Finance Advisory for Founders & Boards

Raising capital is
hard enough. Your
numbers shouldn't
be the reason it stalls.

Aeonic provides fixed-scope finance advisory for founders and boards — investor-ready models, board reporting, and cap table clarity, delivered by a former institutional finance executive who has built these exact deliverables through live raises. A defined price. A defined timeline. No open-ended retainer.

How Engagements Work
20+ yrs experience
Institutional finance, fundraising, and board work
  • Financial models built to survive institutional diligence
  • Board and investor reporting rebuilt for clarity
  • Cap table and term sheet review before you sign
  • Fixed price and timeline, agreed before work begins
  • No retainer required. No long onboarding process.
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The Problem

Founders run on conviction.
Investors run on diligence.

Most early and growth-stage companies reach a raise with a model that was never built to withstand real diligence, board materials assembled the night before the meeting, and no second opinion before a term sheet gets signed.

  • 01
    The model doesn't survive the first hard question

    Revenue assumptions aren't defensible, the cash/runway math doesn't tie out, and the first serious investor question exposes it — right when credibility matters most.

  • 02
    Board updates are assembled the night before

    The deck gets rebuilt from scratch every quarter, the KPIs shift definitions meeting to meeting, and the board spends the session asking for data instead of making decisions.

  • 03
    Term sheets get signed without a second set of eyes

    Dilution, liquidation preference stacking, and control terms are easy to underweight when you're negotiating your first or second raise without someone who's sat on the other side of the table.

  • 04
    Fractional CFO firms want a retainer before they've proven anything

    Most advisory firms ask for an open-ended monthly commitment up front. Founders early in a raise need a defined deliverable at a defined price — not a new fixed cost before they've seen the work.

How It Works

Three engagements. Each with
a fixed price and end date.

We do not run open-ended retainers. Every engagement has a defined scope, a fixed price, and a fixed timeline agreed before work begins — you know exactly what you're getting and exactly when it's done.

01 $1,500 – $3,500
Board Deck / Term Sheet / Cap Table Review

A few days. A second set of eyes.

Before your next board meeting or before you sign a term sheet, get a focused review from someone who has sat on the institutional side of these negotiations. Dilution math, liquidation stacking, control terms, and cap table completeness — checked before it matters.

  • Send the deck, cap table, or term sheet — review begins same week
  • Cap table check flags unsigned or missing documents (subscription agreements, option grants) for you to close out
  • Written notes plus a 30-minute walkthrough call
  • Financial and structural review only — not legal advice; findings go to you, and we flag items for your counsel to confirm
  • Total demand on your time: under an hour
02 $5K – $10K
Financial Model Build / Rebuild

1–2 weeks. A model that holds up.

A full three-statement model with scenario cases, built or rebuilt to survive real investor diligence — not a spreadsheet that falls apart under the first hard question. Delivered with a walkthrough so your team can own and update it going forward.

  • Bear / Base / Bull scenarios with clearly stated assumptions
  • Cash and runway math that ties out under scrutiny
  • Built in your own file — no proprietary lock-in
  • One round of revisions included
03 $8K – $15K
Fundraising Readiness Sprint

2–3 weeks. Ready for the room.

The full package before a raise: the model, the data room, and the board/investor narrative, brought to institutional standard together. Built for founders heading into diligence who need it done once, correctly, on a fixed timeline.

  • Financial model plus data room structure and checklist
  • Investor deck and narrative review
  • Anticipated investor Q&A prep session
  • Fixed price agreed up front — no hourly billing
04 $2K – $4K
Data Room Build

Days. Dump it in, we organize it.

Send everything into one folder — cap table, contracts, financials, employee agreements, IP documentation — and we return an organized, investor-ready data room with a full index, set up on a flat-rate platform (not enterprise infrastructure you don't need) under your name.

  • Structured to the taxonomy institutional investors expect to see
  • Gaps flagged — missing documents, unsigned agreements, incomplete sections
  • Set up on an affordable, founder-appropriate platform — you own the account
  • Files removed from our systems at close of engagement
Engagements

Where founders bring
us in — and why.

These are the most common reasons founders and boards reach out — each one a defined deliverable with a clear before-and-after, not an open-ended engagement.

