Step 1 of the flow · About 20 minutes on the client's side

The intake your clients
fill in 20 minutes, not 90.

24 questions written for the client's business, plus 10 optional deeper ones. Their answers save automatically as they type. When they submit, the diagnostic starts writing itself.

About 20 minutes for the client Tailored to the kind of business Same-day deployment Immediate access after payment
Watch it work

One minute: how the questions get written.

Narrated, with captions on screen. Real screens from the live intake.

What it is

A pre-call the client fills out before you meet.

Every consulting engagement starts the same way: you spend 60 to 90 minutes on a discovery call gathering context: revenue, team, offer, sales process, bottlenecks, financials, goals. Half of what you learn you already suspected. The other half the client could have written down in a form.

VentureFrame moves that whole conversation onto the client's plate, before the meeting. They answer 24 questions written for their business, on their own time. Your consultant walks into your session with everything already known, and spends the hour on strategy, the part that actually gets paid for.

There is no stored question list. The engine writes every question for the client. It starts from the client's business and what they have said, so a roofer is asked about crew capacity and insurance work and a dog groomer about boarding occupancy, and each next batch is written from the answers so far. It never repeats a question already asked. The facts it has to collect stay the same for every client (revenue, team size, margin, goals and so on), so the scoring is comparable, but the wording is its own each time. After the 24 questions, the client can answer 10 more optional deeper ones, also written for them. If the engine is briefly unavailable the page waits and offers a retry rather than falling back to a generic list. After the intake, it also writes follow-up questions for your consultant to ask in person.

By the numbers

About 20 minutes on the client's side. 60-90 minutes off yours.

  • 24 questions covering context, revenue, sales, team, financials, goals, plus 10 optional deeper ones
  • 24 questions written for each client, 10 optional deeper ones, and follow-up questions written for your consultant afterward
  • Auto-saved so the client can pause and come back
  • Progress bar and clean UI, feels like a well-designed form, not a survey grind
  • You get an email the moment they submit
Client experience

What your client sees, in order.

1

They click the invite link in their email.

You invite them from your Agency HQ dashboard by entering their name and email. The engine sends the client an email with a one-click link, your name in the from-line, VentureFrame on the diagnostic itself, if you supplied one.

2

The page loads instantly with their name at the top.

No sign-in required. Their name and business are already pre-populated. First screen: "Hi Marcus, plan on about 20 minutes." (It uses the client's actual first name on their screen.) Big green Start button.

3

They answer one question at a time, with a progress bar.

Questions arrive one screen at a time: biz name, industry, stage, team size, revenue band, top offer, customer type, how they get customers, sales process, avg deal size, biggest bottleneck, hardest truth, 12-month goals, team structure, financial health, biggest win, biggest loss, anything else. Answers auto-save as they type, closing the tab or losing wifi doesn't lose their work.

4

They hit submit and get a thank-you with next steps.

Instant confirmation: "Intake received. Vector Growth Advisory is prepping your full 13-section diagnostic and will reach out to schedule." (Your agency name is substituted for the client's actual agency on their screen.) An executive summary is generated for them, a plain-language reflection of what they told you, plus meeting-prep questions and what to bring.

Live preview

What a live intake screen looks like.

This is the actual intake page your clients see. Nothing hidden, same styling, same flow, same auto-save behavior.

ventureframe.net/client-intake/?t=abc123
VentureFrame
Prepared for Sarah Chen
Question 7 of 24
One sentence. What do most customers buy from you?
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Answers auto-save. Close and come back later.

The handoff

How the intake feeds the diagnostic.

The moment your client hits submit, three things happen in parallel, before you even open your dashboard.

1. Their answers

Stored + structured

All 20 answers save to your client's profile card in the CRM. Field-by-field breakdown you can scroll or export.

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2. The engine reads it

13-section blueprint

Marketing, Ops, Financial Health, Team, Strategy, Executive Summary, Priority Actions, Growth Model, Differentiation, Investor Readiness, 12-Month Roadmap, plus Monte Carlo revenue projection and Investor Readiness Score.

