Coach Nic DC  ·  Washington DC  ·  June 24–26, 2026

Gap Closers

The 3-Day Revenue, Capital & Connection Intensive

“Close the gaps. Grow the revenue. Get the capital. Access the room.”

LocationWashington DC  ·  In-Person
DatesJune 24–26, 2026
HoursDay 1: 12–5 PM  ·  Days 2–3: 9:30 AM–4 PM ET
Day 3VIP Pitch Room Only  ·  9:30 AM–4 PM ET
Meet the Faculty
Coach Nic — Gap Closers Faculty
Tonya Rutherford — Gap Closers Faculty
Dr. Jeff Bullock — Gap Closers Faculty
Loren Robinson — Gap Closers Faculty
Coach Nic
Lead Faculty  ·  Performance Gap Closer
“Your gift will make room in the marketplace, but performance management will keep you there.”
29
Years of methodology
3,600+
Businesses transformed
4
Expert gap closers
1
Integrated methodology
What Gap Closers™ Is

Most business events give you information.
Gap Closers™ gives you transformation.

You bring your real business challenges. Four expert faculty diagnose the exact root causes blocking your results, close them with you in real time, and position you to stand in front of investors and super connectors. Three days. One transformation. The methodology is 29 years old. The results are documented.

Every other event

Four hours of slides. Motivational content. A workbook you’ll never open. You go home knowing more about your problem and no closer to solving it. You’ve heard that story before.

Gap Closers™

Three days of live diagnostic work. Gap profile built Day 1. Gaps closed Day 2. VIP attendees pitch to confirmed investors and super connectors on Day 3. General Admission: Days 1 and 2. Your gaps, found and closed. Done.

You bring the real problem

Every attendee submits their actual revenue challenge, funding situation, and network gap before Day 1. Faculty review every submission in advance. Day 1 begins with precision — not introductions.

The app runs the whole thing

Every attendee gets three months of Sales Gap Finder™ Solo access (a $497 value) included with their ticket. They enter their business data before Day 1. Four faculty work from that live data across two days. The app is not being demonstrated — it is the operating system.

The 3-Day Journey

A working Intensive.
Three days. One transformation.

This is not a lecture series. We identify the gaps blocking your business, build the systems and solutions to close them, implement those solutions with you in real time, and connect you with the capital and relationships that scale what you build. All in three days.

01
Day 1  ·  June 24  ·  12:00 PM – 5:00 PM  ·  All Attendees

Find the Gaps

Diagnostic deep-dive across all five dimensions of the BAPSC™ framework — Behavior, Attitude, Product & Service, Systems, and Customer Voice. Coach Nic leads the diagnostic. Loren surfaces the customer truth. Nia maps the relationship gaps. Every attendee leaves Day 1 with a written Gap Profile: the exact root causes blocking their results.

General Admission & VIP
02
Day 2  ·  June 25  ·  All Attendees

Close the Gaps

Facilitated coaching and hands-on gap closing. Loren diagnoses customer spending gaps and prescribes the communication systems to fix them. Nia maps relationship gaps and shows how strategic networking drives new leads, prospects, and capital. Dr. Jeff goes last — always — and builds the AI execution tools to implement every solution surfaced by the other three faculty. Attendees leave Day 2 with systems already running.

General Admission & VIP
03
Day 3  ·  June 26  ·  VIP Only

Pitch for the Money and/or Access

VIP ticket holders pitch to confirmed investors and super connectors on Day 3 — and receive a private 1:1 coaching session with the faculty expert of their choosing, scheduled post-event. General Admission attendees go home after Day 2 with their gaps closed and their plan in motion.

VIP Ticket Required
Day 3  ·  VIP

The room most
entrepreneurs never
get near.

The Gap Closers™ Pitch Room is why people travel to Washington DC for this event. Confirmed investors and super connectors receive every VIP attendee’s video profile and business data before Day 3. They arrive knowing your business before you say a word.

