Holdy for Consultants | Get paid before the deck lands

Inside a Commit Link

The first hour isn't free anymore.

Discovery, audit, scoping, recommendations, write it once, lock it as a paid deliverable. Holdy turns your strategy work into a fixed-price Stripe-funded contract before you open Figma or Notion.

→ Brief hashed (SHA-256) and signed at funding
→ Deliverable = the deck, not a vague "session"
→ Funds released on accept or after 7-day auto-settle

Commit Link

CL-3941 · Funded

Live

Consultant

David Mwangi · Mwangi Advisory

Client

Northwave SaaS B.V.

Deliverable

GTM teardown for €0–1M ARR SaaS

✓60-min recorded strategy call (kickoff)
✓12-page action plan PDF (positioning, pricing, channel mix)
✓30-day async follow-up via shared Notion

Revisions

1 round

Deadline

10 days

Fee mode

Split 50/50

Auto-settle

7 days

Deal value

€1,650

Held by Stripe

✓ Confirmed

Three pains consultants know

Free advice, ghosted invoices, eternal "Net-30".

The 90-minute "discovery call"

You walk them through the entire framework. Take a screen-share through three case studies. Diagnose their funnel live. Then: "Great chat, let me circle back internally." You never hear from them again. They just got the workshop for free.

Holdy fix: the kickoff call is inside the Commit Link. Until they fund Stripe, you only send a 15-minute fit call, not a free consulting hour.

"Can I just pick your brain again?"

Engagement closed three months ago. Now it's a "quick voice memo on pricing" here, a "30-second take on this competitor" there. Each one is a scope creep. You're either rude or unpaid.

Holdy fix: follow-up windows are a deliverable line ("30 days async via Notion"). After day 30, the only path back is a new Commit Link, friendly, automatic, paid.

Net-30 becomes Net-Whenever

Deck delivered. Roadmap adopted. Invoice sent. Day 45: "It's with finance." Day 60: "Approvals." Day 75: "Did you resend?" You're funding their working capital while they shipped your advice.

Holdy fix: the client funds Stripe at acceptance, before kickoff. Acceptance after delivery = instant payout. No response = auto-settle in 7 days. Finance never enters the chat.

Anonymized deal

A recent Holdy advisory engagement.

Deal size

€2,400

Session + doc

90m + 14p

Settle time

11 days

Holdy fee

€156

A Series-A B2B SaaS hired a pricing/packaging consultant for a 90-min discovery call + 14-page repositioning doc + one revision. Commit Link funded day 0. Kickoff call recorded day 2. Doc delivered day 7. One revision (added competitor matrix) accepted day 11. Split fee mode (€78 each side, consultant nets €2,322). Zero invoice chasing.

vs. the alternatives

Holdy vs. how consultants usually get paid.

	Hourly invoice	Clarity.fm	Holdy
Paid before kickoff	No, deliver then chase	Per-minute, capped scope	Yes, Stripe-held
Custom deliverables	Yes, in email	Call only	Hashed at funding
Net-30/60 risk	You absorb it	None, micro-only	Zero
Client relationship	Yours	Platform-owned	Yours
Fee	0% (but unpaid risk)	15% per call	5–8% (splittable)

Charge for the first hour.
Then deliver it.

Turn your scoping doc into a Stripe-funded Commit Link. Client accepts, you start. Auto-settle in 7 days. No more "Net-Whenever" invoices.

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