Andrejus Civilis (CPA, CMA), founder of Element CPA, is opening a few free 1:1 slots for founders.
Bring the finance question you want a straight answer on: runway, payroll, taxes, messy books, investor asks, or “are we doing this right?”
Element CPA is the outsourced finance department for VC-backed Canadian tech startups (Seed to Series C). We replace the fragmented “DIY finance stack” with one embedded team running a standardized, cloud-native system.
I built Element CPA so you can stop managing finance and start using it.
— Andrejus Civilis

What you can use the time for
Show up with the messy version of the question — we’ll turn it into the next right step.
-
- Runway + burn clarity (what’s real, what’s noise)
- Payroll + CRA compliance questions (before they become problems)
- Investor diligence / data room prep (what you need + how clean is clean)
- Reporting, budgeting, forecasting (what to track at your stage)
- Multi-entity / cross-border complexity (where founders get surprised)
- “What should we fix first?” diagnosis
What we do
Most startups end up with finance spread across too many tools and vendors. When founders want finance off their plate, nobody truly owns the outcome.
We come in as one embedded team and take ownership of the core ops:
-
- Bookkeeping + reconciliations (AR/AP support included)
- Managed payroll + CRA compliance
- GST/HST + corporate tax coordination (work papers, not filing)
- Controller-level reporting (cash flow, runway, budgeting, forecasting)
- Cloud accounting stack + integrations + workflow automation
Why founders usually reach out
-
- You’re growing, and the “good enough” system is starting to crack
- You don’t trust the numbers — or you can’t get them fast enough
- Investors are asking for reporting you can’t reliably produce
- Payroll/tax/compliance is becoming higher-stakes
- You’re tired of managing vendors and spreadsheets instead of the business
What this is (and isn’t)
Not a pitch. Not a pricing conversation unless you ask.
Just founder-to-founder time to get unstuck and leave with a clearer next step.
