Pace Collective / Prepared for review
What Martin would be paying for, and who he would be paying.
This document is written for the person deciding whether to fund it. It sets out what the work actually is, who is doing it, what has been done before with other people, what is guaranteed in writing, and what is not guaranteed at all.
Written plainly, because the money question deserves a plain answer.
Martin has spent roughly the last 9 months trying to build a business in an industry he learned about from a recorded online course. He has put in the hours and has not made money from it yet.
What he is asking to fund is a fixed period of direct, one to one work with one person who has done this with 387 other people. Martin has a private line to that person every day and a scheduled call with him every week, and every system Martin needs gets built with him on those calls, using his own business as the working example.
The rest of this document covers, in order: what the business actually is in plain terms, why the last 9 months produced nothing, who Elias Müller is and how the company can be checked independently, the results other people have had with their names and their numbers attached, exactly what happens month by month, exactly what Martin receives and keeps, what it costs, and what is honestly not being promised.
There is one thing worth saying at the top. Nowhere in this document is there a promise that Martin will make a specific amount of money by a specific date. That promise is not made because it cannot be kept, and anyone making it should be treated with suspicion.
The job, described without any industry language.
A large number of people now have an audience online. Fitness coaches, business teachers, people who train others in a specific skill. Many of them have tens or hundreds of thousands of people who follow them and pay attention to what they say, and almost no proper way of selling anything to that audience.
What those people are missing is the commercial side of a business. What gets sold, at what price, how someone goes from watching a video to having a conversation, who handles that conversation, what happens to the people who do not buy immediately, and how the whole thing is measured. Building and running that is a real job, and it is the job Martin is training for.
Martin's role sits behind the person on camera. He is paid in two ways: a fee at the start for building the business, and an agreed percentage of what it collects afterwards.
That percentage is what makes this worth doing, because one client built properly keeps paying him for years. The fee at the start matters for a different reason, covered further down, because charging it is one of the specific things Martin was taught to do incorrectly.
The second payment is what turns this into a business with continuing income. A client built properly keeps paying a share for as long as the arrangement runs.
The effort was there, but nobody was ever checking the work.
By his own account, Martin worked around 10 hours a day for the first 6 months and sent 35 to 38 messages a day to potential clients. He signed 2 creators, and neither produced any revenue.
The volume of work was there. What he did not have was anyone checking it, because he was working from pre recorded video lessons, alone, with nobody reviewing what he actually wrote, said, priced or built. When something did not work there was no way to find out why, so the same mistake simply repeated itself for months on end.
Two specific things he was taught are worth naming, because they explain what happened.
He was told to work for free until results arrived.
The advice is meant to make a first client easier to get. In practice it filters for the only people who would ever agree to it, which is people who were never going to take the arrangement seriously, because they have risked nothing by entering it. It also places Martin in the position of a volunteer from the first conversation onward, and that position is very difficult to reverse later.
He was told to stay anonymous and build no public reputation.
Martin described this himself: conversations went well, he sent through his materials, the person seemed interested, and then at the point of arranging a proper meeting they went quiet. That is what happens when there is nothing about a person that a stranger can look up and be reassured by. The person on the other side is deciding whether to hand over part of their business, and they have no way to judge who they are handing it to.
This is the ordinary outcome of trying to learn a commercial skill from recorded video with nobody correcting you along the way, and it says nothing about how capable Martin is. The same thing happened to the person he is now proposing to work with, which is covered next.
Elias Müller, and how he arrived at this.
He grew up in a town of about 4,000 people, an hour and a half outside Munich, and nobody in his family had ever run a business. He worked minimum wage jobs, including a summer as a lifeguard, and spent those shifts listening to podcasts and audiobooks about business because there was nothing else to do while watching a pool.
He registered his company on 1 September 2022. The first thing he ever bought was a recorded online course for 1,500 euros, and it made him nothing. He then bought a second one for 1,600 euros, and a third coaching product for 1,000 euros, and spent everything he had ever saved. He had still not earned a single euro.
