Beacon runs the round that funds your growth target
Growing revenue costs money. Beacon works out how much and when to go, then builds the data room, shortlists the investors and answers their questions — while you run the company.
Beacon works out what your growth target costs
Your growth target is $52.0M by 31 December 2027. Reaching it takes budget and it takes people. Beacon already holds both, so the capital need comes straight off the growth target, not out of a spreadsheet somebody builds in the autumn.
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Illustrative · the worked company used across these pages
Beacon picks the month your numbers price best
Beacon reads your cash forward and names two months: the month to go, and the last month you responsibly can.
Illustrative · both dates derived from the same cash line
September 2027 instead: the same $30M at ~$185M post. Two more points of the company, for the same money.
Dilution, not ARRThe round closes in March 2027, on four quarters on plan. $30M at ~$220M post.
The same round, priced by the month it closes. The other five problems, priced the same way, are on the price of not knowing.
Once the month is chosen the only question left is the size — and the size is a decision about ownership, not about cash.
Beacon sizes the round at the least dilution
Sized to what the growth target needs and priced off your own figures, so you take the money the target requires and not a round number someone suggested.
Illustrative · cash and headline dilution — not a cap table
Every number a partner cannot check is a number they discount, and the discount comes out of your ownership. That is the whole reason the next three sections exist.
Beacon builds the data room and keeps it current
Every section reads live from billing, the CRM, accounting and the bank. Current in March, still current in May, with nobody touching it in between.
Illustrative · a teaser room and an all-access room run off the same figures
With the room standing, Beacon can do the part that used to take a quarter: find the investors whose criteria your figures already meet, and answer them.
Beacon shortlists the investors your figures already fit
Not a list of everyone who invests at your size — a scored shortlist, where the score is your own figures read against what each investor actually backs.
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Beacon scores and proposes. Beacon never sends material to investors without your consent.
Beacon answers most questions and decides which reach you
An answer can only ever come from the data room sections you opened. You choose how the data room handles a question.
The investor gets an answer in seconds, drawn only from the data room sections you opened.
Your side: you see every question and every answer — including the one that got nothing, with the data room section the investor wanted, so you decide whether to open it.
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Nothing in the last three sections waited on you — which is where the four months went.
Beacon runs the round while you run the company
A round is four months of the CEO's year, and most of that is not conversations — it is assembling the room, rebuilding the numbers, and re-cutting figures that aged while you were talking.
Half the round spent getting ready to have the round
The room was already open, and nobody waited for an answer
back in the year. Nine of them were assembly that never should have existed, and three came off diligence itself, because nothing was waiting on you.
Illustrative · both tracks on the same 20-week scale
You reach the growth target and keep more equity
Eighteen months on, the growth target is funded and behind you — on a round you chose the month for, and a quarter you spent running the company.
Know what your growth target costs
The capital system ships in wave 2, starting with the investor data room. This page describes the designed behaviour.