Our underwriting discipline, applied to your deals.
Dissonant Capital Advisory extends the same market-screening and underwriting process behind Resolve Fund I and Cadence Fund I to outside investors, operators, and family offices who want that discipline applied to their own markets and deals, without building an underwriting function from scratch.
Scoped engagements, not a retainer by default.
Every engagement starts with a call. We scope the work to what you actually need, project-based or ongoing, and send a fixed quote before anything is billed. Pricing below is a starting point, not a self-checkout price.
Market Screening Engagement
We run your target market, or a shortlist of markets, through the same three-signal framework we use internally: population growth, job growth, and migration, and tell you where the data supports the thesis and where it doesn't.
- Full data pull and scoring against our four-criteria framework, for each market in scope.
- A written readout: where the data supports the thesis, where it's mixed, and where we'd pass.
- A working session to walk through the findings and answer questions.
- Operators evaluating a new market before committing site-selection time.
- Family offices building their own screening process.
- Anyone who wants a second, data-driven opinion before trusting the narrative.
Underwriting & Diligence Review
A second set of eyes on a deal you're about to close: your model, your comps, your assumptions. We stress-test it the way we'd underwrite it ourselves before committing our own capital.
- Line-by-line review of your financial model and underlying assumptions.
- Independent comparable-property and market-data check.
- A written risk memo: what we'd flag before you sign.
- Investors and operators about to close a deal and wanting an outside check.
- Lenders and JV partners doing their own diligence on a sponsor's model.
- Anyone whose in-house underwriting bandwidth is stretched thin.
Ongoing Advisory Retainer
Continued access for a fund, operator, or family office building out its own underwriting practice: standing office hours, deal-by-deal input, and help building the internal process, not just a one-time report.
- Recurring working sessions, scoped to your deal pipeline.
- Direct access for deal-by-deal questions as they come up.
- Help building your own screening and underwriting process, templates included.
- Funds and operators scaling deal volume faster than their underwriting bench.
- Family offices standing up a real estate program from scratch.
- Anyone who'd rather borrow our discipline than build it alone.
Prefer to learn the framework yourself instead of hiring it out? See Dissonant University.
The same screens we run on our own capital.
Every Advisory engagement uses the process documented on this site. Markets are screened on population growth, job growth, and migration data and scored against the four criteria on our homepage. Deals are reviewed with the site level diligence described in How We Underwrite, the same work we do before any acquisition of our own.
If you want to see how we think before you call, our Market Data pages publish the numbers for each metro we track, including the ones where population and jobs pull in different directions, and our Field Notes show the reasoning market by market.
Advisory is led by Daniel Kaufman, who has spent more than 25 years as a real estate operator acquiring, developing, financing, and managing real estate.
What people ask before hiring us.
What does real estate advisory from Dissonant Capital cost?
Engagements start at $5,000 for a Market Screening Engagement, $7,500 for an Underwriting & Diligence Review, and $3,500 per month for an Ongoing Advisory Retainer. Those are starting points, not checkout prices. Every engagement is scoped on a call and quoted as a fixed price before anything is billed.
What is included in an underwriting and diligence review?
A line by line review of your financial model and the assumptions underneath it, an independent check of comparable properties and market data, and a written risk memo covering what we would flag before you sign. It is the same stress test we run before committing our own capital.
Who is Advisory a good fit for?
Operators evaluating a new market, family offices building or formalizing a real estate program, lenders and JV partners checking a sponsor’s model, and funds whose deal flow has outgrown their underwriting bench.
Can you screen a market you do not track yourselves?
Yes. A Market Screening Engagement runs your target market, or a shortlist of markets, through the same framework we use internally, whether or not it appears on our Market Data pages. You get a written readout of where the data supports the thesis, where it is mixed, and where we would pass.
How does an engagement start?
Tell us what you are working on through the form below or book a call. We scope the work, send a fixed quote or retainer proposal, and once you approve it we send a secure invoice. Work begins after that is paid.
Does hiring Advisory give me access to Dissonant Capital’s funds?
No. Advisory is a fee for service consulting offering of Dissonant Capital LLC, separate from Resolve Fund I, Cadence Fund I, and any investment vehicle we manage. It does not create any right to invest and is not part of our investor credentialing process.
Is Advisory work investment advice?
No. Advisory output reflects our own judgment and process. It is not individualized investment, legal, or tax advice, and you remain responsible for your own investment decisions.
Tell us what you're working on.
Here's exactly how it works, start to finish:
- Inquire. Tell us what you're working on below, or book a call directly.
- Scope & quote. We propose a fixed engagement price or retainer based on what you actually need.
- Invoice & kickoff. Once you approve the scope, we send a secure invoice. Work begins after that's paid.
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Submitting this form sends your information directly and privately to our team, starts a scoping conversation, and is not itself a contract or a charge. No payment is collected through this form.
Dissonant Capital Advisory is a fee-for-service consulting offering of Dissonant Capital LLC, separate from Resolve Fund I, Cadence Fund I, and any investment vehicle Dissonant Capital manages. Engaging Advisory does not create any right to invest in a Dissonant Capital fund and is not evaluated as part of our investor credentialing process. Pricing shown here is illustrative starting-point pricing; every engagement is scoped and quoted individually before work begins. Advisory output, market screens, underwriting reviews, and related work product, reflects our own judgment and process; it is not individualized investment, legal, or tax advice, and clients remain responsible for their own investment decisions.