Kite Agent is the AI from Ignite CFO Group that reads your P&L the way a salon CFO would. Upload it, and in about a minute you get a branded health check: your labor, retail, rent, and margin against our salon benchmarks, and the fixes worth the most money.
Health check
Sample salon, 2025 P&L
⬇ Your branded report, ready in about a minute
Ask a general AI how your salon is doing and it will compare you to a coffee shop. It doesn't know that labor in a commission salon should sit near 40%, that a gift card is a liability until it's redeemed, or that back bar hides inside a line called "Supplies."
Kite does, because we built it from the Salon CFO Playbook and the benchmarks we use with our own clients. It's named for what a kite does: stays connected to the ground while giving you the view from above. Kite stays tied to your real numbers and shows you the whole picture you can't see from behind the chair.
Total labor against a 40% healthy line and a 50% warning line, split into service labor and front desk so the number reads true.
Retail as a share of service revenue, against a 15 to 20% target, plus the product margin you keep on it.
Back-bar and product cost as a share of services. The quiet margin leak most salons never see.
What the space costs you as a share of income, and what that means for a lease renewal.
Net margin, and the things that make it look better than it is: gift cards booked as income, owner pay in the wrong place.
Lumped payroll or supplies lines that make every other number misleading, flagged with the fix from our Salon CFO Playbook.
Page one is your numbers against the benchmarks. Page two is the three fixes worth the most money, each with a next step. This sample is for a fictional salon; yours uses your own P&L.
Any format
A PDF, a QuickBooks export, or a photo of the printout. Nothing to install and no account to set up.
Ten seconds
We send a 6-digit code so your report goes to you and only you. One free health check per salon.
About a minute
Your numbers against our salon benchmarks, the fixes worth the most money, and a branded PDF to keep. Then ask a few follow-up questions.
Every salon gets one free health check. Subscribe when you want Kite watching your numbers every week.
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$0one per salon
Upload a P&L and see your salon the way a salon CFO would, with a report you keep whether or not you ever subscribe.
Your health check report
Kite Agent
$129per month
Connect QuickBooks and Kite keeps watch from your live numbers, so you never upload a P&L again. Ask it anything about your salon, any time.
A salon CFO in your pocket
Better together
$380per month
Kite Agent included
Our salon bookkeepers keep your books on a chart of accounts built for salons, and Kite sends them its categorization suggestions, so your numbers are clean and current.
Clean books and a CFO view of them
Running a bigger salon? For established, multi-chair and multi-location salons weighing a second location, a buyout, or financing, we take on a limited number of CFO Advisory clients each year.
No. Kite explains your numbers and reminds you about things like tip reporting and 1099s, framed as questions to take to your CPA. It never tells you how to file.
A profit and loss statement as a PDF, a QuickBooks or spreadsheet export, or a clear photo of a printout. Bank and POS exports work too.
It is used only for your health check. Kite only ever sees your own salon, and your files are never used to train AI models.
Not for the free check. Subscribers can connect QuickBooks Online so Kite works from live numbers instead of uploads. POS reports from Square, Vagaro, Boulevard, Phorest, or Meevo can be uploaded any time.
Kite does its math in code, not in its head, shows the figures it used, and tells you when it read them from a photo so you can double-check. It's an AI, so check anything you'll act on.
Ignite CFO Group, a fractional CFO firm that only works with salons. Kite is built from our Salon CFO Playbook and the benchmarks we use with our own clients.
Free salon health check
Upload your P&L and see what a salon CFO would see, in about a minute. Free, one per salon.