Fixed fee per engagement. Half on kickoff, half on delivery, Stripe invoice. No retainers, no equity, no success fees on the round.
No hourly, no retainers, no scope creep. Half on kickoff, half on delivery. Stripe invoice.
You have a deck. You want a sharp second pair of eyes.
A slide-by-slide read of your current deck and the growth story behind it. You leave with a prioritized rebuild list and the two or three slides I'd rewrite first.
Your deck is close. The narrative and key slides need work.
We work together on your existing deck. Sharpen the narrative, rewrite the slides that aren't earning their place and add the ones the story still needs.
Real round. Partner meetings. Numbers under a microscope.
Hands-on iteration on your full deck. Every slide read closely, gaps filled, appendix and Q&A built around the questions a partner room will actually ask.
Not sure which fits? Send me a note. I'll tell you straight.
The three engagements above are for refining a deck you already have. If you genuinely have nothing yet, no draft, no narrative, no positioning, that's a different scope of work. Weeks of operator time, custom research, a full narrative and GTM build, every slide written and designed from scratch.
I take on a small number of these per year, by application only. If a refinement engagement isn't a fit because there's nothing yet to refine, tell me what you're raising and I'll let you know.
Apply for a ground-up buildEvery tier is priced against the hours it actually takes and the engagements I have to turn down to run it. Not a markup on a template.
A full read of the deck, the cover email, and one investor follow-up email, returned as a written memo within 72 hours. Priced as a true loss-leader: it covers my time at roughly half rate so the bar to start is low. About a third of audit clients come back for a deeper engagement; the other two-thirds get enough out of the memo to ship. Both outcomes are fine.
The audit, plus three live working sessions in your file, plus a rewrite of the four highest-leverage slides (usually problem, why-now, traction, ask) and the cover email. This is the modal engagement and the one I price closest to true cost. It maps to roughly two weeks of half-time work; I take two of these a month.
Refine, plus a full rewrite of the rest of the deck, a working financial-model read, partner-meeting Q&A prep, and async support through the first close. This is priced for founders who want one operator embedded for the duration of the raise — not the cheapest hour but the lowest total cost when you count slipped weeks.
Built from a blank page: research, narrative, slide design, and model architecture. I take two or three of these a year, by application. The price reflects the opportunity cost of saying no to three Refine engagements while it runs. If you genuinely have nothing yet, this is the only honest scope.
If something here is a deal-breaker, it's better to know now than on the contract.
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