This is not a cold room. This is a prepared room built from two days of diagnostic work. One pitch reaches everyone — investors and super connectors are in the same room, because some are both simultaneously.

Why the video profile matters

Earlier you register, the longer investors and connectors have to review your profile, watch your video, and identify the businesses they most want to meet. Register early. The preparation advantage is real.

Investors
Capital, In Every Form It Comes

The room is built for the full capital spectrum: angels investing equity for impact, foundation and capital partners deploying non-dilutive funding, and debt-side capital from CDFI and bank cohort partners. One room, every type of yes — matched to the kind of business you actually run.

“Some are angels. Some are foundations. Some are lenders. The right fit closes the gap — not the label on the check.” — Coach Nic
Super Connectors
Doors That Change Everything

Elite networkers with access to high-value opportunities that most entrepreneurs will never reach on their own. The right introduction can outperform a check. Super connectors invest in relationships, not just businesses. Even if no direct deal is made, every attendee receives expert feedback on their pitch — which may lead to investment and or direct connections.

The Day 3 Roster

Confirmed Pitch Room Lineup

The room you walk into on Day 3. Super connectors, investors, and capital partners across every track of capital — one pitch reaches all of them.

2
ConfirmedMore to Come
TBA
Investor
To Be Announced
Equity & Non-Dilutive Capital

Equity-side investors and non-dilutive capital partners for businesses ready to scale with growth-stage funding and foundation-backed support.

TBA
Investor
To Be Announced
Debt & Lending Partners

CDFI representatives, SBA-aligned lenders, and bank cohort partners for businesses scaling with strategic debt-side capital.

Faculty Lineup

Four Gap Closers.
One unified methodology.

Each faculty expert owns one dimension of the BAPSC™ diagnostic. Together they cover every root cause blocking your results — from customer behavior to AI execution to strategic networking. You get the methodology, not just the motivation.

Coach Nic
Coach Nic
Performance Management Expert, Business Coach, Speaker & Facilitator  ·  National
Performance Gap Closer
You’ve outgrown trial-and-error. Every month you guess is a month you bleed.
One client came in at $1,500 a month, on the verge of going back to corporate America. A couple months later: five-figure monthly revenue. 29+ years closing revenue gaps for 3,600+ entrepreneurs across small business, corporate, and government. Built the BAPSC™ methodology and the Sales Gap Finder™ — the operating system powering this Intensive.

Nic Colbert, aka Coach Nic, is the Chairman and Chief Coach of Coach Nic DC, a Washington DC–based performance management coaching firm. For over 29 years, he has coached more than 3,600 entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporate executives, and government leaders, applying the BAPSC™ Gap Management Methodology to identify root causes and drive measurable, lasting transformation. A Verizon Small Business Digital Ready instructor and CBE Certified professional, Coach Nic has built proprietary performance management systems — including the Sales Gap Finder™ — that help business owners close the gaps between where they are and where they are destined to be. His calling: to lead and develop multiple generations of entrepreneurs and leaders around the world who make people’s everyday lives better while making a profit.

Gap Finder Role

Leads the BAPSC™ full diagnostic across all five performance dimensions. Provides the SGF infrastructure every other faculty member operates within. Holds the diagnostic spine from Day 1 through Day 3. Converts overall analysis and solutions into action plans anchored by performance metrics.

“Your gift will make room in the marketplace, but performance management will keep you there.”
Tonya Rutherford (aka Nia Ford)
Tonya Rutherford (aka Nia Ford)
Legacy & Networking Coach, Speaker & Facilitator  ·  National
Network Gap Closer
The deals you need are being made in rooms you’re not in.
20+ years negotiating high-stakes deals at the Fortune 10 level, in federal regulatory work, and at elite law firms — Tonya opens the rooms cold outreach can’t crack.

