We’re Le Chéile.
Strategic Finance & Fractional CFO Support for Creative Agencies
Le Chéile is a strategic finance and fractional CFO consultancy built specifically for creative agencies — design studios, branding agencies, PR firms, digital and marketing agencies — typically operating between $500K–$3M+ in annual revenue.
We help agency founders move from reactive decision-making to clear, confident, profitable growth.
Our work sits at the intersection of financial strategy, operational clarity, and founder sustainability. We don’t just track numbers — we translate them into decisions. Through our process, you’ll reclaim the agency to prioritize projects that make you come alive. As we take finances off your plate, you can embrace your role as the CEO and delegate so you can focus on the big picture. You’ll have strategic and operational support in making effective business decisions.
What We Specialize In
Le Chéile works exclusively with creative and service-based agencies that have outgrown DIY finance and need strategic support without hiring a full-time CFO.
Our core areas of expertise include:
Fractional CFO leadership for creative agencies
Agency profitability and margin optimization
Cash flow forecasting and scenario planning
Pricing, scoping, and retainer model strategy
Payroll and capacity planning
Founder compensation and owner pay strategy
Financial systems design (P&L structure, dashboards, forecasts)
Our clients are often experiencing:
Inconsistent cash flow despite strong revenue
Overextended teams and compressed margins
Founder burnout or underpayment
Unclear financial decision-making at the leadership level
Who Le Chéile Is For
Le Chéile is for agency founders and leadership teams who:
Run agencies with small but growing teams (5–25+ employees)
Have crossed $500K in revenue and are scaling toward their next million
Want profitable growth — not just more clients
Value clarity, structure, and long-term sustainability
Are tired of guessing when making hiring, pricing, or growth decisions
We frequently support women-led, BIPOC-led, and LGBTQ+-led agencies, and work with founders who want a business that supports both ambition and life.
How We Work
Le Chéile offers a tiered, strategic approach to financial leadership:
Fractional CFO engagements
Strategic finance sprints
Ongoing bookkeeping + controller oversight
Custom-built financial models and forecasts
Every engagement is grounded in a clear understanding of:
Your current financial reality
Your growth goals
The operational decisions required to bridge the gap
We don’t believe in generic advice or templated dashboards. Every model is custom-built to reflect how your agency actually operates.
Why Le Chéile Exists
Many creative agencies scale revenue faster than they scale financial clarity.
Le Chéile exists to close that gap.
Our role is to act as a strategic partner — helping founders understand the financial implications of their decisions before they feel the consequences.
The result: better margins, calmer leadership, healthier teams, and businesses that last.
your finance guru
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Why Le Chéile
Visualize Your Data
We craft a custom (but user-friendly) financial tool that allows you to visualize your business finances with clarity. You will be able to determine your rates, projected revenue, and other key metrics. This makes it quick and effective to visualize your data.
Team Management
We provide hands-on support in managing your sub-contractors and employees. From determining fair pay to navigating growth, we equip you with everything you need for a winning team.
Improve Payroll
Reward your team with raises, bonuses, and more. Our payroll techniques provide a clear sense of available resources, weighing items like projected income and client payment schedules.
Free Your Time
Our goal in working with clients is to create financial systems that liberate you from mundane tasks. We want you to return to doing what you love: running your company as you always intended.
Unearth your key offering tiers
Together, we will navigate potential new offerings you can provide clients, and which offerings are draining your business of energy and creativity.
Increase Profit
As you know, beyond making money, profitability is key. To increase profits, we will identify areas in your finances that will help your bottom line grow.
hey, I’m MEREDITH.
I am the fearless leader behind Le Chéile. From tactful financial and operational consulting with the nations largest health systems to founding and scaling my own agency, my knowledge and experience is expansive. I thrive working with creative entrepreneurs to grow their business mindfully and profitably by building lasting client relationships and identifying aligned clients and profitable offer niches.
But I cannot do it all alone.
Le Chéile’s team is thoughtfully designed to holistically support you as a creative entrepreneur. We instill confidence with data-backed tools and share insights and strategy through mindful consulting. We offer sliding-scale resources and strategic support to service-based solopreneurs and seasoned creative founders.
Similar to many, I fell into entrepreneurship by surprise. In 2019, I left my job to search for something that resonated and aligned with my values and started consulting with startups.
In that work, I discovered a significant gap in the market—a lack of bespoke strategic and financial support for creative businesses.
We primarily serve underserved founders — women, LGBTQ+, and BIPOC-owned businesses.
Beyond Le Chéile, I engage in speaking engagements, presentations, podcasts, mentorship, and more.
Outside of work, I love to play and travel. I have a Global Studies and Spanish degree from Gettysburg College and recently relocated back to my East Coast roots after nearly a decade in San Francisco.
45% Revenue Growth
2.7X Avg. Profit Increase
4.2X Quarterly Profit Increase
25+ Creative Agencies
1M+ Saved in Profit
93% of clients 2X profit
45% Revenue Growth 2.7X Avg. Profit Increase 4.2X Quarterly Profit Increase 25+ Creative Agencies 1M+ Saved in Profit 93% of clients 2X profit
FAQs. tl,dr.
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“Le Chéile.” (pronounced – “leh shay-il”).
It's a Gaelic phrase that has no English language equivalent, but the feeling is universal. Literally, it means “together”.
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We have several unique offerings we’ve perfected with our clients for proven success.
Le Chéile Founder, Meredith Fennessy Witts, leads the charge in all engagements. From [affordable] DIY visual reporting tools, interactive & custom financial tools, and hands-on strategic and financial consulting, we have something for all service-based businesses scaling toward or beyond 1M.
We also offer bookkeeping services and support one-off projects based on your specific needs. Simply get in touch, and we’ll navigate it together!
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We support all creative entrepreneurs but our specific niche is boutique creative agency founders.
Our retained consulting clients are most often minority founders and tend to make 450K-2M annually with a mix of 2-20 subcontractors and employees.
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Within the first month, we gather your data — revenue and expenses — and our bookkeeping team sifts through all the data. Then, we build a custom cash flow tool for your business which gives you visibility into your finances (because who consistently checks their Quickbooks?)
With your data at our fingertips, we develop a roadmap to reach your goals. We create a clear and actionable plan to scale sustainably by breaking down your operational and profit goals.
Once we’ve set a path within our first month, we take the steps together. Whether your goal is to scale your business, determine how much to pay your team, or determining rates that will bring you profit, we’ll create a data-backed system to get you there.
Our consulting engagements begin with six months but most often clients continue indefinitely.
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By the numbers, our clients have seen 427% quarterly profit growth, 257% profit margin increase, and 45% revenue growth.
93% of our consulting clients see a 2X in profit within our first six months together.
They’ve also gained the confidence to act as CEO, say no to projects for the sake of money, pay themselves fairly with profit-sharing systems and bonus structures, and start charging profitable and competitive rates.
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Glad you asked! Here is a quick tool walkthrough. We also have several DIY visual tools we’ve crafted specifically for creatives.
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We love new friends. The best way is to fill out our contact form or shoot us an email: hello@lecheile.co. You can schedule a call with our Founder, Meredith Fennessy Witts, via Calendly, too.