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Fundraising Model Under Diligence

Today
The model was built quickly to have something to show investors. It doesn't hold together under real scrutiny — assumptions aren't defensible and the cash math has gaps.
After
A rebuilt three-statement model with scenario cases, defensible assumptions, and cash/runway math that ties out — ready to hand to an investor's finance team.
Delivered in 1–2 weeks
🗂

Board Reporting That Repeats Itself

Today
Every board deck is rebuilt from scratch. KPI definitions shift meeting to meeting. The board spends the session asking for data instead of making decisions.
After
A standing reporting template and KPI framework built once, so each quarter's update is a data refresh — not a rebuild.
One-time build, reused every quarter
📝

Term Sheet Before You Sign

Today
A term sheet lands and there's no one on your side of the table who's negotiated dilution, liquidation stacking, or control terms from the institutional side.
After
A focused review flags what matters before you sign — what's market, what's negotiable, and what should give you pause. A financial review, not legal advice — findings are flagged for your counsel to confirm.
Turnaround in days, not weeks
🧾

Data Room Before Diligence Starts

Today
Financials, cap table, contracts, and employee agreements are scattered across drives and email threads. Diligence stalls while the founder scrambles to assemble a data room mid-raise.
After
Dump everything into one folder — we organize it into an institutional-standard data room with a full index, on an affordable platform you own, gaps flagged.
Built before you need it, not during
Confidentiality

Your numbers stay
between us.

We understand that a fundraising model, a term sheet, or an unannounced round is not information to be handled casually. Every engagement is built around discretion from the first document you share to the last.

🔒

No conflicting engagements

We do not advise directly competing companies at the same time, and your business details, model, and terms are never referenced with any other client, past or present.

👁

You control what you share

Engagements work from documents you send directly — a model, a deck, a term sheet. We never request access to banking, cap table platforms, or accounting systems beyond what's needed for the specific deliverable.

🗂

Documents handled discreetly

Models, decks, and cap tables are worked on in your own files where possible, stored securely, and deleted from our systems at the close of the engagement unless you ask otherwise.

🚫

Nothing shared beyond the engagement

Your financials, terms, and strategy are used only to deliver what you've asked for — never referenced in future work, case studies, or conversations with other founders or investors.

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NDA before we start

A mutual non-disclosure agreement is executed before any substantive document is shared — before an engagement begins. Confidentiality is not a formality; it is the foundation of every engagement.

Fixed scope, fixed timeline

Every engagement has an agreed end date. Nothing expands beyond what was scoped without a separate conversation and a separate quote — no surprise hours, no scope creep.

We do not request access to your banking, cap table platform, or accounting systems. Every engagement runs from the documents you choose to share, under NDA, with a fixed scope agreed before we begin.

About

Built by someone who has sat
on your side of the table.

Aeonic was founded by a financial services executive with 20+ years across institutional securities finance, capital markets, and growth-stage company leadership — including direct experience building financial models, GTM plans, and investor materials for active fundraises.

This is not a generalist advisory firm learning finance on the job. It is a practice built by someone who has built these exact deliverables under real investor scrutiny, not just reviewed them from the outside.

Institutional securities finance — senior executive experience across global markets
Capital raising — direct, current experience building models and materials for institutional-led rounds
FINRA licensed — active Series 7, 63, and 24 registrations
Founder — built and launched a consumer technology application with active users
Growth-stage operator — hands-on leadership experience at an early-stage SaaS company through an active raise
Aeonic was built on a simple conviction: founders raising capital don't need another open-ended advisory retainer. They need a defined deliverable, done right, by someone who has actually built it under real investor scrutiny.

We take on a small number of engagements at any one time. Every engagement has a defined scope and a fixed end date — we don't take on more than we can deliver well, and we don't stretch a fixed-scope project into an open commitment.

Every client relationship begins with a conversation, not a proposal. If there is a fit, we move quickly. If there is not, we say so.

Start with a Conversation
Get Started

A conversation,
not a sales process.

Tell us a little about your company and where you are in the raise. If there is a fit, we will schedule a call and take it from there. If we are not the right match, we will say so directly.

1
Submit this form

Takes 3 minutes. Helps us understand whether there's a fit before we speak.

2
We respond within one business day

If there's a fit, we'll propose a 30-minute introductory call at your convenience.

3
Discovery Sprint or introductory call

If the introductory call confirms fit, we propose the Discovery Sprint. No obligation beyond that.

Start the conversation
Responded to within one business day.

Your information is kept strictly confidential. We execute a mutual NDA before any substantive discussion of your office's operations. We do not share or sell contact information.