With decades of experience as a lawyer, entrepreneur, and leader — including serving as Former Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at a Fortune 50 Company — Tonya Rutherford, aka Nia Ford, brings both a grounded presence and a transformational lens to her work. A Legacy and Networking Strategist, Advisor, Coach, Speaker, and Facilitator, she works with professionals, entrepreneurs, and organizations to help them build meaningful relationships and create the legacies they want to live — not just leave behind. Her approach combines leadership insight, neuroscience-informed coaching, and structured reflection to help people reconnect with their purpose, deepen their relationships, and take aligned action. She has spoken at Essence Festival of Culture in the New Voices Village, Entrepreneur Hub, and SOKO MRKT Stage, served as Guest Lecturer at Howard University, and presented at SXSW. Tonya believes legacy is shaped every day through the choices we make and the relationships we nurture.

Gap Finder Role — Dual Lane

Nia steps in at the two places most businesses lose money:

Lane 1 — When customers don’t come back. When the diagnostic shows existing customers are buying once and disappearing, Nia identifies the relationship breakdown behind the numbers. She teaches you how to turn one-time buyers into loyal customers — and loyal customers into fans who refer others.

Lane 2 — When leads don’t turn into customers. When plenty of people are interested but few are actually buying, Nia uses your ideal-customer profile to show why the right relationships are not forming. Then she teaches you how to network with purpose — so the right customers AND the right investors find their way to you.

“Legacy is not what you leave behind — it is what you build every day through the relationships you nurture and the people you choose to lift. That is the work we do together.” — Tonya Rutherford, aka Nia Ford
Dr. Jeff Bullock
Dr. Jeff Bullock
AI Systems Specialist  ·  National
AI Gap Closer
Drowning in admin. Buried in inbox. Watching competitors automate while you’re still doing it by hand.
200+ small business owners came to Jeff with that exact problem and walked out with autonomous AI systems running their business. One M&A broker cleared 90 emails a day in 48 hours.

A PharmD turned AI Systems Architect, Dr. Jeff Bullock founded PRISM AI Consultants and VersAssist LLC after 18 years at CVS Health, where he rose from pharmacy clerk to district leader overseeing multi-million dollar operations across multiple states. PRISM — built on the values of Positivity, Resilience, Innovation, Service, and Mastery — has delivered $350K–$700K+ in AI system value to clients, most built in days, not months. With 34 autonomous agents running his own business and an execution team of 11, Dr. Jeff doesn’t talk about AI — he builds it. Every system PRISM delivers was proven internally first. The agents, dashboards, and automations that run his business are the same architecture his clients receive. Verizon platform presenter. Host of AI Hustle with Dr. Jeff. Co-creator of the Lehigh Valley AI Expo with the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Gap Finder Role — Always Last

Before the event, Dr. Jeff uses AI to gather and synthesize public customer intelligence on every registered attendee’s business — reviews, social media, market data — and delivers it to Loren to power her diagnosis. On Day 2, he goes last — always — and executes on every solution the other three faculty have surfaced. This includes: a comprehensive AI technology gaps analysis for each attendee; AI-powered customer outreach and communication systems; strategic networking and lead generation tools; and fully built, ready-to-deploy AI execution tools that implement Coach Nic’s complete gap management action plan. Attendees leave Day 2 with systems running — not planned, not sketched out, built.

“I don’t talk about AI. I build AI systems. 34 autonomous agents run my own business. Every system I deliver to a client was proven internally first.” — Dr. Jeff Bullock
Loren Robinson
Loren Robinson
Market Intelligence Specialist  ·  National
Market Intelligence Gap Closer

H.O.W. C.O.M.E.™ Intelligence Methodology — closing the customer truth gap by uncovering what your customers actually mean versus what they say, and what your market data is not telling you. Loren is a market intelligence specialist, not a marketing consultant. She owns the Customer Voice dimension of the BAPSC™ diagnostic, surfacing the buying behaviors, unspoken objections, and customer psychology that explain exactly why revenue gaps exist — and connecting every finding directly to missed dollars.

Gap Finder Role — Customer Intelligence

Works from three SGF data sources: the Customer Lifetime tab (historical transaction data), the Customer Current Month tab (current spending patterns), and the Customer Voice section under Root Causes (what customers are literally saying). Her one question: How come you are leaving money on the table from a customer perspective? Every answer connects to dollars. Her own app is part of the solution she demonstrates live.

