About
A CPA who thinks owners deserve to understand their own numbers.
This page is the plain version: who Terry is, what the company does, and what it does not do.
Who Terry is
Terry Smith, in plain facts.
Terry Smith is a CPA and CITP — a certified public accountant who also holds the certification in information technology. He has been in the numbers since 1985. He works as a fractional CFO, which means he serves as a part-time finance chief for companies that don't need a full-time one. He is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor. He was raised in southern Indiana, he is based in Upstate South Carolina, and he founded Alinement Group LLC.
What the company is
A software and education company.
Alinement Group LLC builds four things, and each one does one job.
Alinement OS
The software: strategy, goals, KPIs, team pulse, meeting rhythm, cash flow, and an AI advisor in one place.
OS Mastery
The free course — 10 modules and 33 lessons that work like an owner's manual for the OS, no card required.
The Alinement Brief
One email a week on four themes: alignment, accountability, AI, and cash.
The Advisory workspace
One view for advisors across their client companies, built so they see summary numbers — never a client's raw data.
The boundary
What this company is not.
Alinement Group LLC is not a CPA firm. It provides no tax, accounting, audit, attest, or legal services — attest work means an accountant formally vouches for a company's financial statements, and that does not happen here. It is a separate company from Terry W Smith CPA LLC.
Everything on this site is education. It teaches you to read your own business. For decisions about your own situation, talk with your adviser.
Where to start
No pitch. Just read along for a while.
The best way to know if this is for you is to read a few issues of The Alinement Brief. If it sounds like someone you'd trust across the table, the rest of the house is here when you want it.
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