Questions we are asked before every engagement.

Start with Find Your Fit. It is a short structured questionnaire that scores your situation against our eight engagement pathways and returns a recommended starting point, an alternate path and any red flags worth addressing first. If you already have a specific deal in front of you, Submit Your Deal is the better entry point.

Real estate sponsors, acquisition firms and established operating businesses that are raising private capital, acquiring assets or companies, or building an investment platform. The common thread is an operator with a real strategy who needs the infrastructure behind it built properly.

Rarely, but the honest answer depends on whether you have a strategy and a way to source opportunities. If you have neither, the work is strategy first, not capital. If you have a strategy and no infrastructure, that is exactly the gap we build. We will tell you when the right answer is to wait.

An architecture session: a working discussion of your structure, capital need, investor base and the operating gaps between them. You leave with a written point of view on the sequence you should follow, whether or not we end up working together.

We run an initial fit screen against what we can genuinely help with. When a deeper look is warranted, we propose a paid analysis and scope it in writing first. You then receive a tailored recommendation on the pathway that fits. Co-GP participation is selective and only ever follows diligence and signed agreements.

In writing, before work begins: phases, deliverables, owners, milestones and fees in one document. We do not run open-ended retainers without defined output.

Fees depend on scope, and we do not publish price lists because the same page rarely means the same work for two firms. Fees are set out in the written scope before anything starts, so you approve the number before work begins.

It varies by pathway and by how much already exists. A focused diagnostic or deal review is measured in weeks; building a private capital program or fund launch infrastructure is measured in months. The written scope sets milestones so you can see progress against a plan rather than against a calendar.

You do. Templates, models, standards, dashboards and documentation transfer to your team, with training and a defined support window. Work that only functions while we are in the room is not finished work.

A project builds a defined asset — a model, a materials set, a data room, a pipeline — and ends. A fractional role holds an ongoing seat: a CIO, acquisitions officer or investor relations lead operating your cadence week to week. Many clients build first, then keep a fractional seat to operate what was built.

No. We are not a broker-dealer and we do not solicit investors, sell securities or take transaction-based compensation for capital raised. We build the program, materials, systems and operating discipline behind your raise, which you and your licensed advisors execute.

Often it is not. A raise that stalls usually traces back to underwriting that does not hold up, a story an investor cannot verify, or no repeatable process behind the outreach. We diagnose which of those it is before recommending a build, because raising harder against a broken input rarely works.

The repeatable machinery behind raising private capital: a defined investor thesis, a materials set that holds up to diligence, a documented pipeline and outreach cadence, reporting standards and the tracking that shows conversion. It is what lets a sponsor raise deal after deal instead of improvising each time, and it is the sensible thing to build before a fund.

Yes, as part of raise infrastructure: structure, document standards, version control and the diligence pack an investor expects to find. Sensitive documents are exchanged through a secure handoff with qualified parties, never uploaded anonymously through this website.

Readiness is a question of track record, deal flow, investor base, management company economics and operating capacity — not enthusiasm. Fund Readiness is a structured assessment that gives you a defensible yes, not yet, or no, along with what would have to be true to change the answer.

Deal by deal keeps flexibility and lower fixed cost; a fund buys speed and discretion but adds a management company, ongoing obligations and investor expectations that do not pause between deals. The right answer depends on deal flow consistency, investor appetite and whether your management company economics work before the fund exists.

No. Fund formation documents are drafted by your securities counsel. We build the infrastructure around them — strategy articulation, model, materials, investor process, reporting and operating cadence — and work alongside your attorneys, administrator and accountants.

The obligations start rather than end: capital calls, reporting cadence, investor communication, pipeline discipline and the operating rhythm that keeps commitments credible. Fund Operations builds and runs that discipline so the second raise is easier than the first.

A written definition of exactly what you will buy: asset or business type, geography, size, return threshold, structure and the disqualifiers. It is what makes deal flow filterable and what lets brokers, bankers and your own team bring you the right opportunities instead of everything.

A Chief Investment Officer owns the thesis, capital allocation and portfolio-level judgment — what you should own and why. A Chief Acquisitions Officer owns the machine that finds, evaluates and executes deals — sourcing, underwriting throughput, negotiation and closing discipline. Firms with a clear thesis but weak execution need the CAO; firms transacting without a coherent thesis need the CIO.

Yes. Model buildout turns a strategy into a repeatable operating model: consistent assumptions, auditable arithmetic, scenario handling and an output format that feeds directly into investor materials. Every number in an investor document should trace back to a cell we can show you.

AEGIS OS is our operating system product: your business, your intelligence, one system. It brings sources of truth, workflow and reporting into a single operating layer so decisions run on the same data. It is a product of RAW Capital Raise, not the company itself, and claims are limited to what is actually deployed for a given client.

No. The first work is almost always establishing sources of truth — clean, current, owned data with a defined system of record. Intelligence layered over inconsistent data produces confident answers that are wrong. AI capability is added where it demonstrably improves a decision or removes real operational load.

An owner internally, access to the systems that hold your operating data, and willingness to settle which system is authoritative where two disagree. The build is a technology and operating-discipline project together; the technology alone does not resolve a data ownership question.

RAW Capital Raise provides consulting, implementation, fractional operating and technology services. We are not a law firm, broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, loan servicer, fund administrator, CPA firm or tax advisor, and nothing we provide is legal, tax, accounting, investment or securities advice.

No. No one credibly can. We build the infrastructure that makes a raise or an acquisition executable and improves how you show up to investors and counterparties. Outcomes depend on your strategy, market conditions, execution and factors outside anyone's control.

No. Nothing on this website is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or interest, and no content should be relied on as the basis for any investment decision.

They are separate. RAW Capital Raise is an advisory and infrastructure firm. RAW Capital Fund and RAW REI Network are separate entities with their own leadership, contracts and client relationships, and this website does not speak for them or make claims on their behalf.

Based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, serving qualified clients across the United States. Engagements run remotely with working sessions in person where it makes a material difference.

Submissions are stored in a private database that is not publicly readable, used to evaluate fit and respond to you. We never ask for Social Security numbers, tax IDs, bank credentials or investor account numbers through this website, and sensitive documents move through a secure handoff with qualified parties rather than an anonymous upload.

Selectively, and only after diligence and signed agreements. It is never the default structure and never a condition of an advisory engagement.

An AI assistant that answers questions about how we work and points you to the right page or form. It provides general information only — it is not advice, it makes no commitments on our behalf, and it should never be given sensitive personal or financial details. A real conversation with our team is always the next step.