Career and NIL literacy — the same knowledge you'd want someone to have handed you earlier in your own career. Advisory only. Never an agent's cut.
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Mentors & Coaches
One destination for the people CFL needs most.
Three seats. One league. Mentors teach career and NIL literacy. Coaches call Game Day readiness. Advisors guide competition teams. Advisory only — not an agent's cut. Hand the knowledge over directly. No fee. No equity. No fine print.
Industry professionalsActive or retired coachesEducational advisorsID required · No equity
Seat one · Career & NIL
Mentor
Industry professionals teaching career and NIL literacy. Advisory only — not an agent's cut. You've already built the career an athlete-founder is trying to understand. Capital Forge League asks you to hand that knowledge over directly — no fee, no equity, no fine print.
Teach what you know. Take none of what they build.
Industry professionalsConnect with athletesTeach career and NIL literacyEducational advisory role only
What advising here actually looks like
Student teams and athlete-founders are close to the work. You're close to industry. That gap is exactly what makes advising useful.
Driver's license or government ID required — the same identity bar as every seat with real influence over a founder's name.
Why mentors matter in this stadium
Real leverage, low lift
Office hours. A call. A review of a pitch before Game Day. You don't need to run the venture to change its trajectory.
No equity, no ambiguity
CFL takes no equity, and neither do you. The advisory line stays clean — you're there to teach, not to earn a slice.
A pipeline of real founders
Every athlete and veteran you advise is building a real venture with real customers on the line — not a class project that ends at graduation.
Ten weeks of coaching. Zero equity in what they build. All the difference you made in your own career.
Join the League → Mentor seatID required. CFL takes no equity.
Seat two · Game Day readiness
Coach
Active or retired coaches who evaluate athletes and call Game Day readiness. You've spent a career reading a team's readiness before the scoreboard confirms it. Capital Forge League asks for exactly that instinct — pointed at six-person ventures instead of a starting lineup.
Same read you've always made. New field to make it on.
Active or retired coachesCall Game Day readinessEvaluate athletes on rosterID required
What the seat actually asks of you
Your studio. Your call. Evaluate the athletes on your roster the same way you always have — film, reps, honest feedback.
Game Day readiness is a coaching read — is this team ready to present what they filed, in the time they have. Not a GPA. Not a valuation.
ID on file before a coach or instructor seat — your evaluation carries weight, so your identity has to be real too.
Why coaches belong on this roster
Coaching, not lecturing
Founders learn the way athletes learn: rep, correction, the next play. You already know how to teach that way — CFL just changes what's being coached.
Real stakes, real feedback
Your read on readiness decides who's taking the field at Game Day. Same weight a game-day call always carried — it just moved from a scoreboard to a stadium.
A roster that respects the work
Six-person labs. Ten-week cycles. A real presentation at the end. Athletes who take your correction seriously because the stakes are real.
Cut, correct, and clear a team for Game Day. Rankings stay educational — your read stays real.
Join the League → Coach seatID on file before a coach or instructor seat.
Seat three · Educational board
Advisor
Educational advisory board and venture advisors who guide competition teams. Distinct from Mentors (career and NIL literacy) and Coaches (Game Day readiness). Advisory only. Flexible. No securities. Networking and recognition — the board seat a six-person lab does not have yet.
Guide the competition. Keep your name off the cap table.
Educational advisory boardGuide competition teamsAdvisory only — no securitiesFlexible · networking + recognition
What the board seat asks
Venture-level judgment — product, market, the next ten weeks — without becoming management. No securities. No deal paper.
Hours that fit a real calendar. Recognition and a network that actually compounds — not a title that sits on a slide.
Same ID bar as every seat with a founder's name attached. The line stays educational.
Why advisors belong here
A third read
Mentors teach the career. Coaches call readiness. Advisors steer the venture itself — the outside board a six-person lab doesn't have yet.
Clean line
CFL takes no equity. Neither do you. The advisory board stays educational — networking and recognition, never a claim on the work.
Recognition that is real
Your name sits with a team that presents in a stadium, not a classroom. Guide the work. Leave it better than you found it.
Guide a competition team. Keep the line clean. Leave the work better than you found it.
Join the League → Advisor seatAdvisory only. No securities. ID required.
ID requiredDriver's license or government ID on file before any seat.
CFL takes no equityNeither does the seat. The advisory line stays clean.
Educational rankingsReadiness reads — not a GPA, not investment advice.
Nonprofit 501(c)(3)Capital Forge League, Inc. Championship competition. Real ventures.
Ready to take a seat?
Three seats. One league. Pick the read you already know how to make — and point it at six-person ventures.