Your network opens the door.Let's build the machine behind it.
A model for turning extraordinary relationships into qualified opportunities, compelling investment stories, tokenized offerings and repeatable revenue.
"We don't need 100 introductions. We need the right introduction."
The machine
Rich's network
The right opportunity
DiBS
Story + marketing + activation
Polymath
Technology + professional services + infrastructure
Regulated ecosystem
Legal + broker-dealer + compliance + accounting
Tokenized offering
Repeat
Rich's Superpower
Rich doesn't need to run the play.He needs to get us the ball.
Rich's greatest value is access: relationships most companies simply cannot manufacture through advertising, outbound sales or traditional business development.
His role
- Identify
- Validate
- Introduce
- Help advance
- Hand off
Rich gets Polymath into conversations we may otherwise never have. Once the opportunity is qualified, Polymath and its ecosystem take responsibility for execution, and Rich stays involved strategically wherever his relationships or experience add value.
Not his job
"Rich gets the ball into the right hands. Then the team runs the play."
Focus
Not every asset should be our customer.
Having a great asset is not enough. Having a famous name is not enough. Having a large valuation is not enough. A tokenized offering still needs a credible path to capital.
Instead of asking
"Who do you know that could tokenize something?"
We ask
"Who do you know that already has a credible path to the investors?"
We are not looking for assets. We are looking for assets + distribution.
The Target Profiles
The two opportunities we want Rich to find.
Two clear profiles make every conversation faster and every introduction more valuable.
Crowdfund ready
The audience already exists.
Opportunities where the issuer or asset owner brings a built-in investor audience.
Celebrity / creator
A musician owns a valuable catalogue and has millions of engaged fans. Instead of only selling institutionally, the artist could potentially allow eligible fans and investors to participate in the economics through an appropriately structured offering.
Customer community
A beloved consumer brand with hundreds of thousands of customers saying: you've bought our products, now here's an opportunity to invest alongside us.
Strategic / anchor investor
A family office, sovereign investor, strategic JV partner, commodity buyer or institution is already committed. The remaining raise becomes dramatically more credible because the first meaningful capital is already there.
= High-potential opportunity
Pre-funded projects
The capital interest already exists.
Larger projects where credible institutional investors have already expressed serious interest, but the investment still needs to be structured, packaged and operationalized.
The key distinction: Polymath is not being asked to manufacture $100M of investor demand from scratch. The project already has meaningful investor interest, and Polymath helps provide the infrastructure and ecosystem to turn that interest into an executable offering.
= Executable capital formation
The Qualification Filter
Before Rich makes the introduction...
A strong opportunity should answer yes to several of these. Tap to score one.
0 / 10 answered yes
Keep qualifying before the introduction
The objective isn't more leads. It's fewer, better opportunities, so every introduction protects the relationship behind it.
From Rich's Existing Pipeline
The network is already there.
Breadth of relationships Rich can potentially access, across categories.
Identified potential asset value
$201.4M – $425.4M
Historical identified range from Rich's pipeline. Preliminary and subject to qualification.
Asset value is not the same as qualified pipeline or Polymath revenue. The opportunity is to take this extraordinary relationship network and apply a much stronger qualification system to it.
The Perfect Pilot
Don't build the empire first.Prove it on one great deal.
We don't need to solve the entire pipeline today. We need one opportunity that fits the formula.
Black Coffee
Music catalogue / economic rights
$50M–$100M+
Rich's pipeline estimate of the potential opportunity. Illustrative only. Nothing here states or implies that Black Coffee or his representatives have agreed to any transaction.
Asset
Potentially valuable catalogue / economic rights
Audience
A globally recognized artist with a large following
Authenticity
The artist could potentially help tell the story
Distribution
The audience already exists
DiBS
Builds the campaign and activates the story
Polymath
Technology and lifecycle infrastructure
Regulated partners handle regulated activities as applicable. This potentially fits Path 1: crowdfund ready, subject to legal classification and qualification.
= The pilot
After the Introduction
Rich opens the door.We take it from there.
Rich's load is concentrated at the start. Polymath and DiBS progressively take over execution.
The Issuer Roadmap
What does tokenizing an offering actually take?
A view Rich can walk a prospective issuer through: here's what the process actually looks like.
8–12 weeks
Typical initial structuring and launch-readiness target.
$265K–$340K
Illustrative first-offering planning benchmark, before broker-dealer success compensation.
3–9+ months
Potential capital formation period.
1–2 weeks
Illustrative closing and token issuance period once investor requirements are satisfied.
