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One raise, two ledgers.

Traditional vs AIAS Performance

The industry-standard calculator prices your raise against a single number: cost to close. It stops there. Our methodology prices the same raise against the full relationship — the qualified pipeline behind every close, and the capital an investor contributes over years, not just at signing. Move the sliders once; both ledgers update together.

Your raise

Industry-Standard Fund Calculator

$13,000,000
Total capital you're looking to raise
$1M$100M
2.5%
% of the goal spent acquiring investors (avg. is 2.5%)
0.5%4%
10%
Share of calls that convert to a closed investor
1%100%
$125,000
Average check size per closed investor
$10K$1M
6 Months

How long you have to close the raise

The industry-standard model
Calculate your raise
cost-per-close
Ad spend (total)
$325,000
Investors needed
104
Calls needed
1,040
Cost per call KPI
$313
Ad spend / month
$54,167
Ad spend / day
$1,806/day
vs. Broker Fees% of funding goal
Broker fee 5%$650,000
Broker fee 6%$780,000
Broker fee 7%$910,000
Broker fee 8%$1,040,000
Broker fee 9%$1,170,000
Broker fee 10%$1,300,000

This model prices one thing: the dollars it takes to close your investors — nothing more. It has no way to price the relationships still in motion, the capital investors reinvest, or who they refer. No industry-standard calculator ever has.

See it priced in the AIAS Fund Performance Calculator ↓
The relationship, priced fully

The AIAS Fund Performance Calculator

40%
ICCR — % of qualified relationships that convert to a closed investor
1%100%
45
Average trust velocity per investor
1365
35%
Share of investors expected to commit again
0%100%
0.30
How often a retained investor introduces a new one — compounds with horizon
010 / yr
40%
Share of referrals that actually invest — at roughly your avg. check size
0%100%
5 years
Years over which lifetime value is projected
1 yr10 yrs
CSP methodology
Price the whole relationship
full pipeline
Qualified investors in pipeline
260
Closed investors ÷ ICCR — the qualified pool your closes were drawn from.
Investor acquisition cost IAC
$1,250
Ad spend ÷ qualified investors.
Capital efficiency ratio CER
40.00×
Funding goal ÷ ad spend — dollars raised per dollar deployed.
Referral value this horizon
$75,000
Expected referrals × avg. check size — grows the longer an investor stays retained.
Investor lifetime value ILV
$375,000
Initial check + expected future participation + referral value.
Time to funding ITF-FC
45 days
Average days, first contact to funded.
Lifetime capital generated per $1 spent
300.0×
(Qualified investors × ILV) ÷ ad spend — the return CER doesn't capture.
Cost of capital

CSP's before vs after referrals

Traditional
2.50%
Ad spend ÷ funding goal. What the standard calculator shows — no referral capital counted.
→
AIAS Effective, with referrals
1.56%
Same ad spend, divided across the larger total once referral capital is included.
Referrals add an estimated $7,800,000 in capital across your 104 closed investors — capital raised without spending another ad dollar. Total capital raised effectively grows from $13,000,000 to $20,800,000, so the same $325,000 in ad spend now buys capital at 1.56% instead of 2.50%.

Traditional-model formulas (ad spend, calls needed, cost per call, broker fee comparison) mirror the standard ad-spend raise calculator used across the industry. IAC, CER, ILV, and ITF-FC follow the definitions published at capitalsourcingpartners.com/learn/metrics. This tool is directional and educational — not investment, legal, or financial advice.

What the cost-per-close model misses

Traditional Performance vs CSP's Performance

Traditional counts
104
Investors the raise officially closed
→
CSP counts
260
Everyone who reached a real, qualified relationship
The raise report shows 104 investors. But 260 relationships reached qualified status to produce those closes — the other 156 are real relationships still in motion that a "closed" report doesn't mention.
Traditional values each investor at
$125,000
Just the initial check
→
CSP values each investor at
$375,000
Check + expected repeat capital + referrals (ILV)
A single-check view books each investor at $125,000 and stops. CSP's ILV adds expected repeat capital and referrals, bringing the same investor to $375,000 — $250,000 that the traditional view never counts, per investor.
Traditional cost per investor
$3,125
Ad spend ÷ closed investors only
→
CSP's IAC
$1,250
Ad spend ÷ the full qualified pipeline
Traditional math divides ad spend only by closes: $3,125 per investor. IAC divides the same spend across everyone who reached a real relationship: $1,250 — 60% lower, because the pipeline paying for that spend is larger than the close count alone.