Stop getting sent to training when what you needed was capital.
We investigate what may be making a decision-maker read your organization as not-yet-ready, name the corrections in priority order, and redline a bounded sample of the passages doing the most damage. This is a diagnostic, not a rebuild.
You submitted. You did the meeting. What came back was a referral to a cohort, a workshop, a readiness program.
Sometimes nobody tells you what specifically was in the way. They tell you to go get stronger — which is a strange thing to hear when you are already doing the work with less margin to spare.
Somewhere in what was submitted, something may have stopped a decision-maker short of confident. What that was is findable. It can be something other than the quality of the work.
- Organizations whose proposals may be signaling readiness questions when the real need is capital
- Anyone told they “lack capacity” without being told by whom, or measured against what
- Groups about to make a significant ask and unwilling to guess
- Anyone who got a no and never got a reason
- What in your current presentation may be creating hesitation, and for which type of decision-maker
- Where your numbers stop short of the argument they could be making
- What real capacity you have that is not visible anywhere in your materials
- What costs you are absorbing that a funder might have covered had they been shown
- Which of the things you have been told to fix appear to matter, and which are noise
- Whether the ask is sized correctly against what you run
Where the evidence does not support a conclusion, you get that too — named, not filled in.
- A direct account of what may be reading as unready, in plain language
- The fixes, ordered by what appears to change the decision most
- Corrected language for the places where the wording is doing damage
- The evidence you need to gather, named specifically
- What to say if someone asks you the hard version of the question
- A clear read on whether to proceed now or fix first
Examples of the kinds of things that surface. Yours will be your own.
- An organization describing itself by who it serves rather than what it produces
- A budget with no line for the founder's time, leaving the true cost of the work invisible
- A strong retention pattern buried inside a headcount, never surfaced, never counted
- Show Me What to Do™from $395The findings, the correction list, and sample redlines
- Build My Capital Case™from $1,500We build the corrected materials, not just name them
- Get Me Ready for the Room™from $2,500We prepare you for the specific decision and the specific people
Lower price means narrower scope, not lower rigor.
- Is this a readiness assessment?
- No. Assessments score you. This looks for what may be creating doubt and tells you how to address it.
- What if the answer is that we are not ready?
- Then you get that answer, with the reasons and the sequence to fix it. You will not be told the work is fine when the evidence says otherwise.
- We already did a capacity program. Is this the same thing?
- No. Capacity programs teach general practice. This looks at your organization.
Get Me Ready to Pursue the Money™ · From $395, scoped
What you leave with
A diagnostic of what may be reading as not-yet-ready in the materials you already have, plus bounded sample redlines on the passages doing the most damage.
Covers: One organization, one set of existing materials
The files you receive
- Written diagnostic, accessible PDF
- Priority-ordered correction list
- Sample redlines on up to three passages you choose
- A named list of the evidence you still need to gather
Format
Accessible PDF diagnostic plus redlined passages
Your work
- Send the materials a decision-maker actually saw
- Name the three passages you want redlined
- Make the corrections yourself, or buy the build separately
DSG's work
- Read the materials and name what may be creating hesitation, with reasons
- Order the corrections by what appears to change the decision most
- Redline the passages you named
Timing
Within 10 business days of complete intake
Human-reviewed work begins when intake is complete, not when payment clears. If anything needed is missing, we ask for it and the clock starts when it arrives.
Check this schedule against your deadline before you pay. If your deadline does not fit, tell us first — we would rather turn the work down than miss it.
Corrections
One factual-correction request within 7 calendar days
What this is not
- This is a diagnostic with sample redlines, not a rebuild of your materials
- No new materials are written
- No external research
- No promise of a grant or a different answer
Money back
Because this is human work performed to order, it is not refundable once the work has started. If you are unsure whether it fits, contact DSG before you pay and a person will tell you plainly.
DSG found things that may be creating hesitation. Several are fixable in your existing materials; several require evidence you do not currently hold. Build My Capital Case™ builds the corrected package and assembles the evidence behind it.
Not sure this is the one?
Start with Know the Room™. Tell us who you are approaching or what you are trying to get done, and we will point you at the right work.
Know the Room™ · $175The self-directed tools are finished work in their own right. Use one, keep the output, and stop there if that is what you needed.