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How QuickBooks ProAdvisors Can Expand Advisory Revenue with RunSmart
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May 8, 2026

How QuickBooks ProAdvisors Can Expand Advisory Revenue with RunSmart

How QuickBooks ProAdvisors Can Expand Advisory Revenue with RunSmart
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For many QuickBooks ProAdvisors, traditional compliance and bookkeeping work is becoming increasingly competitive and time-constrained. Clients are asking more forward-looking questions—about cash flow, growth, hiring, and long-term planning—yet delivering those answers consistently can be difficult to scale without adding significant manual effort.

RunSmart by Projection Genie was built to help ProAdvisors meet that demand.

Rather than replacing your expertise, RunSmart supports it—making it easier to offer structured, recurring advisory services that clients value and are willing to pay for.

Create New Advisory Revenue

RunSmart enables ProAdvisors to expand beyond historical reporting by offering structured financial planning, forecasting, and performance insights as part of an ongoing advisory service.

With RunSmart, you can deliver:

  • Forward-looking financial forecasts
  • Budgeting and ongoing performance monitoring
  • Clear, data-driven planning insights

These services can be packaged as monthly or quarterly advisory engagements and delivered consistently across clients—without building custom spreadsheets or financial models for each one.

The result is a scalable advisory revenue stream that strengthens client relationships and differentiates your practice.

Many advisors package this as a recurring monthly or quarterly advisory engagement alongside existing bookkeeping or CAS services.

Reclaim Time for Higher-Value Advisory Work

Advisory work should focus on interpretation and guidance—not manual calculations.

RunSmart handles the heavy lifting by automatically:

  • Assessing overall financial health
  • Generating clear, reliable forecasts
  • Tracking performance over time

By reducing manual work, RunSmart frees up your time so you can focus on higher-value, forward-looking conversations with your clients instead of maintaining custom spreadsheets.

Built on Reliable, Data-Driven Forecasting

RunSmart’s forecasts are generated directly from each client’s historical financial data in QuickBooks—not generic assumptions.

RunSmart uses advanced statistical modeling techniques to account for trends, seasonality, and natural variability in financial data. These techniques reflect approaches commonly used by FP&A teams at large enterprises, while remaining simple, clear, and explainable for advisory conversations. Forecasts update automatically as new results become available, supporting rolling forecasts that evolve over time rather than static, one-time projections.

The result is forecasting that is rigorous behind the scenes yet practical in client conversations—allowing ProAdvisors to ground planning discussions in realistic expectations and adjust course as conditions change.

Simplify Financial Insights for Clients

Clients don’t struggle because they lack reports—they struggle because they lack clarity.

RunSmart simplifies financial insights by surfacing what changed, why it matters, and where to focus next—turning complex financial data into clear, actionable guidance rather than just charts and graphs.

This helps clients quickly understand what matters most, making financial discussions more productive and reducing confusion around the numbers.

Enable Confident Client Decision-Making

When clients clearly understand where they stand today and where they’re headed, better decisions follow.

By grounding conversations in meaningful, data-driven insights, ProAdvisors can help clients:

  • Plan proactively
  • Adapt to changing conditions
  • Move forward with greater confidence

RunSmart provides a consistent, forward-looking foundation that supports these conversations while keeping you firmly in the role of trusted advisor.

Simplify Collaboration Across Clients and Stakeholders

Advisory work often involves multiple stakeholders—owners, partners, and internal teams.

RunSmart makes collaboration easier by:

  • Supporting shared access across clients and stakeholders
  • Enabling transparent, aligned discussions
  • Using role-based access so the right people see the right data

This keeps everyone aligned while maintaining appropriate visibility and control.

Built for Client Trust and Security

Trust is foundational in advisory relationships.

RunSmart allows you to manage multiple clients under a single master account with strict data separation between each client’s records. Sensitive information is encrypted in transit and at rest, with safeguards designed to protect confidentiality and prevent unauthorized access.

As an Intuit App Partner, Projection Genie has successfully completed QuickBooks’ strict technical and security reviews—giving ProAdvisors confidence that the platform meets Intuit’s standards for security and reliability.

Limited-Time Offer for QuickBooks ProAdvisors

To support ProAdvisors expanding their advisory services, we’re offering a limited-time incentive:

QuickBooks ProAdvisors receive 25% off the first year of any Annual Pro plan subscription.

At check out, use code: PROADVISOR25

Discount applies to the first annual term only. Offer expires March 31, 2026.

Supporting the Next Evolution of Advisory Services

RunSmart was built for advisors who want to deliver more value to their clients—without adding complexity, manual effort, or risk.

If you’re a ProAdvisor looking to:

  • Expand advisory revenue
  • Deliver clearer financial insights
  • Strengthen long-term client relationships

RunSmart provides the structure, scalability, and credibility to support that next step.

How do you compare against other financial planning & analysis (FP&A) software?

RunSmart is built specifically for small business owners who need a clear understanding of where their business stands today and how decisions will shape what comes next. While many FP&A platforms emphasize dashboards and complex configuration, RunSmart focuses on turning your QuickBooks data into practical financial intelligence you can act on.

It continuously analyzes historical performance, highlights meaningful financial shifts, and provides a clear view of your current financial health across profitability, cash flow, and growth. At the same time, it generates forward-looking forecasts that help you evaluate the financial impact of hiring, pricing changes, borrowing, or expansion before committing capital.

The result is a platform designed to help you understand your business today, plan confidently for tomorrow, and make informed decisions without the overhead of traditional enterprise tools.

Do I need a strong background in finance to use RunSmart?

Not at all. RunSmart is designed to be easy to use. We handle all calculations and generate forecasts automatically so you don’t have to. That said, to deliver reliable results, your books need to be clean, up to date, and properly categorized every month. If you’re unsure about your bookkeeping quality, we recommend working with a professional bookkeeper first to get things in order.

What makes RunSmart’s forecasts more reliable than other tools?

RunSmart’s forecasts are built to support real business decisions, not just generate projections. Instead of relying on simplified assumptions, RunSmart uses advanced statistical models that account for seasonality, long term trends, and volatility in your historical QuickBooks data.

By continuously analyzing performance patterns and financial shifts, RunSmart produces rolling forecasts that reflect how your business actually behaves. The result is forward looking projections you can confidently use to evaluate hiring, pricing, borrowing, and growth decisions.

My small business has been operational for less than 2 years; can I still use RunSmart?

To ensure reliable forecasts, we require a minimum of 2 consecutive years of historical financial data in your QuickBooks Online account to use RunSmart. Anything less than 2 years does not provide enough data to identify seasonal patterns or trends effectively.

Does RunSmart support consolidations or class tracking for budgeting?

No. RunSmart is intentionally designed for single-entity businesses and does not support consolidating multiple companies or budgeting by class.

In many small businesses, consolidating financial data or budgeting across multiple classes can make it harder to clearly identify where issues are developing. RunSmart focuses on analyzing each business independently so trends, risks, and performance changes are easier to detect and address.

These types of consolidation and class-level budgeting tools are typically designed for large finance teams managing complex corporate structures. RunSmart instead prioritizes clear forecasts, financial diagnostics, and decision insights that small business owners and advisors can quickly understand and act on—without the added complexity of enterprise finance features.

I don’t use QuickBooks Online for my small business. Can I still use RunSmart?

At this time, we currently only support an integration with QuickBooks Online.

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