12 months of coaching.
One outcome.
We don't stop until they win.
We don't sell programs. We sell outcomes. If your kid completes the Narrative Placement Program™ and doesn't have a job offer within 12 months, we keep coaching for free until they do, and we don't collect the second half of our fee until they win. No arguments. No forms. No asterisk.
Plenty of people with advanced degrees never out-earn a typical bachelor's grad. A degree guarantees nothing. We guarantee a job offer — or we keep coaching, free.
A guaranteed job offer.
A job offer in hand, or we keep coaching.
The guarantee applies to the Narrative Placement Program™ — the intensive, 12-month commitment built to land a job offer.
A real job offer. A real role. Or we don’t stop.
Not a callback. Not a “promising conversation.” A written offer for a paid position that your kid chooses to accept or decline. If they complete the program, stay active in their 12-month coaching window, and don't receive one — we keep coaching for free until they do.
Note: the Clarity Sprint is the 3-day first step and doesn't carry this guarantee — its outcome is a written direction, not a placement. See the Clarity Sprint →
Three things. All reasonable.
The guarantee isn't unconditional — it requires your kid to do the work. Here's what that actually means.
Complete every phase.
Attend every session. Submit every deliverable. Each phase has a specific output that gates the next chapter — your kid shows up, does the work, and moves forward.
Stay active in the 12-month window.
Book conversations. Send outreach. Go to interviews. Pitch prospects. The guarantee covers active pursuit — not passive waiting. Your coach sets the cadence, tracks the activity, and holds them to it.
Don't go dark.
If your kid stops engaging — misses coaching sessions, stops outreach, goes silent — the guarantee pauses. Re-engage, and it picks back up. We're not looking for a reason to stop coaching. We're looking for a reason to keep going until they win.
A note on the terms: We wrote these conditions to be honest, not to give ourselves an excuse to stop. We expect to honor this guarantee zero times — because the program works when the student works. If you feel we haven't held up our end, reach out directly. We'll make it right.
We don't get paid until they win.
There's one payment due today: your $7,500 up front. Your kid pays nothing — $0 — until they actually land a paid job.
Their half comes out of that first paycheck — never before. If they haven't landed it by month 12, we don't charge them and we don't stop. We keep coaching for free until they win, and the second $7,500 stays uncollected until they do.
That means half our fee is riding on the result. Our incentive is exactly the same as yours — your kid's win.
The guarantee is real because the system is real.
Every session has a deliverable.
Not a workbook exercise. Not a reflection prompt. A specific, coachable output that moves your kid forward — and that we can measure, review, and hold them to.
The 12 months is real coaching.
Not a login to a portal. Not an email sequence. Ongoing sessions, real feedback, and active accountability from the same coach who ran the intensive. We stay in it.
We have skin in the game.
The payment structure is intentional. You pay to start. Your kid pays from their outcome. That means we don't get paid in full until they win. Our incentive is exactly aligned with yours.
We've built this to work.
The framework behind Narrative has driven over $28M in sales outcomes. The same story-first methodology that wins enterprise deals is what we're teaching 16–21-year-olds to use in interviews and pitch rooms.
One email. We keep going.
If 12 months have passed, your kid has done the work, and they don't have their outcome — email us at hello@thenarrativeacademy.com.
We review the account, confirm the activity, and keep coaching at no additional cost until they land it. The second $7,500 stays uncollected until they win. No forms, no escalation process, no “let us look into it” runaround.
We've never had to extend it past 12 months. We don't expect to. But it's real — because we built it to be.
The guarantee is real. The program is real. The only question is when you start.