The financial conversation, started earlier.
PartnerReady helps your founder clients surface equity, salary, dividend and runway tension before it shows up in the management accounts — or in a shareholder dispute.
PartnerReady does not provide tax, audit or financial advice. It is a structured founder-alignment diagnostic that surfaces the financial assumptions co-founders have never compared — so that when they sit down with you, the advisory conversation starts at structure, not at discovery.
The financial tensions founders avoid until they cannot
Most founder financial conflict is not caused by the numbers. It is caused by assumptions about the numbers that were never written down.
Salary expectations no one agreed
One founder assumes market salary from month one. The other assumes both will go unpaid until break-even. Neither has said it out loud.
Dividend assumptions
One founder views the company as a future dividend engine. The other views every euro as reinvestment fuel for a venture-scale exit.
Equity unaligned with contribution
Capital, time, IP and network contributions were never quantified. Equity was set on instinct and now feels wrong to at least one founder.
Runway pressure absorbed silently
One founder is comfortable on personal savings. The other is six weeks from financial stress. Neither has told the other.
Director loans, expenses and informal arrangements
Cash put in personally, expenses absorbed without reimbursement, equipment bought informally — and no agreed treatment for any of it.
Exit and valuation disagreement
Founders who have never discussed at what number they would be open to selling, and what would happen to capital, debt and earn-outs at that point.
How accountants use PartnerReady
We sit one step before your engagement. The diagnostic gives you a structured view of your client's founder dynamics before the first advisory meeting — so you spend your time on structure, not on excavation.
- Salary and dividend assumptions discovered live in advisory meetings
- Equity questions raised during cap-table or fundraising work
- Founder financial stress visible only in late tax filings
- Director loan and expense issues surface at year-end
- Founder financial assumptions documented before engagement
- Salary, dividend and runway expectations compared in writing
- Capital and IP contribution conversations already pressure-tested
- Cleaner first meeting, more strategic advisory output
- 1 · Refer the founders
Either before incorporation, before a fundraise, or before a structural change such as a new shareholder or director.
- 2 · Founders complete the diagnostic
Each founder answers the financial-alignment section independently. Divergences in salary, dividend and runway expectations are flagged automatically.
- 3 · Shared report
You receive the report directly from the founders. The financial-alignment section is summarised on a single page for quick advisory review.
- 4 · Better advisory conversation
You enter the meeting able to name the misalignment, not discover it. The conversation starts at structure.
Financial-alignment insights surfaced
The diagnostic is not a financial model. It is an alignment tool. Outputs are designed to be useful inputs to your advisory work.
Salary expectation gap
Where founders have materially different views on whether, when and how they should be paid by the company.
Dividend vs reinvestment
Where one founder views the company as a long-term income vehicle and another views it as a vehicle for capital appreciation.
Capital contribution clarity
Where personal cash, equipment and pre-incorporation expenditure has been put into the business with no agreed treatment.
Runway tolerance asymmetry
Where founders have very different personal financial situations and no shared view of how long they can each sustain unpaid or below-market work.
Exit horizon mismatch
Where founders have never compared their personal financial timelines and assumed they were aligned.
Equity-to-contribution ratio
Where time, capital, IP and network contributions are materially out of step with the agreed equity split.
Why advisors refer founders to PartnerReady
Strengthens the advisory relationship
Naming the structural conversation early positions you as a long-term advisor, not just a compliance provider.
Reduces year-end surprises
Director loans, expenses and informal arrangements surface earlier, in writing, not at filing time.
Improves fundraising readiness
Founders raising capital are far better prepared for diligence on cap-table, contributions and governance.
Reduces dispute exposure
Founder disputes routinely pull advisors into uncomfortable, time-consuming positions. Earlier alignment reduces that exposure.
A natural cross-referral with legal
PartnerReady-prepared founders are better clients for both your firm and any solicitor you co-refer with.
How accountancy and advisory firms partner with us
We work with Irish accountancy and advisory firms in a small number of structured ways.
Referral partnership
Named referral links so your firm is associated with the founder readiness conversation from the start.
Founder onboarding step
A pre-engagement intake step for new founder clients — particularly useful for firms onboarding pre-incorporation businesses.
Joint advisory packages
For firms building productised founder onboarding packages with legal partners, we offer a co-branded option on the roadmap.
Built to be referred with confidence.
Irish-specific by design
Built around the Companies Act 2014, Revenue practice, and how Irish founders actually structure early-stage companies — not a US template.
Reviewed by Irish solicitors
Question wording, scoring weights and risk thresholds reviewed by practising Irish corporate solicitors before release.
Deterministic scoring
No generative AI in the diagnostic engine. Each answer maps to documented weights — outputs are reproducible and auditable.
GDPR compliant
Hosted in the EU, encrypted in transit and at rest, no profiling, no third-party data sale, full export and deletion on request.
Stripe-secured payments
Lite Check is free. The Full Report is processed via Stripe with no card data stored on PartnerReady infrastructure.
Preparation, not advice
PartnerReady is explicitly not a regulated legal or financial service. We prepare founders for your conversation — we do not replace it.
Questions partner firms ask us
Is PartnerReady financial advice?+
No. PartnerReady does not provide tax, audit or financial advice and is not a regulated financial service. It is a founder-alignment diagnostic.
Will it replace our advisory work?+
The opposite. It is designed to make your advisory work more strategic by removing discovery overhead.
Can founders share the report directly with our firm?+
Yes. The report is owned by the founders and is designed to be shared with their professional advisors.
Is this useful for established companies?+
Yes — particularly before a fundraise, a new shareholder, a partner exit or any structural change.
How is the data handled?+
Hosted in the EU, encrypted in transit and at rest, fully GDPR-compliant, with no profiling or third-party data sale.
Is there a cost to founders?+
The Lite Check is free. The Full Report is a one-off €49 — comparable to a small fraction of a single hour of advisory time.
Founder financial misalignment is rarely about money. It is about conversations that never happened.
If you advise Irish founders, we would value a conversation about how a structured founder-alignment diagnostic could complement your advisory work.