What does a Ventures engagement actually cost?
A typical engagement is valued at $250,000 and up across 12 to 18 months. You begin at roughly $40,000 to $50,000, which covers the foundation build. The balance is earned by us only at performance milestones as your revenue grows. The exact structure is designed together in your Venture Thesis, before either side commits.
What counts as a performance milestone?
Revenue levels we agree on together, written into the engagement, and measured by the same AI Chief Revenue Officer dashboard both sides look at. No vibes, no invoices for effort. If the milestones are not crossed, the balance is not owed.
Who actually does the work?
One integrated team led by GrowthMastery: our senior creative bench for positioning and brand, our engineering bench for the AI-native operating system, our go-to-market team and AI CRO for the engine, and our leadership bench for you and your team. You get one plan and one accountable partner, not five firms to referee.
We are not past $1M yet. Should we still book?
Book the call anyway and we will tell you the truth. Ventures is built for proven businesses, and if you are earlier, the Growth Accelerator and the AICRO Membership exist precisely to get you here. Founders who start there routinely graduate into Ventures.
Do you take equity?
The standard structure is performance-based compensation tied to revenue milestones. In certain engagements there is room to structure part of the compensation as equity or options. That conversation happens in the Venture Thesis, case by case, and only if it serves you.
How fast does this move?
The Venture Thesis takes about two weeks. The foundation build runs the first 90 days. The engine and operating system compound from there across 12 to 18 months, with milestones marking the way. Rapid is the point: the bench builds in weeks what traditional teams deliver in quarters.
How much of my time, and my team’s time, does this take?
The beginning is the heaviest: the Revenue Diagnostic and the Venture Thesis are real working sessions with you, and the 90-day build needs decisions only you can make. From there the entire design goal is to shrink how much of the company runs through you. If working with us permanently added to your load, we would have built the opposite of what we promise.
Why not just hire a CMO or a head of growth?
Hire well and you get one excellent brain in one seat, at a full market salary, ramping for months, and still dependent on the agencies and developers around it. Ventures installs the whole spine at once: positioning, engine, operating system, and leadership, from a bench no single hire can match, paid mostly on performance. Founders who work with us often still make senior hires later. They hire better, because the machine those hires step into already works.