SIX WEEKS TO RESET YOUR SALES RESULTS
Selling in 2026 is Hard. TrustForge Makes it Easy Again.
The Growth Ceiling you’re facing right now isn’t happening because you got worse at delivering value for your clients; it’s happening because the way your best clients buy knowledge, advice, and expertise has fundamentally shifted.
TrustForge redesigns your offer, your pricing, and the client experience for the market that exists right now, so you can regain the momentum you’ve lost, without having to turn your business into something it’s not just to survive.
Registration open through July 22. Only 15 Spots.
REVENUE ACCELERATOR built from
TRUST-MADE GROWTH®
Founder, Nick Richtsmeier, explains how Trust-Made Growth solves for the sales resistance baked into our broken economy.
a Workshop for sellers of expertise
TrustForge is for you if you've said:
TrustForge is built for professionals selling knowledge, advice, creativity, or expertise — consultants, fractional executives, agency owners, coaches, and independent specialists in the $500K–$3M revenue range — who know their work is good and are ready to uplevel their service offering for how their clients are buying in 2026.
"Can't recommend TrustForge enough."
"We needed a new offering to build customer trust in a highly skeptical market. TrustForge provided the perfect environment for this work. With Nick's help, we built an offer that gives customers a ton of value upfront. We're having much more meaningful sales conversations, establishing our expertise long before any contract is signed, and cutting our time to close in half. Can't recommend TrustForge enough."
Lauren Lang
UplevelTeam.com
TURNs GROWTH RESISTANCE INTO REAL REVENUE
Join the August 2026 Cohort
TrustForge™ is our introductory workshop based on CultureCraft® Founder Nick Richtsmeier’s over 20 years of work within complex organizations across industries, from startups all the way to managing $200M wealth funds.
This is the same methodology we've deployed with firms spending $25,000–$60,000 for individual engagements. We run cohorts at this price specifically to make this level of working session available to professionals and small firms who are doing great work and deserve a chance to succeed in today’s competitive market, but for who do not have the complexity required to work with us on a deeper, more long-term basis.
TrustForge
- Offer Design: Entry-level Offer + Pricing Structure
- Proposal + Presentation Structure
- Onboarding Experience Design
- Referral Prompt for Getting Clients
- Live Sales Training with Nick Richtsmeier
- Weekly Live Group Coaching Calls with Nick Richtsmeier
- Two 1:1 Coaching Calls with Nick Richtsmeier
July 21 - September 4, 2026
The 6-Week Schedule
Growing Past Sales Resistance to Getting Consistent Revenue
What you can expect from TrustForge August 2026
Weekly LIVE Training Sessions on Positioning, Offer Design, and Sales
Every week, we're teaching and coaching on how to apply our proven Trust-made Growth® approach to your consultative offering and sales process. You'll also get access to the recordings in case you miss a session.
Offer Co-Creation which Builds Real and Tangible Outcomes from the Start
Structured assignments apply the session topics to your consulting business, with feedback from Nick and the CultureCraft® team.
Collaborative, Growth-Oriented Community
Connect with other solos and small practices who are improving their offers and testing these principles alongside you, giving you the start of a referral network you can build on.
1:1 Coaching with CultureCraft® Founder & Growth Strategist Nick Richtsmeier
When you're ready, you'll get two 1:1 coaching calls with Nick to further refine your offer, hone your sales skills, and get unstuck.
What's TrustForge About?
Trust-Made Growth® strategist Katie Lukashow shares what TrustForge is about and what benefits our 6-week revenue intensive brings to growing consultancies.
Smart Questions from Smart Consultants
TrustForge 2026 FAQs
In short, if you're struggling with sales, then it means that what you're doing right now isn't working. And after speaking with many consultants over the past year, we've come to realize that this is a common problem.
We knew we couldn't just stop at improving your offer—we had to teach you how to sell, too.
That's why improving how you approach and facilitate sales conversations without breaking trust is baked into the TrustForge training.
You'll Get:
- Sales resistance testing at every stage of the offer and CX
- Direct training on how to structure delivery, diagnosis, presenting options, and surfacing resistance before it happens
- Insights on when and how to raise your pricing
- Guidance on what you need from your prospect so they are bought in by the time you present your solution
And all of it is calibrated to your specific offer.
Nick Richtsmeier
Founder and Lead Strategist
A Personal Invitation
You can and must escape the extractive economy killing your offer.
Everything around your offer, including most of the marketing and sales advice your getting is demanding your build fragile short-term solutions on rented land. From AI to SEO to everything in between. But the heart of what makes a sale is an OFFER. A gift to the right people in the right place at the right time. Presented and marketed in a way that answers a question they already have with a clarity they are willing to trust and take a risk on.
99% of offers are not built this way. And they're definitely not sold this way. Yours has to be. Unless you've got hundreds of thousands of dollars for digital advertising or an existing massive personal or professional brand, your only option is radical clarity and focus, designed and sold for the economy and market that exists now.
TrustForge is my workhorse of an intensive to take you to that clarity. Not with recorded trainings. Not with email sequences. Not with decks and to-dos. With rolled up sleeves. My passionate obsession about delivering value in a trust-made way people will pay for. And, not as a side benefit, a couple decades of expertise in doing this across economic backdrops.
Don't let someone else take your seat.
Everything included in your enrollment in trustforge
What You'll Have by September 2026
At the core of TrustForge is an offer you'll feel confident promoting that's priced and packaged in a way that's aligned with the value you bring to the table. This is what we'll be doing in Phase 1 (weeks 1-3).
You'll come out of Phase 1 with:
- A named, consultative offer that's unique to you, the value you provide, and the clients you work with best
- A service package that doesn't rely on you billing for time/presence
- Clarity on why what you've been doing so far hasn't gotten you consistent sales
- A clear articulation of the problem you solve in your client's language, not yours