What changed it was paying one person for their direct attention. He had roughly 4,000 euros left and spent 10,000 euros on one to one coaching, which put him about 6,000 euros in debt to do it. Within two months he had his first paying clients: an estate agent in Boston who paid him 600 dollars up front, then a second at 1,500 dollars, then a third at 300 dollars. The amounts were small, and they were the first he had ever been paid for this kind of work.
Since then he has built three separate businesses past 60,000 dollars a month in profit, has put more than 90,000 euros of his own money into his own mentors and coaches, and has worked one to one with 387 clients.
Why this is in the document
Martin has already bought a recorded course and it produced nothing. It is reasonable to ask why this would be different, and the honest answer is that the same thing happened to Elias. He bought three recorded products and made nothing from any of them. What changed his position was paying for one person's direct and repeated attention on his specific situation. That is the product being funded here, and it is the only reason this document draws the distinction at all.
The company
| Trading name | Pace Collective |
| Operating since | 1 September 2022 |
| Clients worked with | 387, all one to one |
| Contracting entity | EAL Digital, Fichtenstraße 7a, 84098 Hohenthann, Germany |
| German tax number | 132/253/00474 |
| Based in | Munich, Germany |
The team
The consulting work itself is done by Elias personally and is not delegated. The rest of the team runs the company around it.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Elias Müller | Founder. Delivers all one to one client work personally. |
| Nikita | Triage and qualification |
| Alex | Triage and qualification |
| Aziz | Triage and qualification |
| Illya | Head of marketing |
| Niko | Head of long form |
| Konstantinos | Sales manager |
| Khoi | Sales manager |
| Mark | Lead research |
Check any of this independently
None of the above needs to be taken on trust, because all of it is public.
- Company website: pacecollective.io
- YouTube: youtube.com/@Eliasmueller.
- Instagram: instagram.com/eliasmuellersp
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elias-müller-a15213290
Other people, with their names and their numbers attached.
Everything in this section can be checked. The case studies below are filmed interviews with the actual people, published publicly, and they can be watched in full without asking anyone's permission.
Filmed interviews, published publicly
| Case study | Watch |
|---|---|
| Speedrunning an agency from 0 to 10,000 dollars a month in 47 days | youtu.be/_HRxBbKtKYI |
| Andre Knox closing a 10,000 dollar deal paid in full in 4 weeks, from complete zero | youtu.be/DmQam-Zwp1g |
| Sufyan going from 10,000 to 50,000 dollars a month in profit in 4 weeks | youtu.be/d_ybyS8zBJA |
| Making a client 120,000 dollars in 7 days, and taking home 30,000 dollars profit | youtu.be/tE5mmy8eZFs |
| Running an influencer's digital products at 32,000 dollars a month | youtu.be/H90rrrzkZNo |
The Sufyan interview above was filmed 4 weeks into the work, at 50,000 dollars a month in profit. He went on to 200,000 dollars a month. The video shows the earlier figure because that is where he was on the day it was recorded.
Results
| Client | Result |
|---|---|
| Sean | 0 to 158,000 dollars a month collected, at over 100,000 dollars a month profit, between December 2025 and July 2026 |
| Sufyan | 10,000 to 200,000 dollars a month |
| Alex | 0 to over 1,000,000 dollars a month across 2 years |
| Andre Knox | First deal closed at 10,000 dollars paid in full, within 4 weeks, starting from nothing |
| Samu | First long form video ever published. 200 views, and 12 people messaging him directly asking to work with him |
| Confidential | NZ$41,660 in the preceding period, to NZ$2.26M processed across the 10 months to November 2025 |
Figures are stated in each client's own currency. Across 387 clients, 2 have passed 1,000,000 dollars a month and more than 10 have passed multiple six figures a month, all in profit. The large majority started from zero, exactly as Martin is starting.
Scandinavia
Two points that are specifically relevant here.
