overstated revenue caught before the next investor update.

02

Recovered AR

$120K of contracts that had been signed but never invoiced.

03

AP/AR Current

Backlog cleared inside six weeks. Bookkeeper handed clean inputs.

04

Single Source

CRM, billing, and GL now reconcile against one model.

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