All of our fees are deferred until after closing, but in order to get you ready for a capital raise we need a VERY good pitch deck, 3 year financial model, GTM, use of funds, various graphics produced, etc. which costs $15k with our various partners we use - again we make ZERO dollars on these. You own all of these upon completion.
Even if you have some of these, in 80% or more cases our partners need to rework them (it's not that they are bad, it's just there's a certain language investors speak and we want to be able to convey that directly.)
PS: Through the course of the raise in software and assistants - we will spend ~18k that we 'risk' - so we're not asking someone to risk, without ourselves doing the same not including all of our time. If we didn't believe in your raise, we would not do it.