- Jacob, in Denmark. Went from 0 to 10,000 dollars a month in 6 weeks.
- Benjamin, in Norway. Currently working with Elias one to one.
If it would help to speak to either of them directly, that can be asked. Neither has been asked yet and neither is under any obligation, so it is not being offered as a certainty.
A note on how these numbers should be read
These are the results of specific people who did the work, and they should be read as exactly that. No claim is made that they are average, typical, or any indication of what Martin will earn. They are included because the question being answered is whether this company has actually produced results for anybody, and the honest answer to that is yes, for these people, by name, on camera.
What actually happens, month by month.
The same infrastructure gets built regardless of how long the arrangement runs. What a longer term buys is more cycles of reviewing and correcting that work once it exists, and those correction cycles are where a system starts actually producing revenue.
- Positioning. Who Martin serves, what he is known for, and why a creator would choose him over anyone else.
- The offer and the pricing structure, including what he charges up front and what share he takes afterwards.
- The outreach system, replacing the approach of sending 35 personalised messages a day by hand.
- His public presence and content, so that a creator has already formed an opinion of him before the first conversation ever happens.
- The sales process itself. How the conversation is structured, what gets asked, how the price is presented, and how the arrangement is closed.
- Signing creators under a proper written agreement with money paid before work begins.
- Building the back end for those clients: the sales systems, the tracking, and the launch infrastructure.
- Running actual launches for the creators he has signed, which is where the revenue share begins.
- Reviewing what worked, correcting what did not, and repeating it. This is the part that a 3 month arrangement does not reach.
What Martin is being trained to charge
The model taught here charges a fee before any work begins, typically in the region of 5,000 to 10,000 euros for a first client, plus an agreed percentage of what that client's business collects afterwards.
That figure is included so the cost of this arrangement can be read against what it is training him to do, and it is not a prediction of his earnings. This document does not claim that Martin will sign a client, and does not claim when. It states what the model is and what other people have done with it.
The specific mechanics, so this can be compared against a course honestly.
The clearest way to answer whether someone is going to be left alone with a video library is to write down exactly how much contact there is and what form it takes.
- Weekly call
- One scheduled call with Elias personally, every single week, for the entire term. Typically 20 to 60 minutes, occasionally up to 90 minutes. The length is set by what needs solving that week.
- Daily contact
- A private Telegram channel directly with Elias. He replies a minimum of once every day, and in practice 2 to 3 times a day. Martin can raise a problem on the day it appears and get an answer the same day.
- Who delivers it
- Elias personally, on every call, for the whole term. The work is never passed down to a coach or an account manager.
- Recording
- Every call is recorded and documented, and Martin keeps the recordings.
- System library
- The full library of written standard operating procedures covering each part of the business.
- Outreach scripts
- The actual scripts and message sequences used to approach and convert creators.
- Offer frameworks
- The structures used to build and price what a creator sells to their audience.
- Launch playbooks
- The step by step process for running a launch, which is where a creator's revenue is actually produced.
- Legal templates
- Including the growth operating agreement Martin uses to contract his own creators, so that his own arrangements are documented and his fee and percentage are enforceable.
- Platform access
- Access to the client portal where the above is held.
- After the term ends
- Martin keeps all of it permanently. The systems, the documents, the templates and the call recordings remain his after the arrangement finishes.
His side of it, stated plainly.
This only works if Martin treats it as work he has to do himself. The following is what is expected of him.
- Attendance. He turns up to the weekly call, every week, prepared, having done what was agreed the week before.
- Execution. He implements what is agreed. The systems are worth nothing sitting unused.
- Honesty about what is not working. The daily channel only helps if he uses it on the days something goes wrong.
- Consistency held across the full term. The most common reason this fails for anybody is that they stop shortly before it starts to work.
On time, this fits inside the hours he already has available. Martin currently has 5 to 6 hours a day outside his employment, which is more than enough. Nothing in this requires him to leave his job, and it is not designed on the assumption that he will.