“The tools that we need are going to be right there in front of us. That’s what makes this different.” — Loren Robinson
How To Register

Three steps.
Zero friction.

Registration is a streamlined three-step flow. Pick your tier, complete payment through Stripe, and your post-payment prep page captures the intake your faculty review before Day 1.

1
Pick Your Tier

Choose Early Bird, GA, Early Bird VIP, or VIP.

All four tiers, full feature comparison, and Stripe checkout are right below in the Investment section.

2
Pay Through Stripe

Secure checkout. Seat confirmed instantly.

After payment, you’re redirected to the prep page where faculty intake is captured and your registration is finalized.

3
Complete Prep

Faculty review every submission in advance.

Submit your business profile, gap diagnosis, and outcome target. VIP attendees email a 90-second to 3-minute pitch video as soon as possible after registration.

See Tiers & Reserve Your Seat →

Group ticket and institutional sponsorship inquiries — info@coachnicdc.com

Location

Washington DC  ·  Capitol Hill

Coach Nic DC Intensive Facility700 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Suite 200, Washington DC 20003
Eastern Market neighborhood  ·  One block from Eastern Market Metro (Blue / Orange / Silver lines)
The Venue

A rooftop venue perched above Capitol Hill with panoramic views of the Washington DC skyline — the Capitol dome, the monuments, the city that moves the world. The space seats up to 200 and includes multiple breakout rooms configured for Day 3 parallel pitch sessions. This is not a hotel ballroom. This is the home of the BAPSC™ methodology, and it is unlike anything else you have walked into for a business event.

Getting Here

Washington DC is a major travel hub with direct flights from most US cities. Eastern Market Metro station is one block from the venue. Rideshare widely available throughout Capitol Hill. The neighborhood is walkable, vibrant, and historic.

Hotels

A curated list of nearby hotels at group rates will be provided to all registered attendees. Capitol Hill offers excellent options within walking distance. Book early — June is peak Washington DC season.

The Setting

Eastern Market is one of Washington DC’s most historic and iconic neighborhoods. Steps from the US Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the Library of Congress. The setting is as extraordinary as the transformation that happens inside it.

Ideal Attendee

This was built for you
if any of these are true.

Established business owner, 2–10 years in operation, annual revenue $150K–$2M. Growth has plateaued and you know something specific is blocking the next level — you just haven’t been able to name it.

Bankable business model with a proven customer base. You don’t need validation. You need your exact gaps diagnosed and closed so you can move with precision instead of guesswork.

You have been turned down for funding, quoted terms you couldn’t accept, or never knew where to start with capital. You are ready to fix that — not someday, now.

Your network should be opening more doors than it is. You have the relationships but you are not connecting them to results. The leads are in your phone. They are not converting.

You have AI tools available and no real system for using them to run your business. By the end of Day 2 that problem is solved. Dr. Jeff builds it in real time with your actual business data.

Decisive. Coachable. Ready to do the real work in three days — not watch someone talk about it. If you hold a VIP ticket, you are ready to stand in front of investors on Day 3. Not someday. Day 3.

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The Operating System

Sales Gap Finder™
powers the entire experience.

Sales Gap Finder™ (SGF) is the SaaS performance management platform built by Coach Nic DC over 29 years of coaching 3,600+ entrepreneurs. It is the system Gap Closers™ runs on — not a tool we demonstrate, but the operating system every attendee uses to find and close their business gaps in real time.

See it in action
Explore Sales Gap Finder

See your own gaps in under 15 minutes — start your free trial.

Every Gap Closers™ ticket includes 3 months of full SGF Solo access — a $497 value. You enter your business data before Day 1. Four faculty work from your live data across all three days. By the end of the event, you don’t just leave with notes — you leave with a system you’ve already started running.

Every ticket also includes 3 months of SGF Academy access — a $147 value ($49/month subscription rate). The on-demand course library teaches you how to use every part of the platform on your own time, at your own pace.

