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300 W Franklin St Apt 1104W
Richmond, VA 23220

Mon–Thu 9:30am–7pm · Fri to 1pm

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The third of the month, 11pm, a kitchen table, and one more spreadsheet that won’t add up.

That was the night I started Bellwether Ledger. I’d just watched a good owner rebuild the same report for the ninth month running, and I thought: nobody should have to do this by hand. So we don’t make people.

Call us: (517) 888-4069 How we work
Risograph illustration of a late-night kitchen table with a laptop, paper spreadsheets and a small brass bell

// 01 — where the name comes from

Why a sheep’s bell ended up on a data company.

A bellwether is the sheep that wears the bell. The flock listens for it, and it tells everyone where things are headed. When I first read that word, I thought of every owner I know who learns about a slow month three weeks after it happened.

I spent years inside other people’s numbers before I opened this shop. I saw the same pattern everywhere: the accounting tool knew one thing, the CRM knew another, the online store knew a third, and the owner was the only place they ever met. Usually at night, in a spreadsheet.

The “ledger” half is the rule we work by. Every figure on a dashboard has to trace back to a line somebody can point at. If we can’t show where a number came from, it doesn’t go on your screen.

We’re small on purpose. You’ll talk to the same two people on the first call, in the walkthrough, and on the quarterly refresh if you want one.

// 02 — the four house rules

Things we do on every job, written down so you can hold us to them.

  1. Read-only, always.

    We ask for view-only logins. We never post an entry, never edit a invoice, and never touch your bookkeeper’s work. If something looks off, we hand it to them with the line number.

  2. One fee, written first.

    You get a number on paper before we open a single login: $640 for an audit, $1,480 for a setup, $2,230 for a forecast. An hourly meter makes people hesitate to ask questions, and we want the Tuesday question.

  3. Everything lives in your accounts.

    The table, the dashboards, the model: all of it sits in accounts you own. If you never call us again, nothing stops working and nothing is held hostage.

  4. A glossary, in plain words.

    “Gross margin” and “runway” get a one-paragraph explanation written for your business, not a textbook. If you can’t explain a metric to your best employee, we haven’t finished.

// 03 — a typical Setup, calendar view

Two to three weeks from first login to the walkthrough.

Week 1 · Connect

Logins, then a forty-five-minute call.

You tell us the five numbers you check by gut and the one you’ve stopped trusting. We connect up to four sources and start tracing lines.

Week 2 · Build

One clean table, four dashboards.

We reconcile the table against your books, fix what disagrees, and build the screens. You see drafts midweek and tell us what to cut.

Week 3 · Hand off

The walkthrough you can replay.

Sixty minutes, recorded, with the glossary beside it. Final half of the fee is due here, and not before.

// 04 — before the first call

What to have on the desk when you ring.

  • The list of tools you pay for. Accounting, CRM, store, payments. Even the ones you barely open.
  • The report you rebuild every month. Screenshot it, photograph it, or describe it.
  • The number you trust least. That’s usually our first stop.
  • Your bookkeeper’s name. Optional, but we’d love to say hello.
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// 05 — come say hello

Call first. We pick up Monday to Thursday until 7pm.

03 · Visit

300 W Franklin St Apt 1104W
Richmond, VA 23220

Visits by appointment. Call first so we can clear the desk.

Map the walk to our door

Ring first, before month-end catches you flat-footed. That’s the whole job.

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