ACTIVE // DEVELOPMENT
Advisory // Services
Capital Architecture // Investment Readiness
- Investor-grade financial modeling derived from unit economics, sources and uses reconciliation, cash flow projections and liquidity timelines, baseline and downside scenarios, and comprehensive sensitivity analyses.
- Capital structure optimization across equity, debt, and incentive instruments, with careful consideration of seniority hierarchies, covenants, reserve allocations, security provisions, and receivable management.
- Waterfall modeling with precise recoupment sequencing, corridor mechanisms, carry and fee limitations, and audit-compliant annotations integrated with underlying financial projections.
- Risk assessment and due diligence frameworks encompassing delivery milestones, legal compliance, incentive structures, talent acquisition, foreign exchange exposures, and counterparty evaluations, supported by mitigation strategies such as bonding, escrow arrangements, step-in rights, and insurance protocols.
- Offering and investment committee preparation, including thesis memoranda, valuation methodologies, term comparison matrices, and supporting documentation for institutional review.
- Market positioning and exit strategy analysis via comparative datasets, revenue forecasting windows, profit and loss economics, breakeven thresholds, and downside protection metrics.
Production Operations // Delivery
- Comprehensive production oversight and management assistance for feature films, series, and premium digital content.
- Budget formulation and monitoring, balancing above-the-line and below-the-line allocations, incorporating fringes and payroll, vendor procurement, contingency reserves, completion guarantees, and variance reporting aligned with financial planning.
- Cash flow management and incentive optimization, including eligibility assessments, qualified production expenditure reviews, certification processes, assignment and monetization schedules, and collections or cash account management setups synchronized with recoupment models.
- Scheduling and logistical coordination utilizing production boards and day-out-of-days reports, location and tax incentive strategies, union and guild adherence, and milestone-based gating linked to funding and delivery timelines.
- Post-production and delivery supervision across editing, visual effects, sound design, and color correction pipelines; preparation of IMF/DCP masters, music and effects tracks, accessibility features; coordination of errors and omissions insurance, chain of title documentation, and music clearances.
- Platform-specific delivery protocols adhering to standards and workflows for major buyers such as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Max, MPI, FilmNation, and equivalent entities.
Strategic Development // Market Alignment
- Intellectual property and rights structuring, including option and licensing agreements, exclusivity periods, chain of title verification, and talent attachment strategies, with integration of agency partnerships.
- Project thesis and market positioning analysis focusing on genre-specific economics, budget range compatibility, territorial considerations, and portfolio integration rather than standalone project evaluation.
- Sales and distribution strategy development, encompassing pre-sale approaches, release window planning, minimum guarantee and print/advertising modeling, and collection mechanisms in collaboration with sales agents and distributors.
- Co-production and alternative financing frameworks, incorporating treaty-based arrangements, service agreements, tax incentive maximization, and soft money incorporation aligned with overall capital modeling.
- Incubator and pipeline architecture with defined stage gates, decision matrices, slate-level operational models, and reporting protocols to provide investors with transparent oversight across diversified portfolios rather than isolated exposures.
Engagement // TERMS
1
Capital Integrity Review
$20,000
WHO THIS IS For:
Entrepreneurs and teams with established pitch materials seeking a rigorous, investor-centric assessment, iterative refinements, and comprehensive due diligence preparation.
Overview:
A systematic, investor-oriented evaluation that rigorously tests your materials against established underwriting benchmarks and market dynamics. The deliverable is an optimized, empirically aligned package with targeted corrections to structural, financial, and strategic elements.
What’s Included:
- Quantitative audit of pitch deck, budget summary, financial projections, and capitalization table to verify empirical credibility and internal consistency
- Empirical validation of business model viability and capital structure, including alignment with funding sequences, instrument optimization, and risk-adjusted fit
- Granular budget analysis with use-of-funds reconciliation, contingency modeling, and above-the-line/below-the-line ratio optimization using sensitivity metrics
- Review of distribution waterfalls and return projections, incorporating multi-scenario simulations and probabilistic sensitivity analyses
- Data-driven market positioning and comparables benchmarking, recalibrated to satisfy institutional capital thresholds
- Strategic outreach planning and investor engagement protocols, including narrative scripting and anticipatory objection resolution based on behavioral insights
- Comprehensive data room framework and diligence artifact recommendations, grounded in best-practice checklists
- Selective introductions to vetted investors, contingent on project qualification and strategic alignment
Why This Tier Exists:
Your foundation is solid, yet subtle refinements can elevate investability. This service employs analytical diagnostics to identify and mitigate impediments such as financial discrepancies, risk opacity, and positioning misalignments, drawing on market-validated methodologies to bridge the gap to funding readiness.
Timeline: 3–4 weeks
2
Capital Structure Finalization
$25,000
Who this is For:
Projects demonstrating tangible momentum yet hampered by discrepancies across pitch deck, budget, financial model, and offering terms. Ideal for scenarios where initial interest fails to translate into commitments, necessitating alignment with institutional capital standards.
Overview:
A strategic reconstruction aimed at optimizing conversion rates by addressing foundational deficiencies. This process finalizes the capital structure, refines cash-flow dynamics, enhances risk mitigation strategies, and calibrates the funding ask to ensure seamless readability for analysts, partners, and investment committees.