Total combined value: $644 — included with every ticket, regardless of tier.

What you get for $0 extra
  • SGF Solo Platform — $497 value3 months full access. Your data, your reports, your gap diagnostics, all proprietary frameworks.
  • SGF Academy — $147 value3 months of the full course library at the $49/month subscription rate. Learn at your own pace.
  • Hands-on faculty workFour expert faculty work directly from your live SGF data during the event — not a value you can buy elsewhere.
  • Combined value: $644Included with every Gap Closers™ ticket regardless of tier
Investment

Four levels.
One transformation.

Three days. Day 1: 12–5 PM. Days 2–3: 9:30 AM–4 PM ET. In-person Washington DC. Three months Sales Gap Finder™ Solo™ access included with every ticket.

Early Bird
Limited  ·  Deadline 15 Days Before
$2,497
First 30 seats or 15 days before event
  • Day 1: Find the Gaps — Full BAPSC™ Diagnostic
  • Day 2: Close the Gaps — All Faculty Sessions
  • BAPSC™ Gap Profile Workbook
  • 90-Day Execution Plan Template
  • SGF Solo + Academy — Combined $644 Value3 months SGF Solo Platform ($497) + 3 months SGF Academy ($147)
    Includes: BAPSC™  ·  P.R.O.F.I.T.™  ·  RFM™  ·  Flash Scorecard & Rhythm  ·  full Academy course library
    Optional continuation: SGF Solo $99/mo or $999/yr  ·  Academy $49/mo or $497/yr — your choice, no automatic charges.
Claim Early Bird
General Admission
$2,997
Open enrollment
  • Day 1: Find the Gaps — Full BAPSC™ Diagnostic
  • Day 2: Close the Gaps — All Faculty Sessions
  • BAPSC™ Gap Profile Workbook
  • 90-Day Execution Plan Template
  • SGF Solo + Academy — Combined $644 Value3 months SGF Solo Platform ($497) + 3 months SGF Academy ($147)
    Includes: BAPSC™  ·  P.R.O.F.I.T.™  ·  RFM™  ·  Flash Scorecard & Rhythm  ·  full Academy course library
    Optional continuation: SGF Solo $99/mo or $999/yr  ·  Academy $49/mo or $497/yr — your choice, no automatic charges.
Reserve Your Seat
Early Bird VIP
Recommended  ·  Save $500
$3,997
30 seats  ·  Deadline 15 days before event
  • Days 1 & 2 — Full experience + premium seating
  • BAPSC™ Gap Profile Workbook
  • SGF Solo + Academy — Combined $644 Value3 months SGF Solo Platform ($497) + 3 months SGF Academy ($147)
    Includes: BAPSC™  ·  P.R.O.F.I.T.™  ·  RFM™  ·  Flash Scorecard & Rhythm  ·  full Academy course library
    Optional continuation: SGF Solo $99/mo or $999/yr  ·  Academy $49/mo or $497/yr — your choice, no automatic charges.
  • Day 3: Pitch to Investors & Super Connectors
  • Pitch video required — uploaded within 14 days of payment to qualify for Pitch Room slot
  • Post-event 1:1 with faculty of your choosing
  • Exclusive VIP Networking Banquet
  • Post-event accountability check-in
Claim Early Bird VIP
VIP
30 Seats Only
$4,497
Limited availability
  • Days 1 & 2 — Full experience + premium seating
  • BAPSC™ Gap Profile Workbook
  • SGF Solo + Academy — Combined $644 Value3 months SGF Solo Platform ($497) + 3 months SGF Academy ($147)
    Includes: BAPSC™  ·  P.R.O.F.I.T.™  ·  RFM™  ·  Flash Scorecard & Rhythm  ·  full Academy course library
    Optional continuation: SGF Solo $99/mo or $999/yr  ·  Academy $49/mo or $497/yr — your choice, no automatic charges.
  • Day 3: Pitch to Investors & Super Connectors
  • Pitch video required — uploaded within 14 days of payment to qualify for Pitch Room slot
  • AND: Post-event 1:1 with faculty of your choosing
  • Exclusive VIP Networking Banquet
  • Post-event accountability check-in
Claim VIP Seat
Important — VIP Tickets Only

Day 3 Pitch Room access requires a pitch video.

