Search fractional advisor agreement template and every result solves the same problem: what tier, what percentage, what vesting, what cliff. The Founder Institute's FAST Agreement, an advisor-agreement generator, a law firm's sample grant, all of them stop at the paperwork. None says what happens between the signature and the day that cliff or that fee renewal actually arrives, because none of them logs anything in between. A relationship graded on impression rather than a record produces the same argument every time: one side remembers effort, the other remembers gaps.
This pack borrows the cliff from the FAST Agreement: a Seed-stage company granting an Expert-tier advisor 0.75% of fully diluted shares, vesting monthly with nothing before month three. The Founder Institute says the cliff lets an unproductive relationship end without owing equity, and never defines unproductive. A fee-based role has the same blank on a shorter clock, and the IRS's common law test is why its hours are a range, not a company-set schedule. The Value Log fills what both leave open: one dated row per commitment, the day it is kept or missed.
At Thaxby Robotics, advisor Ines Callaghan held all three committed Q1 calls but delivered only one of two promised introductions, 80% of her combined commitments, logged the day each one resolved. Fractional CFO Marcus Feldman billed 54 hours against a 45-to-60-hour quarterly range, shipped his February board package four days late and his cash forecast six days late, and closed the quarter 18 of 24 items through the data room checklist. Neither number decided anything alone. Both became the evidence the review needed, the same discipline behind a coaching practice's own renewal tracker.
Fractional Advisor Agreement Template