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Founder, Scissortail Fractional

Tyler Dickson.
Fractional COO
and CFO.

Over a decade in corporate finance and operations. Owned and operated his own businesses. Now helps Oklahoma companies in the $1M to $20M range build the financial and operational infrastructure they actually need.

Based in Edmond. Every engagement led by Tyler, backed by a senior bench.

Location
Edmond, Oklahoma
Serving OKC, Tulsa, Norman, Broken Arrow, and statewide
Education
Oklahoma State University
Undergraduate
Graduate Degree
University of Central Oklahoma
MBA
Corporate Background
10+ Years
Oilfield services, manufacturing, construction lending, mortgage underwriting. Analyst to controller.
Business Ownership
Founded and operated
$4M in government subcontracts. 370 employees. $3.6M in 90 days.
Contact
(405) 509-3305
[email protected]
Corporate Career

A decade in
the real work.

OSU undergrad. UCO MBA. Then over a decade in corporate roles, mostly on the financial and accounting side of businesses that run physical operations.

Oilfield trucking and rig moving. Manufacturing. Saltwater disposal. Construction lending. Mortgage underwriting. Analyst to controller. The kinds of companies where the numbers aren't clean and the problems aren't theoretical.

Those years built the financial discipline, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, acquisitions, and cleaning up books most people wouldn't want to touch.

Early
Financial Analyst
Entry-level accounting and financial reporting in oilfield services. The work that teaches you how businesses actually run, not how they're supposed to.
Mid
Controller-Level Roles
Financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and operations across manufacturing, construction lending, and energy services. Multiple industries, multiple challenges.
2021
Founded First Company
Left corporate to build something. Government service subcontracts generating close to $4M in revenue. A staffing and management contract that grew to 370 employees across three east coast states and $3.6M in three months.
Now
Scissortail Fractional
Fractional COO and CFO services for Oklahoma businesses in the $1M to $20M range. The financial and operational infrastructure that lets businesses grow without chaos.
What Makes This Different

Both sides
of the table.

Most fractional advisors come from one of two places. A long corporate career, sharp on financial discipline, less familiar with the skin-in-the-game decisions that come with ownership. Or a serial entrepreneurship background, strong operator instincts, sometimes lighter on financial rigor.

Tyler has done both. Over a decade in corporate finance and operations. Then ownership and operation of businesses with real revenue, real employees, and real consequences when things went wrong.

That combination shows up in the work. The financial discipline of a corporate career applied to businesses where the owner's name is on the lease and the payroll.

Three daughters. Northwest Edmond. The same Oklahoma market the clients are in.

Typical Engagement

Oklahoma businesses in the $1M to $20M range. Founder-led companies, family businesses, and established operators that need senior financial and operational leadership without a full-time executive hire.

Industries include construction, manufacturing, oilfield services, healthcare, professional services, and distribution.

Tyler Dickson, founder of Scissortail Fractional, fractional CFO and COO serving Oklahoma businesses from Edmond

Tyler Dickson. Founder, Scissortail Fractional. Edmond, Oklahoma

Tyler Dickson with his family in northwest Edmond, Oklahoma

Northwest Edmond, the same market we serve

How the Work Gets Done

No frameworks.
No punch lists.
Just the work.

I've worked with a lot of consultants over the years. Most were sharp. Most came in with a predetermined framework and worked the framework regardless of what the business actually needed.

That's not how this works. Every business is different. The diagnosis comes before the prescription.

Start with the actual business

More can be learned from an honest conversation with the full team than from a rigid punch list and input from management alone. That means talking to the person who's been manually reconciling the same spreadsheet for three years because nobody ever asked why. The team knows what's wrong. Most of the time nobody has asked.

Senior people only

Tyler leads every engagement and stays in it. When the work calls for more hands, it goes to senior, credentialed professionals he trusts, never a junior associate working from a deliverable or a project manager coordinating from a distance. The same level of attention from day one to day three hundred.

Oklahoma-first

Based in northwest Edmond. Not flying in from a coast. The same market, the same economy, the same businesses. Oklahoma companies deserve the same caliber of financial and operational leadership as any major metro, and they shouldn't have to pay out-of-state overhead to get it.

Ownership mentality

Having owned and operated businesses changes how you look at financial decisions. When the margin analysis is attached to a payroll you personally signed, the numbers mean something different. That perspective comes into every client engagement.

Areas of Depth

Where the work
actually happens.

Financial Operations

Cash flow management, forecasting, budgeting, financial reporting, and the cleanup work that makes the numbers usable. Books built for decision-making, not just year-end compliance.

Operations and Process

How work actually moves through the business. Process design, systems documentation, team structure, and the operational infrastructure that scales without the owner in every decision.

Business Turnaround

Stabilizing businesses under financial pressure. Cash position, cost structure, lender relationships, and the path back to margin. Work that requires both speed and precision.

Exit and Succession Planning

Preparing the business financially and operationally for a transition, to a family member, a key employee, or an outside buyer. The preparation work that determines the outcome.

Industry Depth

Oilfield services, construction, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and professional services. Industries where the financial and operational challenges are specific and where generic advice falls short.

Growth Infrastructure

The financial modeling, operational systems, and organizational structure that let a business grow without chaos. Revenue model analysis, margin improvement, and the build-out that makes scale possible.

The Bench

Senior help,
when the work calls for it.

Tyler leads every engagement. When a project needs more hands or deeper accounting expertise, he brings in senior, credentialed professionals he has worked alongside and trusts. Never junior staff.

Jason Murray
Certified Public Accountant

Jason is a CPA and Tyler’s business partner, with over a decade of accounting and finance experience and a background that closely mirrors Tyler’s.

The two have worked side by side on government service contracts, multi-site staffing and management contracts for private entities, and engagements with venture-backed portfolio companies. The working relationship is already proven under real pressure.

On Scissortail engagements, Jason brings CPA-level accounting depth: clean books, reliable reporting, and numbers that hold up when a lender, auditor, or buyer looks closely.

The first conversation is just a conversation.

No pitch, no deck, no proposal before we have talked. A straight conversation about where the business is and whether this is the right fit.

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