VIP and Early Bird VIP tickets unlock the Day 3 Pitch Room — where you pitch directly to confirmed super connectors, investors, and capital partners. To preserve the quality of the room and give faculty time to coach your pitch before the event, every VIP holder submits a 90-second to 3-minute pitch video through the post-payment prep page within 14 days of registration.

Why this matters: Faculty review your video in advance so Day 3 time is spent coaching your delivery and matching you to the right people in the room — not learning your business from scratch. No video by the deadline = no Pitch Room slot. Days 1 and 2 access remains.

Certificate of Completion included for all attendees. Institutional sponsorship and group ticket options available for banks, CDFIs, SBDC affiliates, and cohort organizations — contact us for details.

Inside Your SGF Platform Access

A complete performance
management system.

Sales Gap Finder™ Solo isn’t a workbook or a slide deck — it’s a working SaaS platform with proprietary frameworks Coach Nic has refined over 29 years coaching 3,600+ entrepreneurs. Here’s every system you get when you walk into Gap Closers™.

BAPSC™ Root Cause Diagnostic

Find every revenue gap by analyzing five root cause areas: Behavior, Attitude, Product/Service, Systems, and Customer Voice. The diagnostic engine that runs Day 1 of the Intensive.

P.R.O.F.I.T.™ Selling System

The six-step closing methodology: Prepare, Rapport, Observe & Offer, Fix Objections, Invoke the Yes, Take the Money. Used by thousands of business owners to close more deals at higher prices.

RFM™ Customer Segmentation

Identify your Big Fish (highest-value customers), Power Buyers (frequent repeat customers), and One-and-Dones. Know exactly who to pursue, who to retain, and who’s leaving money on the table.

Flash Scorecard & Management Rhythm

Daily and weekly performance dashboards that show exactly where your business is winning and losing. Built-in management rhythm tells you what to look at, when, and what to do about it.

SGF Academy — Full Course Library

On-demand video courses covering every part of the platform and methodology. Watch on your own time, at your own pace. Updated continuously as new modules are released.

EPU & Smart Metrics

Economics Per Unit, ASP (Average Selling Price), UPT (Units Per Transaction), $PC (Dollar Per Customer). The exact metrics every entrepreneur should know — calculated automatically from your data.

Combined value: $644 — included with every ticket.
SGF Solo Platform onboarding (3 months)$497
SGF Academy 3-month subscription ($49/mo × 3)$147
Total if purchased separately$644
With your Gap Closers™ ticketIncluded

After the event, continue at your own pace: SGF Solo $99/month or $999/year — SGF Academy $49/month or $497/year. Completely your choice. No automatic charges. We’ll send you a renewal link when the time comes.

See Pricing
Coming After Launch

The Gap Closers™ Community

A post-event community for Gap Closers™ alumni — built to sustain the relationships, accountability, and momentum that begin in Washington DC. Details to be announced soon.

Early Bird seats are limited.
Two ways to claim yours.

Both deadlines fall 15 days before the event. Once seats fill, they are gone.

Early Bird
General Admission
$2,497 Save $500

Days 1 & 2 — Find the Gaps and Close the Gaps with all four faculty. Includes the BAPSC™ workbook and 3 months SGF Solo access.

Claim Early Bird
Both deadlines: 15 days before the event — June 9, 2026

Coach Nic DC  ·  700 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Suite 200, Washington DC 20003  ·  bizgapfinder.com/gapclosers  ·  (202) 914-6595

Certificate of Completion includedRecognized by CDFI partners, M&T Bank cohort sponsors, SBDC affiliates, and Fundable Founders programs as proof of gap analysis and business readiness training.