About

Finance built by a controller, for founders.

13 years turning financial complexity into clarity — building the systems, leading the teams, and telling the story behind the numbers for high-growth companies.

Our story

Why we exist.

Every growing business eventually hits the same wall. The bookkeeper who got them this far can't keep up. A full-time controller costs more than they can justify. And the financial data — the thing leadership most needs to make decisions — becomes the least reliable part of the business.

We built Ridgeline to fix that gap. We bring the structure, systems thinking, and close discipline of an in-house controller, delivered as a service. Our clients get books they can trust, operations that run without friction, and financials their leadership can actually use to make decisions.

Meet the founder

Emma Getty, MBA, CPA

Founder & Controller

Emma is a CPA with 13+ years of experience across high-growth companies. She has managed accounting across multiple entities, led more than a dozen external audits, and built the systems that let founders trust their numbers.

Before founding Ridgeline, Emma led the finance function at OneTogether Solutions, a mission-driven, multi-entity healthcare management firm. She has worked in Boulder for 9 years in consulting, CPG, and startups. She led Blue Moose through a period of 63% revenue growth, where she also redesigned the monthly close process to save 40 hours a month.

She brings deep fluency in NetSuite, QuickBooks, and Ramp, and pairs controller-level technical depth with a founder-focused approach.

Our approach

What makes us different.

Two clients at a time. That's it.

Depth, not volume.

Most fractional controllers juggle eight to ten clients at once. Ridgeline takes a maximum of two — which means your business gets real attention, fast response times, and a partner who actually knows your books.

We run the stack, so you don't have to.

Finance systems end-to-end: evaluate, implement, optimize, maintain.

You shouldn't need to become a QuickBooks admin or a NetSuite expert to run your business. The systems layer is ours to own — from selection through implementation through the monthly workflows that keep everything running quietly in the background.

Flat fees. No scope creep. No surprise invoices.

You know what finance costs before we start.

Traditional fractional engagements run on hourly billing, which means every conversation, every extra transaction, every month-end scramble becomes a line item. Ridgeline prices by outcome, not by hour — so the cost is predictable and the incentives are aligned with getting the work right.

Licensed CPA. Senior-led. Audit-ready by default.

The person selling the engagement is the person doing the work.

Most fractional services aren't staffed by licensed CPAs, and most regional firms hand off your books to junior staff once the contract is signed. At Ridgeline, you work directly with a CPA and MBA who has built and run finance functions from the inside — no handoffs, no rotating team, no learning on your books.

MBA · CPA
13+ years CPA experience
12+ external audits led
NetSuite · QuickBooks · Ramp

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