Catalyst CFO Advisors provides CFO leadership from a team that's been in your shoes. Backed by a deep corporate finance background, 25 years on Wall Street and three AI-backed ventures, our founder, Brian Kostka, brings you rich experience from inside the trenches and proprietary advice that helps you scale, grow and optimize your business.
Get startedGrowing a business means facing challenges you’ve never encountered: raising capital, scaling operations, surviving downturns, and making strategic bets. That’s why Catalyst pairs you with a 4x entrepreneur who’s blitzscaled companies, raised millions in capital, and navigated everything from market crashes to cyber attacks.
You’re not getting generic advice—you’re getting personalized guidance from an executive who’s built, scaled, and exited businesses.
We leverage smart AI automation to save you time, money, and resources. Our differentiator is hands-on strategic leadership from someone who’s sat in your seat.
We don’t pontificate, we engage and help execute on clearly defined financial metrics and goals to help your business flourish.
Finance
Operations
Planning
Marketing
Research
Branding
Networking
Hiring
Strategy
Human Resources
Start-Ups & Entrepreneurs
We understand the journey of entrepreneurship can feel overwhelming, leaving you with little room to nurture your innovative ideas. We step in with tailored support that streamlines administrative complexities, ensuring every foundation is solidly built, while you focus on your true passion.
We transform your vision into a successful reality, backed by our financial expertise and strategic guidance that empowers you to flourish without the burden of operations.
Established Busineses
At Catalyst, we ignite your financial journey with collaboration and creativity. Our expert team goes beyond traditional services, crafting personalized solutions that tackle your unique challenges head-on. Whether you’re launching a new venture or scaling an established business, we’re your trusted partner every step of the way. Our passion for your success drives us to unlock your company’s potential and help you achieve your goals with clarity and confidence.
Strategic Planning
Often times proper strategic planning gets overlooked during day-to-day operations but it remains one of the most important attributes of a successful business. We use the strategic planning process to set priorities, strengthen operations, and assess the organization’s direction and value. We help guide clients to focus on not only where they are going but also the actions needed to get there and how to measure success at each milestone in their journey.
Management Consulting
Management consulting should be a tool for all businesses, not just the ones with the largest checkbooks. The proper management consultant will help clients maximize their performance, optimize their business models and increase the value of the business. Clients will reduce costs, maximize profits, run their businesses more efficiently, improve accountability, increase scalability, and accelerate their speed to market.
Executive Coaching
Catalyst’s confidential, one-on-one coaching sessions are customized to each client’s specific needs, goals and backgrounds. We understand each client comes with unique strengths, vision, goals and challenges. We listen, ask questions and create individualized action plans for each client. We’ll then follow-up to increase accountability, action and engagement, all the while offering up decades of strategic experience and expertise to each client.
Outsourced Solutions
Catalyst provides timely, accurate and actionable bookkeeping, accounting, finance and operations roles as well as more advanced fractional CFO and COO roles. Catalyst allows business owners to focus more time and energy on their strengths and less time on low impact weaknesses and/or responsibilities.
Brian has helped shape my business process to operationalize the day to day finance work. I am a small business based on inventory and there is a lot of supplies, products, vendors and customers to track! Catalyst has developed costing models and tools for us to use on current product and help to plan future product development. Brian advises me on business strategy quarter by quarter and helps me stay on plan. If you are a solopreneur and finance is not your thing – hire Brian to lead that aspect of your business so you can do what you do best.