ABOUT SIXFIGURENOW™
Better Research. Better Intelligence. Better Growth Decisions.
SixFigureNow™ is a research and business-intelligence initiative
exploring how expertise-driven businesses grow, scale knowledge,
build stronger business models, and apply emerging technologies.
Our approach begins with one simple principle:
Research the problem before building the solution.
Why SixFigureNow™ Exists
Expertise-driven businesses often possess enormous amounts
of valuable knowledge.
The problem is that much of that knowledge remains trapped
inside conversations, client engagements, individual experts,
disconnected documents, and undocumented processes.
At the same time, business owners are surrounded by advice,
trends, technology, and increasingly powerful AI tools.
The difficult question isn’t:
“What can we build?”
It’s:
“What problem is valuable enough to solve?”
That’s where our research begins.
Research → Intelligence → Practical Growth
Research
Listen to practitioners, investigate real business problems,
and collect evidence before reaching conclusions.
Intelligence
Turn observations into patterns, questions, benchmarks,
frameworks, and decision-useful insights.
Practical Growth
Translate stronger intelligence into practical ways businesses
can improve how they acquire clients, deliver expertise,
create value, and scale.
What We Study
Our research is particularly interested in the intersection of:
- Client acquisition
- Business growth
- Expertise and intellectual capital
- Business model development
- Educational and authority assets
- Artificial intelligence
- Scalable knowledge systems
The common thread is simple:
How can expertise become more valuable, useful,
and scalable?
CURRENT RESEARCH INITIATIVE
The 2026 Fractional CFO Growth & AI Study™
Our current flagship research initiative examines how
Fractional CFO firms are building their businesses.
The study explores four primary areas:
- Client acquisition and pipeline predictability
- Growth and scalability
- Expertise and intellectual capital
- Practical applications of AI
We’re speaking directly with founders, owners, partners,
principals, and practice leaders to understand what they’re
actually experiencing.
Build From Evidence, Not Assumptions.
We believe valuable business assets should begin with
valuable business problems.
That means listening before prescribing.
Testing before declaring.
Measuring before benchmarking.
And understanding where value already exists before
trying to create something new.
Evidence → Pattern → Intelligence → Action
Our View of AI
AI is creating extraordinary new possibilities for
expertise-driven businesses.
But technology alone isn’t the opportunity.
The larger opportunity is applying technology to problems
that customers already consider important.
You don’t need to invent AI.
You need to become extraordinarily good at applying AI
to valuable problems.
That’s one of the ideas our research is designed to explore.
About the Founder
Bakari Masudi
Founder & Research Lead, SixFigureNow™
Bakari is building SixFigureNow™ around the intersection
of business research, intellectual capital, practical AI,
and expertise-driven growth.
His work focuses on identifying valuable business problems,
uncovering recurring patterns, and exploring how research
and expertise can be transformed into useful business assets.
He currently leads the 2026 Fractional CFO Growth & AI Study™.
Help Us Build Better Intelligence.
If you lead a Fractional CFO firm, your experience can
contribute to our current research.
Join us for a focused 20-minute research conversation.
20 minutes • No preparation • No sales presentation
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