Methodology

Why supervision matters.

The Advance Strategies Group platform is built on the proprietary CRIAR® methodology, authored and continuously refined by the founder across 25 years anchored in educational management consulting, within 30+ years of continuous professional practice. Scale is a consequence of the methodology — not a substitute for it.

The five disciplines of CRIAR®

Five integrated disciplines refined across two decades of applied practice.

C
Culture of Entrepreneurship

Behavioral pedagogy embedding entrepreneurial habits from early learning through founder cohorts; teachers and cohort facilitators are trained as front-line agents of culture rather than passive content delivery.

R
Retention by Prediction

A three-variable predictive model — performance, engagement, attendance — flags at-risk learners and cohort dropouts before they leave; the same logic moved network-level dropout from 17% to 7% in prior educational engagements.

I
Intelligence of Market

Sector analysis, mystery-shopping, NPS measurement, and demand research establish the named baseline against which every cohort, vertical, and engagement is governed.

A
Acceleration of Growth

Behavioral pedagogy and demand engineering converted into measurable acquisition and outcome funnels with attributable conversion; the discipline that lifted enrollment at named institutions from 300 to over 1,700.

R
Replication under Direction

Founder-governed scale under explicit unit-level economics and weekly KPI review; the discipline that scaled distance-learning networks to 300+ educational hubs across 26 states under prior direction.

The five disciplines compound as one integrated system; the platform operationalizes them across all three verticals.

Authored, not aggregated

Every module operationalizes proprietary frameworks authored by the founder — not licensed third-party courseware.

Versioned and signed

Methodology releases ship on a quarterly cadence, each reviewed and signed by Adriano Salvador prior to deployment.

Quality assurance at cohort level

Cohort outcomes are reviewed against methodology fidelity before completion sign-off — supervision is structural, not advisory.

Cultural fluency built in

Bilingual delivery and cultural adaptation are first-class platform layers, not localization afterthoughts.

Founder record

Adriano Salvador — selected credentials.

Plain professional facts from the founder's public record.

Institutional quality recognition

Under the founder's direction, the Cachoeiro do Itapemirim and Castelo faculties of the MULTIVIX higher-education network achieved IGC = 5, the maximum institutional quality score awarded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (publicly verifiable on e-MEC.gov.br), 2014–2016.

Public-sector evaluator service

7 cycles as Examiner of the INOVES Award, the Espírito Santo state innovation prize for public management, 2006–2014.

Peer-reviewed publication

The CRIAR® methodology has been documented in peer-reviewed academic literature on educational management.

Methodology updates

Quarterly releases. Continuous improvement.

Quarterly release cadence

The CRIAR® framework predates this platform; the version log records platform-native releases since the codified rollout in Q3 2025.

v2.3Q2 2026
Reviewed by methodology team

Founder Cohort — Customer Discovery refinement

Refined the Validation Lab interview protocol to incorporate two-stage qualitative coding. Adds a new diagnostic for false-positive signal detection in early SMB segments. Deployed across all active Entrepreneurship cohorts.

v2.2Q1 2026
Reviewed by methodology team

Corporate Executive Education — Strategic Planning workbook update

Integrated three new mini-cases drawn from the founder's 2025 Utah founder-group sessions. Strengthens the link between annual-planning rituals and operational performance measurement.

v2.1Q4 2025
Reviewed by methodology team

Applied Financial Education — Bilingual scenario library expansion

Added 14 new Spanish-language scenarios targeting first-generation small business owners. Reviewed against NCEE standards and FINRA Investor Education frameworks.

v2.0Q3 2025
Signed by founder

Platform-wide methodology baseline

Codified the CRIAR® framework into platform-native modules across all three verticals. Established the quarterly release cadence and version-comparison surface.