Our focus is simple: stronger businesses, better decisions, and long-term value creation for founder-led businesses.
We empower founder-led businesses and SMEs to achieve sustainable growth, financial clarity, and successful exits. Through strategic business coaching, commercial consultancy, and embedded financial leadership — including fractional CFO, fractional finance director, and bookkeeping services — we bring structure to ambition, clarity to complexity, and confidence to decision-making.
To be the trusted strategic partner of choice for ambitious founders — helping them build financially strong, strategically focused, and exit-ready businesses that create lasting value for their owners, teams, and communities.
We provide integrated strategic and financial support tailored specifically to founder-led businesses and SMEs. Our services can operate independently or as a combined growth and value-creation framework.
Practical, commercially focused coaching designed to sharpen thinking, strengthen leadership, and drive accountability. We help founders move from reactive decision-making to proactive strategic leadership.
Hands-on strategic support to refine business models, optimise operations, improve margins, and create scalable growth structures. We bring external perspective and disciplined execution to accelerate progress.
We help founders prepare early and exit well. From value enhancement planning to due diligence readiness and transition strategy, we ensure businesses are built to attract premium valuations.
Senior-level financial leadership without the full-time cost. We provide strategic financial planning, forecasting, funding strategy, cash flow management, and board-level insight to support growth and stability.
Operational financial control and commercial oversight to strengthen performance, accountability, and governance. We translate numbers into actionable insight.
Accurate, disciplined financial foundations that underpin every strategic decision. Clean data, timely reporting, and reliable processes provide clarity and confidence.
Senior-level financial leadership without the full-time cost. We provide strategic financial planning, forecasting, funding strategy, cash flow management, and board-level insight to support growth and stability.
At Auctus Partners, we invest in founder-led businesses and SMEs with strong growth potential, capable leadership, and a clear ambition to build long-term value.
We are passionate about backing entrepreneurs who are building meaningful businesses and creating lasting impact within their industries, teams, and communities.
Our investment approach is built around partnership, long-term thinking, and sustainable growth. We understand the realities of entrepreneurship because we have built and grown businesses ourselves — and we know that access to the right investment at the right stage can transform a company’s trajectory.
Strong businesses are built on strong financial foundations. We provide accurate reporting, meaningful insights, and disciplined financial management that give you complete visibility over performance, cash flow, and profitability. With the right numbers in place, better decisions follow.
We provide accurate reporting, meaningful insights, and disciplined financial management that give you complete visibility over performance, cash flow, and profitability. With the right numbers in place, better decisions follow.
We work alongside founders to define clear strategic direction, align leadership, and implement scalable systems that support sustainable expansion.
Whether your goal is scale, succession, acquisition, or sale, we help you build a business that is valuable, transferable, and attractive to buyers or investors.
We help founders transition from operator to strategic leader, creating stronger teams, clearer decision-making structures, and a business that performs without constant firefighting.
With years of experience, see what our clients have to say about us.
Clients
Years of Experience
Their support has gone far beyond traditional accounting and financial guidance — they have provided invaluable business coaching, strategic consultancy, and clarity around the direction of our business.
Auctus worked closely with us to design an entirely new business strategy, helping challenge and validate the assumptions underpinning our budget and forecast for the new financial year. They also implemented a detailed 13-week rolling cashflow forecast, which has given us real-time visibility and confidence around our financial position and future planning.
This level of structure and insight has been transformational for our business. We now have clear, measurable data to track performance against plan, enabling us to make informed decisions about where we spend our time, energy, and focus to achieve our goals. The clarity this has created has significantly increased our confidence in the decisions we are making and the direction we are heading.
The monthly performance meetings have also been a huge benefit. They have kept us accountable, on track, and focused on the numbers that truly matter. Lawrence and Claire provide practical financial reporting, guidance, and interpretation that helps us understand what the information means and, more importantly, what actions we need to take as a result.
Their knowledge, support, and hands-on approach have been invaluable. Nothing is ever too much trouble, and they are always available to provide advice and guidance when needed. We would highly recommend Auctus Partners to any business looking for strategic support, financial clarity, and genuine business partnership.
I’m pleased to share my experience working with Auctus as a fractional CFO partner.
From the outset, the quality of reporting has been exceptional; clear, insightful, collaborative, and meaningful to support decision-making.
Auctus consistently delivers with pace, without compromising accuracy or depth.
Beyond the numbers, the team brings a strong strategic lens, translating financial data into practical insights and recommendations that actively help move the business forward. It’s not just reporting it is guidance you can act on with confidence.
Equally important to me is their professional yet conversational approach. They have a way of making complex financial matters feel accessible and manageable, which puts you at ease and builds real trust.
I would highly recommend Auctus to any business looking for a CFO partner who combines rigour, insight, and a genuinely collaborative style.
See our various examples of how we have helped our partners take their businesses to the next level. From intricate planning to resolving complex challenges, we are equipped to give you the help you need.
Get to the know the friendly faces behind Auctus and who will be a part of your business journey.
Lawrence Eadie works with SME and founder-led businesses to bring clarity, structure, and momentum to growth. Through practical coaching and hands-on business consultancy, he helps business owners move from firefighting day-to-day challenges to leading with confidence and strategic intent.
Having started and grown businesses himself, Lawrence understands first-hand the pressures that come with scaling — from cashflow and capability challenges to leadership stretch and strategic decision-making. His advice is grounded in real entrepreneurial experience, not theory.
In addition to building and growing companies, Lawrence has extensive board-level experience, including serving as a board director and Chairman. This gives him a strong governance perspective and the ability to help founders balance ambition with accountability, risk management, and long-term value creation.
Lawrence’s approach is commercially focused, direct, and tailored to each business. Whether supporting leadership development, strengthening people strategy, improving operational performance, or preparing for investment or exit, he acts as a trusted advisor and strategic sounding board. His focus is simple: helping ambitious founders build stronger teams, smarter systems, and more resilient, profitable organisations.
Claire Eadie leads the firm’s Accounting Services, delivering comprehensive, reliable, and commercially focused financial support to founder-led businesses and SMEs across the UK.
With over 10 years’ experience in accountancy and finance, Claire brings both technical expertise and senior-level commercial insight. As a Chartered Accountant, she has extensive experience in financial reporting, statutory accounts preparation, management accounts, VAT, payroll, and regulatory compliance — ensuring clients’ financial foundations are robust, accurate, and aligned with UK reporting standards.
Claire has significant boardroom experience, supporting senior leadership teams with high-level financial insight and strategic planning. She has led and developed accounting teams, implemented scalable finance structures, and successfully managed offshoring models to improve efficiency while maintaining quality and control.
In addition to core accounting services, Claire works closely with business owners to develop structured budgets, financial forecasts, and detailed cashflow projections — providing forward-looking visibility that strengthens planning, stability, and strategic decision-making.
Her approach combines technical precision with operational leadership and commercial awareness. Known for her calm, dependable style and strong organisational capability, Claire gives business owners confidence that their financial reporting, planning, and financial operations are professionally managed and strategically aligned.
Her focus is simple: accurate numbers, disciplined processes, and financial clarity that supports confident growth.
Think we are the best fit for your business? Or perhaps would like to learn more about Auctus and whether we can help? Get in touch with our team.