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One raise, two ledgers.

Traditional Spend vs an AIAS-Governed Investor Acquisition Vehicle (IAV)

The industry-standard calculator prices your raise against a single number: cost to close. It stops there. An AIAS-governed Investor Acquisition Vehicle 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 under an AIAS-governed Investor Acquisition Vehicle ↓
The relationship, priced fully

The AIAS-Governed Investor Acquisition Vehicle (IAV)

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. Distinct from CACa, which divides total expense by capital committed.
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.
→
IAV 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 Cost-Per-Close vs an AIAS-Governed IAV

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.