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3. Your session prep

Adaptive follow-up questions

The brain reads the intake and the auto-generated blueprint, then writes the right number of in-person follow-up questions for you to ask when you meet with your client. No template. Includes a stopping-criteria paragraph.

See exactly what the diagnostic contains →

Under the hood

Questions engineered around what actually matters.

Fixed facts, written fresh every time

There is no stored question list. The engine writes all 24 questions for each client, in their business's own terms, and adds 10 optional deeper ones. The facts it has to collect stay the same for every client (revenue, team size, margin, goals and so on) because the revenue model and the scoring depend on them; the wording and the extra questions are written fresh. It then writes follow-up questions for your consultant to ask in person, as many as that client's answers call for.

Grounded in the client's own words

The diagnostic is written from the client's intake answers, and the engine is instructed to ground every claim in them. It can still get things wrong or add an outside estimate, so read the report before it reaches your client. You can edit it first, and you choose whether reports send automatically or only after you review them.

Plain language

The engine is instructed to write direct, plain prose with no fluff, and em dashes are removed from every saved report automatically.

Client-safe by default

Intake pages have no signup gate, no card capture, no upsell. The client experience is short, respectful, and does one thing well: gather what your consultant needs to walk in prepared.

Frequently asked

Everything you'd probably want to ask.

How long does the client actually spend on the intake?

Plan on about 20 minutes for the 24 questions, and a few more minutes if the client answers the 10 optional deeper ones. Answers auto-save so drop-off in the middle doesn't cost the answer.

Can I customize the intake questions per engagement?

You do not edit questions, because there is no stored list to edit: the engine writes each question from the client's business and what they have already said. What is fixed is the set of facts it must collect (revenue, team size, margin, goals and so on), because the revenue projection and the readiness score read them. It also writes follow-up questions for your consultant after the intake.

Whose name does my client see?

Both names. You are credited as the consultant who sent it, in the from-line, the intake header and the confirmation screen. The diagnostic itself carries VentureFrame, so your client knows you brought them a real engine rather than a template.

What happens if the client abandons halfway through?

Their answers auto-save on every field. They can close the tab, come back tomorrow from any device, and pick up exactly where they left off, the invite link stays valid.

Where do the answers live?

Stored per client in your Agency HQ dashboard. The database blocks direct public access to these records, and the dashboard only shows an agency its own clients. VentureFrame, which runs the service, can also access them to operate and support it. The answers are sent to Anthropic's Claude to write the diagnostic, and Anthropic's privacy policy applies to how it handles them. VentureFrame does not train or fine-tune any AI model on them.

Does the intake work on mobile?

Yes. Fully responsive. Most clients complete on their phone.

How does this feed the diagnostic?

The moment the client hits submit, the engine writes the full 13-section blueprint using their answers as source-of-truth. In parallel, it writes the right number of in-person follow-up questions for your consultant to ask when you meet. Both are in your dashboard within about five minutes. See how the diagnostic works.

What if a client's answer doesn't make sense or feels off?

The consultant follow-up questions are designed to probe exactly those spots. The engine reads the intake for weak or contradictory answers and generates targeted questions the consultant can ask live to close the gaps.

Can I see the intake in action before I buy?

Yes. On the demo call I'll walk you through a real (anonymized) intake with the demo agency account end-to-end, plus the diagnostic it generated. Book here: calendly.com/jacobpitchford-lbos.

How fast can I start using this after I pay?

Same-day. Immediate access after payment. You sign in to your Agency HQ, invite your first client, and they can complete intake within the hour.

Watch Agency HQ in action

Agency HQ on a sample agency, 2:14. Real engine output. Sound on.

See the intake in your own dashboard.

Book a quick demo. I'll walk you through a live intake, the diagnostic it generates, and the CRM your team will use every day.

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