Finance • Operations • AI
One partner for clean books, fundable grants, and less busywork
Up & Adam is a Columbus fractional finance-operations practice for small businesses and nonprofits. I bundle bookkeeping and CFO support, grant writing and compliance, and process automation into one relationship, so you stop hiring three vendors to solve one problem.
Led by Adam Adams-Grooms, who manages $15M+ in federal and state grants by day.
Three problems, one relationship
Most small organizations need a bookkeeper, a CFO, a grant writer, and someone to fix the manual work underneath all of it. Hiring four vendors is slow and expensive. I do all of it.
Finance Operations
Books you can actually run a business on.
- Bookkeeping oversight and reconciliation
- Monthly reporting and cash-flow forecasting
- Fractional CFO advisory and KPI dashboards
Grants
Funding, won and kept compliant.
- Readiness and funder research
- Full application packages, flat fee, never a percentage
- Post-award management and Uniform Guidance compliance
Automation & Systems
Less manual busywork, fewer errors.
- Workflow automation with Make, Power Automate, and Zapier
- Reporting and dashboard automation
- Tool selection and setup (QuickBooks, Airtable, and more)
Built for small businesses and nonprofits
If you run an owner-operated business that has outgrown its shoebox-and-spreadsheet bookkeeping, or a nonprofit juggling grant funding and the compliance that comes with it, you are who I built this for. You get enterprise-grade finance and grants experience at a scale that fits a small team.
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in federal and state grants under management
annual budget managed in a prior role
in financial operations and grants administration
Certified Research Administrator, plus an MPA
I am Adam Adams-Grooms. By day I manage more than $15M in federal and state grants at The Ohio State University. Up & Adam brings that same discipline to organizations that cannot justify a full-time finance team. More about me.
Not sure where to start?
Most clients begin with a Financial Operations Assessment: a flat-fee, two-week review of your books, cash flow, compliance, and the places automation would pay off. You keep the written roadmap whether or not we work together after that.
Start with an Assessment