The pricing manifest · issue 00
The price is the price. Listed, not negotiated.
Three shelves, three honest prices. The free list is the only tier with a closed door — paid tiers and the flagship course open first to the readers already on the list, because the people who trusted the voice earliest get the shortest queue when a shelf flips the lights on.
The three shelves · pricing
The price is the price.
Free is the only tier with a closed door — paid tiers and the flagship course open to readers on this list first, so the people who trusted the voice earliest get the shortest queue when a shelf flips the lights on.
I. The Dispatch
01
The free field note
free
1 email a week · forever
A weekly field note from the editor on what the team is reading, drafting, and stress-testing against the operating assumptions of foundry-niche expertise.
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II. The Studio
02
The paid deep dive
$40
per reader · billed monthly
Long-form paid deep dives, mid-week operator briefs, and the back-catalogue archive — the same voice writing the harder, longer essay on the same niche.
Read a paid dispatch in the archive →III. The Workshop
03
The flagship course
$2,000
per seat · sold once, ridden hard
A concentrated multi-week course, sold once to a cohort of readers who already trust the editorial voice. Two intakes a year; first-read to subscribers first.
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Tier III · flagship course
Cohort 01 opens first to this list.
The flagship course is a multi-week, cohort-based workshop built around the same editorial voice you have been reading in the dispatch. Two intakes a year. The first cohort is not on sale in public — paid subscribers and the existing list hear about enrolment a week before any public announcement.
Week 1
Setting the editorial spine that the next six weeks compound on.
Week 2-5
The four core procedures: niche specificity, schedule, course sequencing, sponsor fit.
Week 6-7
Cohort workshops where each student runs the same procedures against their own vertical.
Week 8
The compounding chapter — what to do after the cohort, mapped onto the reader-list-pay-course loop.
Stacked value · what each tier unlocks
Same list, three income shapes.
Every cell shows which tier a reader needs to be on to claim the value. Higher tiers inherit the cells below — the workshop row grants everything the dispatch does.
| Value | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III |
|---|---|---|---|
01 Dispatch access The weekly free field note, the editor replies, and the back-stack of issues from the preview months. | |||
02 Paid deep dives The longer mid-week operator briefs and back-catalogue archive — the same voice writing the harder essay. | |||
03 Course enrolment A seat in the two yearly cohorts of the flagship course, with first-read window before public sale. | |||
04 Sponsor network Reader-side introductions to the matched sponsorship and partnership slate — only deals where both sides pass. |