Your practice, with a firm behind it
You bring the judgment and the relationships. We bring the contracts, the tools, the training and the back office, so your practice runs like a firm from day one.
Three things you cannot build alone
- 01A team
So you never have to say no to a deal
CMOs and CROs who go to market together. When a client needs the other half of the number, or more than one person can carry, the team takes it on with you.
- 02Your practice
Built with you, not handed to you
We help you shape your practice inside the firm’s four: the methods, frameworks and diagnostics you sell and deliver, improved by every advisor who uses them.
- 03The platform
So you excel at your practice
The tools, the paper and the back office, from the first call to the board update, so your time goes to clients rather than to infrastructure.
Before an independent advisor bills a client, someone has to stand up the CRM, the data, the paper, the content and the reporting, and then pay to run it every month. Watch it add up.
You start with clients, not infrastructure. The firm already paid for the rest.
Start the conversationEverything around the work, so you can do the work
The client contracts with us
Mahdlo, LLC signs the client. You do not draft MSAs, argue payment terms or carry the contractual risk of the engagement.
Billed in advance, paid in ten days
Clients are billed in advance and you are paid within ten business days of the client paying. You never invoice or chase anyone.
From first call to board update
Prospecting, proposals, plans, meeting records, account health and the executive update, finished and on brand in an afternoon.
Nobody starts cold
Four modules, twenty lessons and a certification exam with a 90% pass mark, before your first client. Certification is recorded by the firm.
Four practices to sell and deliver
Strategic Alignment, Revenue Velocity, Customer Technologies and Organizational Agility, each with its frameworks and diagnostics.
Handled
CRM and prospecting email, invoicing, collections and distributions, proposal support and filing, so your week goes to clients.
We earn a disclosed share, not your margin
Most firms earn on the spread between what the client is billed and what you are paid, and you rarely see the real number. Every split here is calculated on top-line revenue, the number the client actually pays, before Mahdlo takes anything.
Your share of every engagement dollar
What we will not promise
Most firms in this category lead with what they will hand you. We would rather you hear the constraints first, because they are the part people find out later and resent.
We don’t hand you a pipeline
You prospect your own network, and that is the trait that decides who succeeds here. When the firm does source a lead, the split reflects it.
You are 1099, not W-2
An independent contractor who owns the practice and the relationships. You pay your own taxes, and there are no benefits, insurance or pension.
It is a ramp, not a switch
Most advisors bill nothing for the first couple of months. Come with runway for six, and a list of people who already trust your work.
It isn’t free to join
There is a one-time onboarding fee and a flat monthly platform fee. Both are in writing on the first call, before you are asked to decide anything.
Five ways to do this. They are not the same job.
Each model makes money differently, and that decides what your life looks like inside it. Judge them on their economics, not their marketing.
| Model | How the firm earns | What that means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Executive bench | Utilization across a large bench | You are a resource to be allocated. Income depends on their pipeline and how they assign it. |
| Full C-suite firm | A retainer per role | Marketing and revenue are separate practices with separate contracts. You own half of the number. |
| Talent marketplace | Match volume, on the spread | You are a listing: no ownership of the outcome, no training, no back office, no view of what the client paid. |
| Franchise | An upfront fee, a royalty and a monthly fee | You buy the brand and the method, then generate all of your own work and pay for it every month. |
| Principal-led firmWhere Mahdlo sits | A disclosed share of top-line revenue | You own the relationship and the outcome. One principal owns marketing and revenue. The ceiling is your own capacity. |
Operators who have carried a number
This works for executives who want to keep doing the work and sell it themselves, not for people looking to be placed.
You will do well here if
- You have held a VP title or above at a Fortune 500 company, or a C-level title at any company
- You want to work as a 1099 and go to market as one team, under one name
- You want to sell and deliver, not build a back office
- You will prospect your own network, starting in week one
- You have the runway for a six-month ramp
- You will pay a flat monthly fee for the platform that carries you
- This is your main work, not something between full-time roles
It is not a fit for
- Career consultants
- Agency backgrounds
- Anyone wanting a side brand
- Anyone waiting for leads
Five steps, and you see the numbers first
- Four questionsTeam, seniority, the platform fee and whether this is your main work. Four yeses open the form.
- Apply and book a callA short form to see whether this is the right fit, then a thirty-minute call.
- A fit callThe work, the ramp and the money, scored the same way for everyone.
- A 90-day planYour first quarter, built from your own network.
- References, then the AcademyCertification comes before your first client.
Start with the numbers you carried
A short form to see whether this might be the right fit. The reply is a conversation, not a pitch.
Four questions first
Thank you for being straight with us. Mahdlo is built for advisors who answer yes to all four, so we will not ask for your time on a call. If something changes, we would be glad to hear from you at info@mahdlo.net.
Thanks. Now pick a time.
We read every one of these before the call. Thirty minutes on what you have done, what you want to build, and exactly what this costs and pays.