The Real Grind

We deliver financial clarity to your growing business by lacing our boots and getting our hands dirty.

Joe Minich, CPA, and blue collar CFO

Blue collar business financial services

This is a different kind of consulting.

We work alongside you and your crew for a few days. We live it. Learn what makes you tick. We get our hands dirty. Know our way around a job site.

We can back up a trailer, like we back up our recommendations.

Level up your business

You found us because you are facing the things all growing business owners face. Cash pinches. People problems. The Plan. It’s always the Plan, that ineffable striving place. We get it.

And critically, you want to solve things, to move onward and upward. You just need that extra support to push the team to the next level.

You’ve built something real

Awesome job, boss.

Now, let’s make it better.

Boots on the ground, on the jobsite. You don’t need corporate lingo salads and one more software. You need a partner that gets what you’re building. That’s us.

The Real Grind Engagement Timeline

Phase 1: Planning

We get to know each other, get access to everything we need, and complete a Fix My Books Sprint, so we can hit the ground running.

Phase 2: Fieldwork

We pack our gear and come join the crew. Together, we dive deep, a week long sprint, working on your business as well as in your business. All of it.

Phase 3: Wrapup

We provide a detailed report of our findings and schedule a series of follow up calls to track your progression on takeaways, implementations, and goals.

Phase 4: Support

This is just the beginning. Most go on to become lifelong business partners via our ongoing CFO/Controller fractional services.

The result?

True insights into cash flow and profitability. Clean books. Smooth workflows. Authentic financial leadership. A more valuable and marketable business. A business partner for life. A plan. Confidence and comfort.

We’re Ridgeline Business Solutions.

We’re a Different Kind of Advisory Firm

We are your impactful business partners for sweaty startups in the blue collar trades.

We’re built on grit, good people, and going all in.

Why do we do this? Because we’ve tried the remote-only route — and it didn’t cut it. We couldn’t stand behind work we hadn’t seen in person.

Walking your job sites, riding along for estimates, mixing it up with your crews. That’s what ties it all together.

Your team lead? A CPA who’s also an Environmentral Services Contractor. Joe built Ridgeline after years running numbers for nonprofits and boots-on-the-ground operations for his own successful land management and tree care businesses.

The Real Grind is not for every business owner. It is immersive and intense, built for the blue chip operators that get it done consistently, and are ready to put in some work to take that next step.

We’re talking not just taxes and Quickbooks, but forward thinking financial leadership.

That’s enough about us for now. We would love to get to know you and learn what you’re all about.