Three lengths, and what separates them.
The same work is delivered in each. A longer term means more weeks of review and correction, which is where most of the value sits.
€7,200
approximately 84,000 NOK
- Approximately 13 weekly one to one calls
- Daily access throughout
- Reaches the point of signing clients and building their back end
- Effectively 2,400 euros per month
€9,600
approximately 112,000 NOK
- Approximately 17 weekly one to one calls
- Daily access throughout
- Adds the first launches, where a revenue share begins
- Effectively 2,400 euros per month
€12,000
approximately 140,000 NOK
- Approximately 26 weekly one to one calls
- Daily access throughout
- Covers launches, correction and repetition, which is the part that compounds
- Effectively 2,000 euros per month, the lowest of the three
Norwegian krone figures are indicative, converted at roughly 11.7 NOK to the euro. The exact amount depends on the rate on the day of payment. The 6 month option is recommended for one reason only, which is that the work reaches the part where launches are run and then corrected. A shorter term is a perfectly reasonable decision, and the choice should be made on what is genuinely affordable.
The terms, in full, with nothing held back for later.
- Term
- 3, 4 or 6 months from the start date, whichever is chosen.
- Fee
- As set out in section 08, paid to begin.
- Invoicing
- Invoiced by EAL Digital, Fichtenstraße 7a, 84098 Hohenthann, Germany. German tax number 132/253/00474.
- VAT
- Reverse charge applies, as Martin is contracting from outside the European Union. No German VAT is added to the invoice.
- Revenue share to Pace Collective
- None. Pace Collective takes no percentage of anything Martin earns. The fee is the entire commercial relationship, and everything he makes afterwards is his.
- Ownership of materials
- All systems, documents, templates and recordings remain with Martin permanently, including after the term ends.
- Written contract
- A written agreement is signed by both parties before the work begins. It is available to read in full before anything is paid.
Stated directly, because the alternative is worse.
Anyone in this industry who guarantees an income is either inexperienced or dishonest. The following is what is not on offer.
- No income guarantee. There is no promise that Martin earns a particular amount, and no promise that he earns anything at all.
- No promise about timing. This document deliberately makes no claim about when a first client is signed or when the first money arrives. Those timelines vary enormously between people and any figure given here would be a guess presented as a fact.
- No refund. The fee is not refundable. The work is a fixed period of one person's time, and that time cannot be recovered once it has been given.
- No transfer of responsibility. Nobody can do this on Martin's behalf. If he does not do the work, no amount of systems, calls or access will produce a result.
What is guaranteed
Every one of the following is entirely within Elias's control to keep, which is why it can be committed to in writing.
- The weekly call happens, every week, with Elias personally, for the full term.
- The daily channel is answered a minimum of once per day for the full term.
- The systems, documents and templates are handed over and built alongside him.
- All of it remains Martin's permanently after the term ends.
The honest assessment
The genuine variable in this is whether Martin holds a consistent standard of work across the full term, particularly during the period before anything is visibly working. That is the point at which most people stop.
He has already demonstrated the harder half of this. He worked 10 hours a day for 6 months on a method that was never going to work, and he did not stop. That kind of persistence cannot be taught into somebody who does not already have it. The direction it gets pointed in can be taught, and that is the whole of what is being paid for here.
Check whatever needs checking, then decide.
- Read through it and mark anything that is unclear or that you disagree with.This document has been written to be checked. Every claim in it is either verifiable publicly or stated as an opinion.
- Verify anything you want to verify.The company details, the website, the filmed case studies and the public profiles are all listed in section 03 and section 04. None of it requires anyone's permission to look at.
- Decide on the term.3, 4 or 6 months, decided on what is genuinely affordable.
- Ask any remaining questions.If it would be useful to speak to Elias directly and put questions to him, he is happy to join a call at any point. It is not a required step.
Martin can be reached directly, and the company can be reached at pacecollective.io.