For The Business
Imagine where you could take your business with these people around it.
Strategy, design, finance, admin, the lot — from people who have done it for years, for exactly the hours you need.
Fractional, Led From Here
Imagine a strategist on Monday, a bookkeeper on Tuesday, a designer on Wednesday — each the best you have ever worked with.
The best of the best, by the hour. Without a desk you were never going to fill.
And Education, Health, HR & People, Project Management and Home.
Nobody Here Writes A Brief
Before you write to a parent, you sit a short Atelier of your own: honest questions, one at a time, in your own words. What comes out is your Business Portrait, and every parent you write to reads it before they reply.
A Traditional Brief
Written once, posted everywhere, answered by anybody
We are seeking an experienced bookkeeper to manage accounts payable and receivable, reconcile bank feeds and prepare monthly reports.
Must be detail-oriented, proficient in Xero and able to work to tight deadlines. Immediate start.
Drawn In The Business Atelier
An example business, question by question
I get my Sunday nights back. Right now I do the books after close, and the café deserves a better version of me on a Monday.
That I will sort the receipts once summer quietens down. Summer has quietened down three times now.
The BAS goes in before the reminder email, not after it.
The shoebox of receipts under the counter is gone.
Xero, two bank feeds, about forty supplier bills a month and a BAS every quarter. Done means every month reconciled by the tenth.
Payroll stays with our accountant. You will never chase anybody for a timesheet.
Any hours you like, as long as the month is reconciled by the tenth. Nap time, school hours, late at night, all of it is fine.
The fortnight before each BAS, four times a year.
Our regulars. Some of them have had the same table since the day we opened.
Our systems. Receipts live in three places, and we know it.
Me, Mel, the owner. I usually reply the same evening.
You like a tidy ledger and a good coffee, and you would rather be trusted than managed.
Three Honest Answers
Whatever you agree with them — their rate, their terms. MotherLode HQ takes no commission on the work. You are paying for the skill.
You pay when you book. It is held until the work is done, and released the moment it is. Nobody chases anything, on either side.
No handbook, no onboarding week. They already run their own business — you are booking a professional.
The person already doing exactly this, found in a minute.