4–8 weeks
Potential timeline for similar subsequent offerings once the infrastructure exists.
The historical $265K–$340K planning benchmark included approximately $40K of baseline marketing. If an issuer chooses a larger bespoke DiBS campaign, that DiBS budget replaces or expands the baseline allowance rather than being added on top of it.
The Budget
Where does the money actually go?
Magnitude and timing, not false precision.
Legal
$100K–$150K
Fixed / upfront
Accounting
$15K–$50K
Fixed / upfront
Tax
$10K–$25K
Fixed / upfront
Banking / escrow
$5K–$20K
Variable
KYC / compliance
$5K–$15K
Variable
Broker-dealer
~$1,500 + success
Success-based
Polymath
~$20K–$25K yr 1
Ongoing
DiBS
~$40K baseline, custom above
Variable
Other transaction costs
Scope dependent
Variable
First-offering historical planning benchmark
~$265K–$340K
Before broker-dealer success compensation.
This benchmark historically included approximately $40K of baseline marketing. A custom DiBS campaign should be modeled as: base planning budget, less the baseline marketing allowance, plus the approved DiBS campaign budget.
Two Engines
Polymath builds the infrastructure.DiBS builds the story.
Polymath
DiBS
Don't underfund the story.
For qualified Path 1 opportunities especially, marketing isn't an accessory. The audience may be the reason the opportunity works.
Infrastructure × Story = Market readiness
The Business Model
Everyone wins when the opportunity becomes real.
- Rich · relationship + access
- Qualified issuer
- DiBS · marketing revenue
- Polymath · technology + professional services revenue
- Successful case study
- More issuers
- More revenue
- Rich's network becomes more valuable
The principle
- Rich should be rewarded for relationships that become real business.
- DiBS should be rewarded for real marketing work actually performed.
- Polymath should earn revenue for technology, professional services and its role in creating the ecosystem.
- Polymath may also participate economically in DiBS-generated marketing engagements through an agreed referral or revenue-sharing arrangement, subject to final commercial terms and counsel.
Regulated securities activities and any transaction-based compensation remain with appropriately registered parties under their own agreements, reviewed by securities counsel.
No rewards for names on a spreadsheet. Meaningful rewards for relationships that become real business.
Measurement
From pipeline to performance.
A conversion funnel replaces theoretical asset value.
- Relationship identified
- Direct access confirmed
- Warm introduction
- Discovery completed
- Qualified opportunity
- Proposal
- Contract
- Launch
- Revenue collected
$100M asset ≠ $100M pipeline
The important number is expected Polymath + DiBS revenue × probability of closing.
The Formula
The Rich Dolan formula.
Network × Qualification × Story × Infrastructure × Execution
= Repeatable revenue
Rich
brings access.
DiBS
builds the story.
Polymath
builds the infrastructure.
Regulated partners
facilitate regulated activities.
The market
determines the outcome.
Start With One
One great deal changes the conversation.
Step 1
Pick one.
Step 2
Prove the economics.
Step 3
Document the playbook.
Step 4
Create the case study.
Step 5
Repeat.
Offering #1
Builds the machine
Offering #2
Reuses it
Offering #3
Improves it
Offering #4+
Scales it
The Relationship
This can be bigger than an advisory agreement.
Rich's network may be considerably more valuable than a conventional advisory relationship. The opportunity is an arrangement where compensation grows as relationships convert into measurable business value.
Advisor
- Strategic insight
- Positioning
- Market intelligence
- Relationship strategy
Originator
- Find the right opportunities
- Validate access
- Make qualified introductions
- Help advance relationships
DiBS
- Turn qualified opportunities into campaigns
- Build awareness
- Activate audiences
- Support issuer communications
Final compensation mechanics should align economics with actual services and collected business revenue, while maintaining clear boundaries around regulated securities activity.
The network already exists.
Now let's build the machine behind it.
Path 1
Crowdfund ready
Path 2
Pre-funded projects
- Rich's network
- One great pilot
- DiBS + Polymath
- Prove the model
- Repeat
"$201M–$425M of potential assets is interesting. What we turn it into is what matters."
Build the formulaImmediate next steps
- 01Agree on the two target opportunity profiles.
- 02Re-score Rich's existing pipeline against those criteria.
- 03Select the three strongest opportunities.
- 04Choose one flagship pilot.
- 05Get the decision-maker introduction.
- 06Validate economics and regulatory structure.
- 07Scope DiBS.
- 08Build.
- 09Launch.
- 10Measure.
- 11Repeat.