From “no idea” to a job offer. Built in weeks, backed for 12 months.

The average four-year public university costs $108,000 — tuition, room, board, and fees combined. Private schools run closer to $240,000. At the end, your kid gets a degree that proves they attended. No job guarantee. No accountability. Just debt and hope.

And tuition is the smaller cost. The bigger one is the four years of income and real-world experience your kid gives up to earn the degree — time they never get back.

And the debt compounds: borrow $250,000 at today's grad-loan rates and a 20-year plan, and you can repay well over $400,000 — and student debt is nearly impossible to discharge in bankruptcy.

Narrative costs $15,000. Your kid pays half from their first paycheck. If they don't get a job offer, you get every dollar back. The math isn't close.

That's the most common starting point. Most kids aren't unmotivated — they're stuck. They apply and hear nothing. They don't know how to talk about themselves. They have no system and no proof anything is working.

Motivation follows traction. When the first outreach message gets a reply, when a coach tells them their story actually lands — that's when it shifts. We build the system. The motivation follows.

Less than you'd expect. This is coach-led by design. Your kid works directly with their coach on the outreach, the interviews, and the deliverables — you don't have to project-manage it, chase them down, or become the bad guy.

Your job is to get them in the room and then get out of the way. Get them started, and let the coach hold them accountable week to week. The parents who try to run it alongside us usually just add pressure; the ones who step back watch their kid take ownership faster.

The Clarity Sprint is three focused days — a couple of hours each. The Build that follows runs a few hours a week. Both are designed to fit around school, sports, or a part-time job — not replace them. Most kids run it without dropping anything.

After that, coaching settles into a steady cadence your coach sets with them: enough to keep outreach and interviews moving, light enough to sustain for a full year. The work is real, but it's designed for a teenager's actual schedule.

Most programs teach tactics in a classroom and call it career prep. Narrative is built around one thing: a real outcome, with a real deadline, coached by the same person from week one to offer day.

Every session has a deliverable. Every deliverable gates the next chapter. And if after a full year of coaching they don't have a job offer, we keep coaching for free until they do — and we don't collect the second half of our fee until they win. We're not invested in effort. We're invested in results.

Complete every phase, submit every deliverable, and stay active in the 12-month coaching window — booking conversations, sending outreach, going to interviews. Do that, and if there's no job offer, we keep coaching for free until there is.

The conditions are straightforward because the program works when the student works. We're not looking for a reason to stop coaching. We're looking for a reason to keep going until they win.