Market data and deal flow
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US venture capital deal value
Broader US venture market capital deployment
Does not establish: Spending on founder advisersQ3 US VC activity
All relevant reported VC deals in that quarter
Does not establish: Number of founders buying advisory reviewsAI's VC deal-value share
Capital concentration in AI
Does not establish: Probability of ordinary seed financingVC fund capital raised
Supply-side venture fundraising
Does not establish: Funds immediately available to any one startupLarge-fund fundraising share
Fundraising concentration
Does not establish: Pricing trend for independent strategistsGlobal coaching workforce
Global adjacent profession, survey-based
Does not establish: US founder decision adviser headcountGlobal coaching revenue
Worldwide coaching activity
Does not establish: US founder decision advisory spend2025 coach study responses
Study survey context
Does not establish: Representative buyer-side founder interviewsUS business formation update
Broad new business applications and formation series
Does not establish: Count of venture-backed 2–50-person companiesManagement analyst pay
Broad occupation employment compensation
Does not establish: Consulting fee or adviser package rateSeparate evidence rows preserve the different units and populations. No shared numeric scale is implied.
Inside this section
Download the research ↓Executive finding — a measurable category does not yet exist
Founder decision advisory is not an established statistical industry line.
Source-backed signals, with exact measurement boundaries
Compare evidence, observation and period, what it represents and what it doesn't prove.
The context's proposed market-size scenario — clearly not observed market data
The supplied research context gives this directional hypothetical : 50,000–100,000 potential US companies × 10–20% adoption × $10,000–$30,000 annual spend = $50m–$600m possible annual addressable spend.
Why a 2026 founder can misread the funding environment
The PitchBook-NVCA monitor reports record aggregate 2026 deployment but says a small number of large AI financings dominate, while exits and fund access remain constrained.
Deal flow: what can be listed responsibly?
Broader, independently evidenced capital events/activities:
What prices can be published?
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Proposed bottom-up segmentation and research design
Compare test, data needed, publishable metric if obtained and risk.
Editorial rules for market data
Date every figure and report whether the metric is US versus global , fundraising versus financing , job salary versus service fee , modelled versus observed , and aggregate market versus target buyer cohort .
Editorial self-assessment
Not independently validated