No guaranteed timetable should be carried over from a different process. Use the actual Gold Card stage and official communications.
Compare the objective without copying the schedule
An adviser’s estimate for another route does not determine Gold Card vetting, visa availability or approval. Confirm which process is being discussed before tying employment or relocation commitments to the estimate. Different investment routes rest on different evidentiary requirements and different review structures, so an estimate built for one route is not simply a slower or faster version of another; those processes are measuring different things for reasons that have nothing to do with any applicant's individual case.
Before adopting any borrowed estimate, ask the source to confirm exactly which program it describes and on what it was based, since a range quoted informally from memory of a different process carries no weight here. Build an internal list of the actual stages that apply to the case at hand, and track progress only against that list rather than against a number carried over from an unrelated conversation. Where an adviser cannot clearly separate the programs when asked, treat the estimate as unreliable regardless of how confidently it was originally offered.
A number that cannot be traced to this program's own documentation is not a schedule, however precise it sounds when repeated.