What’s Included:
- All deliverables from Capital Integrity Review
- Integrated operating model incorporating cash-flow timing, incentive monetization pathways, and multi-scenario probabilistic analyses
- Finalization of sources and uses, with instrument optimization, seniority hierarchies, and collateral synchronization
- Budget recalibration, including use-of-funds reconciliation and contingency modeling based on empirical thresholds
- Harmonization of distribution waterfalls and recoupment sequences, aligned with investor-targeted yield metrics
- Refreshed market positioning with a robust, defensible comparables dataset and outcome-oriented framing
- Offer architecture design: funding quantum, security instruments, covenants, oversight protocols, and escalation mechanisms
- Valuation and pricing methodologies for equity allocation and profit corridor optimization
- Investor briefing and investment committee-ready memorandum, distilling core thesis, risk profiles, and mitigation strategies
- Meeting narrative development, anticipatory objection resolution, and term-sheet negotiation preparation
- Targeted capital partner mapping and phased outreach sequencing
- Selective introductions to vetted investors, subject to internal qualification thresholds
Why This Tier Exists:
Persistent "interest without closure" often signals underlying structural variances. This tier applies diagnostic frameworks to eradicate inconsistencies, complete capital stack deficiencies, and empower you to engage in discussions with a quantitatively coherent package that facilitates advancement rather than protracted deliberation.
3
Venture Realization Strategy
$35,000
Who this is For:
Founders harboring high-potential concepts requiring foundational venture articulation, operational and financial engineering, and investor-aligned presentation. Suited for transforming nascent ideas into empirically underwriteable propositions with executable frameworks.
Overview:
A comprehensive lifecycle engineering from ideation to investable entity. This entails defining the venture thesis, architecting integrated operational and financial models, designing capital and governance structures, delineating market trajectories, and crafting materials optimized for analyst and partner scrutiny.
What’s Included:
– All Tier 1 and Tier 2 Services
- Venture thesis articulation and value-driver mapping with empirical prioritization
- Integrated operating and financial modeling, encompassing unit economics, scenario simulations, and temporal dynamics
- Capital stack blueprinting with sources/uses alignment and risk-adjusted instrument selection
- Governance and control architecture, including reporting cadences, performance gates, and decision protocols
- Intellectual property and rights strategy, with strategic asset packaging
- Talent and partnership ecosystem strategy, leveraging studio and network methodologies
- Distribution and go-to-market pathways with phased sequencing and milestone metrics
- Investment committee-grade deck structuring, executive briefs, and decision-support memoranda
- Executive advisory cadence through recurring one-on-one sessions
- Curated introductions to qualified counterparties upon alignment verification
Why This Tier Exists:
To transmute speculative notions into rigorous architectures by supplanting ambiguity with data-driven frameworks, calibrating economics to institutional mandates, and positioning you to navigate capital processes with substantiated authority.
Timeline: 6–8 weeks
Timeline: 4–6 weeks
Standards For All Tiers
This is a professional advisory service designed for committed operators.
It is not suitable for exploratory inquiries or those solely seeking capital introductions without foundational readiness.
Service Expectations:
- Ideal for clients who can supply complete documentation, substantiate their assumptions, and assume accountability for implementation.
- Not appropriate for preliminary testing, undefined objectives, or expectations of comprehensive gap-filling without client input.
- Focuses on risk mitigation for both capital providers and projects through analytical and strategic support.
- Emphasizes identifying potential failure points, implementing corrections, and maintaining alignment throughout funding processes.
What that means in practice:
- No guarantees of capital outcomes; success depends on market and investor validation.
- Timelines vary based on material completeness and response efficiency.
- Progression requires independent merit-based acceptance by stakeholders.
- All engagements are fee-based for advisory services.
- Structured as independent consulting, not partnerships, co-productions, or contingent arrangements.
- Fees reflect senior expertise, diligence-standard deliverables, and operational support tailored to capital processes.
- Outputs prioritize underwriting rationale, competitive benchmarking, and financial sustainability over promotional narratives.
Compensation Structure and Compliance
- Compensation is exclusively on a fee-for-service basis, in full compliance with U.S. securities regulations.
- Under applicable U.S. securities laws:
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Transaction-based compensation, such as percentages of funds raised, constitutes broker-dealer activity.
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Only registered broker-dealers are authorized to receive such fees.
- No involvement in capital raising or transaction-based remuneration.
- Rejection of all contingent structures, including raise percentages, success fees, backend participations, equity grants, warrants, or profit shares tied to introductions.
- All services are provided on a direct, upfront fee model for analytical and advisory work.
- Fully aligned with SEC and FINRA guidelines to ensure regulatory adherence.
Testimonials
*Rapp Consulting, LLC provides advisory and packaging services ONLY. I am not a broker-dealer and do not solicit, offer, or sell securities, handle funds or accept transaction-based or success compensation. Any introductions are incidental to my advisory work, non-exclusive, and uncompensated beyond fixed fees. Issuers are solely responsible for their offering materials, regulatory filings, and investor communications.*