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Membership
Paying membership is limited to 1000 places, split into ten price levels of 100. New members join at the highest open level, and from that day your price only falls, never rises. Stay long enough and you reach Level 0, which is free for life.
Level 1 is open at 4.99 EUR per month. It is the lowest entry price this membership will ever have.
In March 2008 Kevin Kelly published an essay called 1,000 True Fans. His argument was that a creator does not need a mass audience to make a living. A thousand people who genuinely value the work is enough, because a thousand people who care are worth more than a hundred thousand who scroll past.
Kelly used the number as a floor. It was the minimum he thought a creator needed. We use it as a ceiling.
That inversion is deliberate. The question we are answering is not how few people can sustain this. It is how many people one person can actually serve without the thing turning into a feed. A thousand is our honest answer to that question.
Let us be straight about the economics. A membership that stops selling at 1000 is worse for us than one that does not. If demand ever runs past the cap, we turn revenue away. Every other community in this space grows for as long as people keep signing up, and on a spreadsheet they are right to.
We are choosing the other thing. A cap is the only mechanism we found that makes the promises on the rest of this site survivable. The weekly case has to be read and answered. The office hour has to have room for the person who came with a problem. A recommendation has to be checked before it is published. None of that survives unlimited growth run by one person.
So the cap is not a marketing device. It is the constraint that makes the product possible, and we would rather name it than dress it up as exclusivity.
A member count is easy to grow and tells you almost nothing. The number we watch is how many people are active in a given week.
That changes what we build. There is no feed to scroll and no badge for lurking. The two rituals are designed so that showing up produces something you can use, which is the only durable reason anyone comes back. The cap keeps the room small enough that your post gets read and answered by people who know your context.
If you want a place to read quietly and never post, that is a legitimate thing to want. It is not this.
Every level gets identical access. The level sets your price and your standing in the community, never what you can open. A Level 10 member and a Level 0 member read the same cases, join the same office hour and use the same simulators.
| Level | Places | Price per month |
|---|---|---|
| Level 10 | 100 places | 49.99 EUR |
| Level 9 | 100 places | 44.99 EUR |
| Level 8 | 100 places | 39.99 EUR |
| Level 7 | 100 places | 34.99 EUR |
| Level 6 | 100 places | 29.99 EUR |
| Level 5 | 100 places | 24.99 EUR |
| Level 4 | 100 places | 19.99 EUR |
| Level 3 | 100 places | 14.99 EUR |
| Level 2 | 100 places | 9.99 EUR |
| Level 1 | 100 places | 4.99 EUR |
| Level 0 | Unlimited. Earned, not bought. | 0 EUR, lifetime |
Level 1 is open. New members always enter at the highest open level, so the entry price rises over time and never falls for someone who joins later.
Once Level 3 fills for the first time, rotation starts and then runs monthly.
In each rotation, twenty members move down one level in price. Twenty from Level 2 move to Level 1, twenty from Level 3 move to Level 2, and so on up the ladder. The twenty at the top of Level 1 move to Level 0 and stop paying for good. Places freed at the highest open level go to new members.
If someone cancels, the highest-ranked member from the level above moves into the gap, and the gap cascades upward until it reaches the top. Cancellations never create free Level 0 places. Only planned rotation does.
Once all 1000 places are taken, a rotation only runs when at least twenty people are on the waiting list. That keeps the top level full and lets the pace regulate itself.
Your subscription price changes automatically when you move. You always pay exactly the price of the level you are on.
Right now, ranking inside each level is by seniority. The day you joined is the only input, which means the earliest members reach Level 0 first and nobody can buy their way past you.
When the league launches, part of each rotation will be awarded on contribution instead of seniority alone. The plan is fifteen of the twenty places by seniority and five by what you actually did: cases answered, work submitted for review, people helped, league season results. Members who show up would move faster than members who only pay.
That change is not live yet, and we are not going to pretend it is. When it takes effect we will publish the exact split before the first rotation that uses it. The rule for any given rotation is public in advance, and it does not change quietly.
Level 0 is free for life. There is no price on it and no way to buy it. The only route is the rotation, twenty places at a time, and it stays yours unconditionally once you get there. We do not take it away for going quiet.
There is no cap on how many people reach it. There is a cap on how fast, which is what keeps it worth having.
The maths is real, which is the point. Someone who joins at Level 10 needs roughly fifty rotations to reach the bottom on seniority alone. At a monthly pace that is a bit over four years. Someone in the founding hundred gets there in the first few rotations. Both journeys end in the same place, and neither one depends on us changing our minds.
Level 0 members are the long memory of this community. Most of them end up mentoring, bringing cases and vouching for the place. None of that is required. It just tends to happen.
The first hundred members are the founding cohort. They get a permanent founding badge on their profile, the lowest entry price this membership will ever have, and the first claim on Level 0.
There is no separate founding offer and there will not be one. This is it. The mechanism replaces the usual launch discount, and unlike a discount it does not expire.
Every member gets the weekly case and its full archive, the weekly live office hour, the path for their career level, the study rooms, the knowledge vault, and full access to every exam simulator we have built or will build. Non-members buy each simulator separately. Members do not.
Live coaching cohorts are the one thing that is not included. They are priced separately and we always say so.
Members who refer others earn 33 percent commission on what those members pay, for as long as they pay. At a handful of referrals your own membership is covered and beyond that it is income.
Two things we will say plainly. Commission is paid out in cash rather than offset against your own subscription, so it is taxable income on your side. And referral links have to be marked as advertising, which we explain in the onboarding.
This is a useful extra. It is not the reason the model exists, and we will never pitch it as one.
Four ninety nine a month, everything included, cancel any time. The first hundred members are the founding cohort, and this is the lowest entry price this membership will ever have.