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Are you acquiring capital within design, or off plan?

Compare what it is actually costing you to acquire capital against the target your fund's economics can absorb, and see whether your capital formation pace is ahead of, on, or behind your fundraising timeline.

Fund & Spend Inputs

Pull these from your approved acquisition budget, capital-raising plan, and CRM or finance records to date.

Capital & Budget
$

Total or remaining capital this fund is designed to raise.

$

The total budget approved to acquire this capital.

Actuals to Date
$
$

Media, fees, technology, data, content, events, and allocable labor spent so far.

Timeline

Capital Formation Snapshot

Live results based on the inputs to the left.

Cost of Acquiring Capital Status
Capital Formation Pace
Allowable CACa Target Approved budget ÷ capital target
Actual CACa Total investment ÷ capital acquired

Pace vs. Fundraising Timeline

Time-adjusted expected raise
Capital raised to date
This is a management snapshot, not an audit. It does not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, or compliance advice, and it does not assess the performance of the fund's underlying investments.
Under Target

Capital is being acquired at a lower cost than the approved model.

On Target

The Investor Acquisition Vehicle is broadly performing to design.

Over Target

Acquisition economics are deteriorating, or the original assumptions were unrealistic.

Indeterminate

Not enough capital acquired yet to measure. This is a meaningful finding on its own.

How the Math Works

Two ratios, one comparison

The target tells you what the fund's economics can absorb. The actual tells you what the system is really costing. The comparison tells you whether the two are still aligned.

Allowable CACa = Approved Acquisition Budget ÷ Capital Target
The cost-of-acquiring-capital ceiling the fund's economics were designed to absorb.
Actual CACa = Total Investor-Acquisition Investment ÷ Capital Acquired
What it is really costing, today, to bring in each dollar of committed capital.
Time-Adjusted Expected Raise = Capital Target × (Months Elapsed ÷ Total Timeline)
What should have been raised by now if the fund were tracking evenly against its own timeline.
Capital Sourcing Partners

A snapshot tells you where you stand. An audit tells you why.

The AIAS Capital Formation Audit connects this snapshot to your full Acquisition Capital Stack, System Health, and Investor Pipeline Sufficiency, then builds the roadmap to close the gap.

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