We Built This on Real Business Problems
Most finance consultancies talk theory. We started because we kept seeing the same patterns destroying otherwise solid businesses.
Back in 2019, three of us sat in a cafe in Sydney after watching another promising company collapse. Not from bad products or lazy teams—from cash flow mismanagement and growth planning that ignored basic financial reality.
That conversation turned into vorenthasiq. We're not here to sell you software or generic advice packages. We work with Australian businesses that need someone who actually understands the difference between revenue growth and sustainable profit.
How We Actually Work With Clients
You won't find us using templates or automated tools that spit out generic recommendations. Every business we take on starts with uncomfortable questions about where money actually moves in your operation.
We spend the first few weeks just watching—how your team makes decisions, where bottlenecks form, what assumptions drive your planning. Most consultants show up with solutions. We show up with questions.
The Australian market has specific challenges that international frameworks miss completely. Tax structure, supplier relationships, seasonal cash patterns—these details matter more than whatever growth model is trending on LinkedIn this month.
What Makes Our Approach Different
We built our methodology by studying why financial planning fails in real businesses. Turns out, most failures come from consultants who've never actually run operations themselves.
Operational Integration
Financial strategy that lives in spreadsheets is useless. We embed planning into your actual workflows—purchasing, hiring, inventory, everything that moves money daily.
Scenario Modeling
We build three versions of your next 18 months: realistic, challenging, and crisis. Most businesses only plan for growth and panic when markets shift.
Decision Frameworks
Instead of telling you what to do, we teach your team how to evaluate financial decisions independently. Our goal is making ourselves unnecessary.
The Work That Actually Matters
We've helped 47 businesses restructure their financial operations since 2020. Not all of them succeeded, but the ones that did share something in common—they were willing to change how decisions got made.
Our work focuses on three areas: cash flow architecture, growth capital strategy, and operational efficiency. Boring terms for critical work that determines whether your business survives the next economic shift.
What we don't do: audit services, tax preparation, or investment management. We're not accountants and we're not trying to be. Our expertise sits in the space between financial reporting and strategic execution.
Why Businesses Come to Us
Usually it's one of three triggers: they're growing faster than their cash allows, they're profitable on paper but constantly short on working capital, or they're planning expansion and need someone who's seen it go wrong before.
People Behind the Analysis
We're intentionally small. Big consulting firms scale by templating solutions. We stay effective by limiting how many clients we take on and actually understanding their businesses.
Lachlan Thorburn
Senior Financial Strategist
15 years operations finance, former CFO at two manufacturing companies
Lachlan spent a decade watching finance teams produce reports nobody used. He joined vorenthasiq in 2021 to build planning systems that operations teams actually follow. His background in manufacturing gives him an unusual perspective on cash conversion cycles and working capital—he knows what happens on factory floors, not just in spreadsheets.
See If We're a Match
We take on 8-10 new clients each year. If you're dealing with growth that's straining your financial operations or planning expansion that feels risky, get in touch. First conversation is about whether we can actually help—no sales pitch.
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