Tad Damato

About Tad Damato

Most growing businesses settle for a part-time bookkeeper or a patchwork of financial tools and hope for the best. We built something different — a full-stack finance partner that embeds with your team, automates your back office, and gives you institutional-grade strategic firepower.ScaleLab CFO was founded to solve a problem we kept seeing: businesses scaling fast but flying blind on their financials. Stuck between a bookkeeper who can\'t think strategically and a full-time CFO they can\'t afford. That gap is where bad decisions get made — and where growth stalls.We\'re a Finance-as-a-Service firm that gives founders and CEOs the financial infrastructure, strategic leadership, and operational clarity they need to scale — without the overhead of a full-time hire.We\'re not a traditional fractional CFO shop. We\'re a team of operators, financial strategists, and technologists backed by an advisory council with $5B+ in portfolio management and $1.3B+ in middle-market transaction experience.What makes us different:→ Operator-built: We\'ve sat in the CFO and COO seat, doubled revenue through COVID, led capital raises, and navigated exits. We understand the decisions founders actually face.→ Tech-enabled: We embed AI, automation, and proprietary frameworks into every engagement — cutting manual work, shortening time-to-insight, and creating capacity for higher-value decisions.→ Full-stack finance: From clean books and GAAP-compliant closes to KPI dashboards, cash flow modeling, pricing strategy, and transaction prep — we build financial systems that fuel growth, not just compliance.→ Advisor-backed: Our clients get the benefit of institutional-grade thinking from advisors in private equity, investment banking, and capital markets — without paying institutional prices.We work with growth-stage businesses across construction, real estate, professional services, and more DM me or book a discovery call from my Featured section.

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Scale Lab Cfo

   Dec 2024 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   ScaleLab CFO was founded to solve a problem I kept seeing: growing businesses stuck between a bookkeeper who can\'t think strategically and a full-time CFO they can\'t afford. We built a Finance-as-a-Service model that combines operator-led strategy, AI-powered workflows, and a team of specialists — backed by an advisory council with $5B+ in portfolio management experience. Today we serve growth-stage businesses across construction, real estate, professional services, and more.

Education

• Colorado State University

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA

  2009 — 2010

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics

  2006 — 2009

• Questrom School of Business, Boston University

  MBA