Why Two Firms
Most Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Are Forced to Choose. You Should Not Have to Be.
Page Assurance manages your accounting and finance functions. fraction-ao places the AI-fluent talent who advances them. Same family. Same intake. Same outcomes. One integrated team replacing three.
The Three-Vendor Problem
Three Contracts. Three Logins. Zero Coordination.
Local CPA
Different priorities, different incentives.
Fractional CFO
Different priorities, different incentives.
AI / SaaS vendor
Different priorities, different incentives.
PA&A + fraction-ao replace all three with one accountable family.
Who Does What and When
A Clear Division of Labor
| Activity | PA&A leads | fraction places consultant for | Cadence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly close + reconciliations | Signs financials | AI matching deployment | Monthly |
| AP processing | Vendor mgmt, 1099 compliance | AI invoice + coding + payment optimization | Continuous |
| AR / collections | Process ownership | AI prioritization, dunning automation | Continuous |
| Tax planning + filing | Full ownership | AI sales/use tax analytics | Quarterly + annual |
| Audit support | Full ownership | AI workpapers and exception analytics | Annual |
| AI roadmap + tool selection | Compliance review | Full project leadership | Quarterly |
| Process automation projects | Control design | Deployment + tuning consultant | Project-based |
| Fraud monitoring | Forensic investigation | Continuous AI monitoring deployment | Continuous |
| Board-ready reporting | CPA-signed financials | AI dashboards + variance commentary | Monthly + ad hoc |
Why This Wins for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Six Outcomes Most Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Do Not Get From Any Single Vendor
Single Intake
One conversation. Both firms hear it together.
Audit-Defensible by Design
PA&A reviews and signs what fraction-ao deploys.
Your CPA Bill Goes Down
Automation takes over the manual work that drives audit hours.
Family-Owned Accountability
Pia and Jason answer the phone.
One Relationship, Two Specialties
Less management overhead. One vendor list.
Use One Firm or Both - Your Call
You do not have to engage both companies. Use Page Assurance & Advisory for your books, taxes, and audit, or use fraction-ao for placement only, or use both together. We do not bundle and we do not gate. Whichever path you start on, the other firm is there if your needs change.
Founders
Family-Owned. Built for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.
Jason Page
Founder, fraction-ao
Twenty-plus years in finance and accounting at the intersection of process, technology, and AI. Founded fraction-ao to give SMBs the AI-fluent talent that has historically been reserved for Fortune 500 finance teams.
Pia Page, CPA
Founder, Page Assurance & Advisory, PLLC
CPA with deep audit, attest, and advisory experience. Founded PA&A to deliver CPA-licensed oversight for SMBs without the Big Four overhead. Signs the financials that fraction-ao consultants help produce.
How Engagements Are Structured
How We Bill
fraction-ao bills hourly for the placed consultant's time. No project quotes, no phase fees, no retainers.
Page Assurance & Advisory bills hourly for most services and offers subscription tiers for ongoing accounting and tax advisory work. Client Accounting Services is always billed monthly based on the chosen Tier.
Fast Start
Consultants Can Begin as Soon as You Approve a Candidate
We do not bench talent and ask you to wait. Once you interview a candidate fraction-ao has scoped to your project and you say yes, the consultant can begin immediately. In some cases, that is the next day.
Where We Work
On-Site in Austin. Local-Sourced Elsewhere. Remote Anywhere.
fraction-ao maintains on-site capacity in Austin. For clients in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and elsewhere in Texas and the United States, we source local consultants who can work on-site with you, or we place remote consultants if you prefer. Local consultants for local clients, unless you are open to remote.
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