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Consulting for small and mid-sized business owners · Vancouver Island, BC

Run and grow your business with clarity

Artur Podgornyi, founder of Clariva

“Tell me what’s worrying you, and we’ll answer it from your numbers.”

Artur Podgornyi · Founder · KPMG Deal Advisory

Financial models under every plan, built from your data Marketing measured in margin, not impressions Websites and local search that get you found Fixed scope and fixed price, from CA$490

One firm for every stage of the business

Three practices and the same people behind all of them. We come in at the stage you are at, and stay for the ones after it.

Business
“I'm starting or financing a business.”
  • ✓ Business plan for banks, CSBFP-ready
  • ✓ 5-year forecast & break-even
  • ✓ KPI dashboard
  • ✓ Delivered in 7–10 business days
Plan Check CA$490 · models from CA$1,490 · plans from CA$2,290
Growth
“I want more clients, and the right ones.”
  • ✓ Marketing, range, prices and clients, read together
  • ✓ Where the business is losing money, found and sized
  • ✓ What to fix first, ranked by what it is worth
  • ✓ A budgeted 90-day action plan
free First Look · Snapshot CA$790 · full audit CA$3,890
Studio
“So much has changed online. I don't want to fall behind.”
  • ✓ A site structure approved before design begins
  • ✓ Booking, payments, maps & analytics
  • ✓ Local SEO, GEO & Google Business Profile done properly
  • ✓ Site Care: updates & a monthly report
Digital Checkup CA$490 · sites CA$1,290–4,990 · Site Care CA$190/mo
Still here when the next question comes

The whole cycle, in four steps

First Look

Free. Send a link; one page back on how your business looks from outside.

Diagnostic

Plan Check or Digital Checkup: what to fix, in writing.

The Work

The plan and its model, the growth audit, or the site build.

Continuous Value

Kept current against your actuals, by people who already know the business.

The diagnostic is credited in full toward the work – in any of the three practices.

Free · 3 days

Step one is free, and it is the same door for all three. Send a link and nothing else. You get back the weak points we can see from outside, and what we would do about each one.

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Two ways in. Start where you actually are

Opening a businessMoney first, then a door for customers to walk through
Weeks 1–2 Plan + Live Model Financing approved, and the numbers you make monthly decisions on afterwards
Weeks 3–6 Site Build / Rebuild Traffic and bookings from opening day, on a channel you own outright
Next ≈12 months Then you trade Your own sales records build up. The audit needs twelve months of them to be honest, so there is nothing to buy here
Then, 30 days Growth Audit Which clients to chase, and what each of them is actually worth to you
Ongoing Growth Advisory The plan overseen as your team runs it, and read against its own targets every month
Already runningThe data exists – start by reading it
Days 1–3 First Look What a customer sees when they find you, before you spend a dollar
Within 7 days Growth Snapshot One question about the business, taken apart on your own numbers
Within 30 days Growth Audit More clients from the segments that pay, counted in margin rather than revenue
Weeks 5–8 Site Rebuild More of that traffic turning into bookings and payments instead of leaving
Ongoing Care The work stays current instead of quietly ageing out

You do not have to start at the beginning. Come in at whichever step answers the question you have right now – the rest of the path keeps until you need it.

Tell us your numbers once, and never assemble them again

Everything starts in your data
Whatever you order, week one is the same: your own revenue, your own clients, your own costs. No templates, no borrowed benchmarks.
Every recommendation is based on real figures
A forecast a bank can check, and a marketing plan with its acquisition cost attached. Both traceable back to the same numbers you gave us.
One intake, every deliverable
One set of answers serves all three practices, so ordering together costs less than ordering twice. See the bundles.

Two places where you can walk away with your money

One before we start, while neither of us knows what we'll find. One after delivery, once you do.

Step 01
Intake

Scope, assumptions and what you get, fixed in writing before anything is built.

Stop 01
The gate

Either side can stop here. You owe nothing beyond the diagnostic already delivered.

Step 02
The work

The model, the audit or the build – against the scope, with revision rounds included.

Step 03
Delivery

Everything handed over: files, accounts and the workbook behind the figures.

Stop 02
14 days

If it does not match what was agreed, say so and it is put right. Each practice page states what comes back if it cannot be.

We are not paid to produce a yes. The model says what your numbers say. If a lender still declines, that is an answer about the business rather than a fault in the work – and the plan that told you so before the bank did is the one that was worth buying.

If it will not pay you back, we do not recommend it

Nothing about the work is hidden. Two published cases follow in the format a client receives – the model, the segmentation, the assumptions we would have to defend. Only what identifies the client is removed.

Don't take our word for it. Read the work

Two anonymized demonstration cases. The same standard of work you receive.

Business Plan & Financial Model
Premium gelato café – made bankable

A first-time operator needed CSBFP financing. We built the loan-ready 5-year model and the full business plan behind the application.

Year-1 coverage vs the lender's floor
1.25× lender minimum 5.88×

High because the loan is small against the cash flow that services it – CA$70.9K of financing, not a leveraged buyout. Source: the audited 5-year integrated model behind the CSBFP application. The 1.25× covenant still holds with Year-1 revenue 21% below plan, labour and occupancy held fixed.

$70.9K
Financing structured
5.88×
Year-1 DSCR
Month 5
Cash-positive · line repaid by Month 7
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Growth Audit · Marketing Strategy
Chiropractic clinic – the least-used door was the most valuable

We segmented 843 clients by lifetime value, priced every entry point over three years, and found the clinic's most valuable client walking in through the door fewest clients used.

Lifetime value by entry point
Prenatal 20% of entries $2,245 Postpartum 28% of entries $1,602 Infant 52% of entries $862

Source: Clariva segmentation of 843 anonymized client records over 12 months – 4,028 visits – modelled to a 3-year horizon. Figures rescaled to protect confidentiality; ratios preserved.

843
Clients segmented
2.6×
Top entry point vs most common
+$15K
Floor-case 3-yr net
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Free tool

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Small by choice. Senior by default

Artur Podgornyi – founder of Clariva
Founder · Financial Practice
Artur Podgornyi

A decade of financial modelling behind corporate deals. Five years of it on staff in KPMG's Deal Advisory, and since then on contract, brought in on the transactions that need that level.

The same standard now goes into plans for small and mid-sized businesses. A lender's questions do not get easier because the amount is smaller – the discipline that clears a corporate credit committee is the discipline that clears yours.

M&A transactions worth over $5 billion. Before KPMG: Financial Controller at a global corporation, and a credit underwriter at a retail bank – the side of the table that says yes or no.

“I spent five years on the side of the table that says yes or no. That is the side I build your plan from.” – Artur

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Marketing Strategist · Growth Practice
Daria

Twelve years in marketing strategy, from local businesses to global brands including Microsoft – building growth systems that behave predictably.

The pattern she keeps meeting: businesses burn money on ads and agencies while the real profit leaks sit in pricing, positioning and the customer journey, where nobody is looking. An entrepreneur herself, she writes a growth plan with named targets and the numbers that measure whether they are being hit.

“Almost every business I audit is already paying for the answer somewhere in its own records.” – Daria

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Daria – marketing strategist, Clariva growth practice

Proudly Canadian, for Canadian owners.

Not sure which one you need?

Write to us in one sentence what's on your mind – a loan that has to go through, clients who stopped arriving, a website you would rather nobody saw. We'll tell you which of the three fits, or that none of them do yet.