Investors stopped rewarding growth and started interrogating efficiency. We model your unit economics against cited 2025-26 fintech benchmarks — to the dollar — and map which compliance gap is blocking which enterprise deal. Insight in hours, not weeks of discovery calls. Start free: a 2-minute Revenue Leak Snapshot, in your inbox today.
Median CAC payback for well-run fintechs sits at 12-18 months — and Series A investors now treat anything above 18 months as a flag before they look at growth. Most founders don't know their fully-loaded number until it's in the term sheet conversation.
Source: a16z Fintech State of the Market 2025 · Bessemer State of the Cloud 2025
One-time. No retainer, no meetings. Start free with the Revenue Leak Snapshot. The $900 Starter is flat at any size; the full diagnostic is leak-anchored and follows the higher of your ARR or headcount — each tier lands at roughly 0.5% of what a fintech your size is typically bleeding.
Priced to the value on the table. Your tier follows the higher of your ARR or headcount, confirmed at intake — so a larger company never buys a smaller tier. Each full-diagnostic tier is leak-anchored at roughly 0.5% of the revenue a fintech your size is typically bleeding: Growth $9,000 ≈ 0.5% of the $1.35M–$2.25M you are likely leaking. The bigger the company, the deeper the pass and the more we recover. $30M+ ARR or 200+ people → direct enterprise scope.
Not a generic GTM audit. The 3 most painful fintech frameworks below are exactly what Series A investors and enterprise procurement teams scrutinise first. Your $900 Starter pins these 5; the full $4,500 Diagnostic runs all 18.
The five above are the sharpest for fintech. They sit inside an 18-framework revenue system — 14 core revenue frameworks plus 4 fintech signature frameworks. = the five your $900 Starter targets first.
Four inputs, one estimate. Not a substitute for the full diagnostic — a directional preview from fintech benchmarks.
These are the five revenue leaks we find most often — and quantify, to the dollar — in the fintech diagnostic.
Payment failures and card declines silently drive 20-40% of gross churn in fintechs. Most have the dunning logic already — it just isn't tuned.
A missing SOC2 Type II or incomplete PCI DSS control parks six-figure enterprise deals in security review for months. Founders rarely know the dollar figure stalled.
Fully-loaded CAC segmented by motion — not blended — is what investors actually underwrite. Most fintechs are 20-35% higher than they think once all motion costs are included.
Pricing was set at launch and hasn't been revisited as the platform expanded. Embedded-payments ACVs in 2025 have room most founders aren't capturing.
Friction in the identity and KYC flow kills activation before a single payment processes. Fixing the first-session funnel is the highest-ROI lever in early-stage fintech.
From free scorecard to the full $4,500 diagnostic, the path is identical. Only the depth scales with the price.
5 questions for the free scorecard, 18 for the full Founder diagnostic. 5-15 minutes. No call required, ever.
18 frameworks anchored to your fintech firmographics — ARR band, payment model, compliance posture, burn rate. Cited 2025-26 fintech benchmarks. Dollar-quantified findings where your data allows; compliance gaps mapped directionally to deal categories.
Board-grade PDF 6-hour VIP delivery — including the compliance readiness map for SOC 2 & PCI-DSS. Depth scales by tier. Async, async, async.
A real preview of a Founder diagnostic — cited fintech benchmarks, dollar-quantified findings, compliance-gap-to-deal-blocking map, unit-economics stress test. No fluff.
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Every comparable below is a real public price for the same category of deliverable. We sit below the floor of every one.
| The traditional alternative | What it costs (2025-26) | Intake Review |
|---|---|---|
| Generic fintech GTM / revenue audit | $5,000 - $15,000 | $900 Starter |
| SOC2 / PCI compliance readiness consultant | $15,000 - $70,000+ | Included in $900 Starter |
| Boutique fintech revenue diagnostic | $20,000 - $25,000 | $4,500 Founder |
| Fractional CFO / CRO retainer | $8,000 - $22,000 / month | $9,000 Growth |
| McKinsey / BCG fintech engagement | $1.2M+ (8 weeks) | $18,000 Scale |
We say no to roughly 1 in 4 inbound requests. Here is why.
A report you can't act on is just a PDF. So your diagnostic isn't finished when we hit send — it's finished when it earns a place in your board pack. If a finding doesn't hold up, a number needs sharpening, or you're missing an input to make it precise, we rework it for free until it's something you'd actually move on. No refund-and-run: we keep going until it's useful to you.
Used by SaaS companies at your stage to identify hidden revenue leakage.
Every dollar figure and ratio in our diagnostic is anchored to a public, verifiable source. Primary references:
Bessemer State of the Cloud 2025 · a16z Fintech State of the Market 2025 · Andreessen Horowitz State of Fintech 2025 · OpenView SaaS Benchmarks 2025 · ChartMogul SaaS Retention 2025 · Vanta 2025 SOC2 Enterprise Buyer Survey