What it costs,
and how we earn.
Three components, stated in full before you receive a proposal. The one thing we will not do is quote you a fee before we know which model and which city, because the number would be meaningless.
Our fee is not the cost of your business.
These are two entirely separate numbers and confusing them is the fastest way to misjudge this whole proposition.
Establishment cost
Everything it takes to bring the business into existence and to the point of trading. Government and filing fees, professional fees, licence and permit costs, insurance premiums and deposits, technology licences, recruitment, premises deposits, branding and digital build.
This is paid by you, to the providers concerned. We coordinate it, we do not mark it up, and you see the invoices.
Capital deployed into assets
Vehicles, property deposits, opening inventory, and the working capital the business needs to trade through its first months before revenue is collected.
In a rental fleet this is the largest number by a wide margin, and it is excluded from the base on which our setup fee is calculated. We are not paid a percentage of the cars you buy.
A fee charged on asset purchases would pay us more for recommending a bigger fleet than the plan can carry. That is precisely the incentive we have designed out.
How Akontec is paid.
Percentages and amounts are agreed per venture and confirmed in your order form. The structure below does not change.
Setup fee
Charged as a percentage of the establishment cost defined above, with a stated minimum so that small ventures remain viable to deliver. The rate is agreed after the model and city are fixed.
- Asset purchases excluded from the base
- Stated minimum fee applies
- Rate reduces as establishment cost rises
- Staged against delivery milestones
Management fee
A fixed monthly amount covering the operations desk that runs the business after launch. Sized to the actual scope — number of vehicles or accounts, hours of coverage, channels supported — and reviewed annually.
- Covers our delivery cost, not our profit
- Scope defined in a service schedule
- Service credits apply if we miss agreed measures
- Notice period both ways
Profit share
A percentage of net operating profit above a threshold agreed at the outset, calculated annually against a defined expense schedule and an agreed chart of accounts.
- Nothing is due below the threshold
- Expense schedule fixed in advance
- Calculated on audited or agreed accounts
- Fixed term, not perpetual
Specific percentages, minimums and thresholds are set per venture and are not published on this page, because a single published number would be wrong for most readers. They are stated in full in your proposal before you commit to anything, and they do not change afterwards without your written agreement.
The part that needs to be nailed down.
Loose profit-share arrangements are where these relationships break. Ours is defined tightly, in your favour as much as ours.
Net operating profit
Revenue less operating expenses on an agreed schedule. Not gross revenue — we do not get paid when the business loses money. Not a figure we calculate alone — the chart of accounts is fixed at the outset.
Nothing below the hurdle
A profit level is agreed before launch. Below it, no share is payable at all. This exists so that you recover a base return before we participate.
We do not own your company
The share is a contractual right under a management agreement, not shareholding. We do not appear on your ownership register, we do not dilute you, and we have no claim on a sale of the business.
Fixed, with exits
A defined term with performance exit rights on both sides. If we underperform against the service schedule, you can end it. A perpetual claim on a business you paid to build is not something we would ask for.
You see everything
Monthly management accounts, an annual reconciliation, and full access to the underlying records. The calculation is shown, not asserted.
Limits in writing
A delegated authority schedule sets out what we can decide and spend without asking, and what is always reserved to you. Nothing material happens outside it.
How and when the setup fee is paid.
Staged against delivery, with a retention released only after the business is actually trading.
| Stage | Share | Released against |
|---|---|---|
| On signing | 40% | Order form executed, engagement opened, feasibility and city selection begins |
| On formation | 30% | Entity incorporated, tax registrations obtained, licensing applications lodged |
| On readiness | 20% | Insurance bound, technology live, documentation handed over, staff onboarded |
| Retention | 10% | Released 30 days after the business commences trading, against the acceptance criteria stated in your order form |
Paid by you, at cost
Government fees, professional fees, licence costs, insurance premiums, technology licences and recruitment costs are paid by you directly or reimbursed at cost against invoices. We do not mark them up and we do not take commission from providers we introduce you to.
If a provider offers us a referral fee, we tell you and we credit it against your fee. That is written into the agreement.
Exit is defined before you start
If you end the engagement during setup, you pay for stages completed and nothing further. If you end the management agreement after launch, you keep the company, the licences, the vehicles, the technology accounts, every document, and the operating manual.
There is no lock-in mechanism, no ownership of your assets, and no clause that makes leaving expensive. A transition plan is part of the agreement, not something negotiated when the relationship has already soured.
Get the numbers for your venture
Bring your capital range and target market. We will come back with the fee, the establishment budget and the capital requirement, itemised.