Raise Ready

The pitch is the easy part.

Everyone rehearses the pitch. Nobody rehearses what comes after it.

The hard part starts with 'send me the data room'. Someone opens it, looking for a reason to say no. We build yours with you, and read it that way first.

Join the waitlist See what you leave with

One weekend, or one to oneEvery number traced to its sourceWe take no equity

  • Start here: the reading guide
  • Company and legal
  • Accounts and the financial model
  • Cap table
  • Intellectual property
  • Commercial contracts
  • Team
  • The investor story
  • Log of investor questions

In short

Raise Ready is HAM Agency's preparation for an investment raise. It builds a founder's data room, financial model and investor story from the company's own records, traces every number to its source, and reads the pack the way an investor's adviser would, before any investor does. It runs as a weekend or one to one.

01Why it exists

Raises stall in the follow-up email.

The questions arrive and the answers aren't written down yet. Raise Ready is the work before that email, in a room where getting it wrong costs nothing.

02

What they check

They listen to the pitch. They believe the paperwork.

You say They open
Revenue is growing The accounts, and the model behind the forecast
The brand is protected The trade mark register, to see whether it says registered or pending
Customers are signed The contracts, and what they commit anyone to
The team is in place The employment agreements, and who owns the IP
It's an SEIS round The advance assurance, and whether the structure fits the rules

Ten questions tell you which of these would hold today.

Take the investor-ready scorecard

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What you leave with

Data room indexHow one reads
  1. 00Start here: the reading guideChecked
  2. 01Company and legalChecked
  3. 02Accounts and the financial modelChecked
  4. 03Cap tableChecked
  5. 04Intellectual propertyChecked
  6. 05Commercial contractsChecked
  7. 06TeamChecked
  8. 07The investor storyChecked
  9. 08Log of investor questionsOpen

This is the shape. The documents and the numbers are yours.

Not templates. Not advice. Yours, finished.

  1. An investor can find anything in it without asking you. Numbered, indexed, their questions logged at the back.

  2. It matches your accounts. It shows its working.

  3. A deck where the words and the numbers agree.

  4. Checked

    The check

    We read it the way their adviser will. If we can't prove a number, it comes out. Even your favourite.

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How it runs

You bring what you have. You leave knowing what they'll find.

  1. 01

    Send us everything

    The deck, the accounts, the forecasts, the contracts. Messy is fine.

  2. 02

    We find the gaps

    We read it the way an investor will. You get the list.

  3. 03

    We build it with you

    The data room, the model and the deck, out of your own records. You can answer for every number.

  4. 04

    We check every number

    Each one traced to its source. No source, no number.

  5. 05

    You raise

    Knowing what they'll find, because we found it first.

    Yours
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Two ways to do it

Same work. A weekend with other founders, or your own timetable.

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Who it's for

  • First-time founders, pre-seed or seed, SEIS and EIS included.
  • Founders who raised once, hated the scramble and won't do it that way twice.
  • Management teams getting a company ready for a round.
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What it won't do

  • It won't raise the money. That part is yours.
  • It won't promise investment. Nobody honestly can.
  • It won't invest in you or introduce you to investors.
  • It isn't investment, tax or legal advice. Your accountant and your solicitor confirm those.

Hear it from us first.

No date yet for the next weekend. One email when there is one.

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