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§The Builder's Business Kit · v1

Everything in business.
In one weekend

Stop stitching it together from podcasts, Twitter threads, and three Investopedia tabs. One kit. Seven pieces. A working mental model of business by Sunday night.

Get the kit — $19

One kit. Pay once. 30-day refund.

Built by the operator behind Simplx & Sahelli

The Connection Map
Worksheet
The Handbook

A working mental model of business —

Made
Plain.

~150 pages · v1

§ 02The Problem

You don't have a knowledge problem.
You have a connection problem.

  • Read Lean Startup, Zero to One, half of Hooked
  • Bookmarked 47 Twitter threads
  • Listened to 200 hours of My First Million
  • Started 3 Notion docs called “Business 101”
  • Watched courses you never finished
  • Asked ChatGPT the same question 12 different ways
And yet — when someone asks why you priced the way you did, you can't explain it in one sentence. When your CAC creeps up, you're not sure if it's a channel problem or a positioning problem. When your runway shrinks, you're guessing what to cut.The pieces are in your head. But they don't connect.

That's what this kit fixes

§ 03The Promise

A working mental model of business.
By Sunday night.
Or your money back

§ 04What's in the kit

Seven pieces. One weekend.
Yours forever

The Handbook

A 150-page operator's book covering every domain of business.

PDF + EPUB

The Connection Map

A printable poster showing how every concept connects to every other.

A1 + interactive web

30 Books, Distilled

The most important business books — one paragraph + 5–8 lessons each.

~50-page PDF

The Glossary

200 essential terms, formulas, and acronyms.

25-page PDF + 1-pager

The Worksheet Pack

12 fillable templates. Positioning, pricing, CAC/LTV, runway.

PDF + Notion + Sheets

The Exercise Booklet

25 short exercises that force application to your business.

40-page PDF

Quick Start Paths

Four pre-sequenced paths through the kit for your situation.

15-page PDF

The whole stack
  • The HandbookPDF + EPUB
  • The Connection MapA1 + interactive web
  • 30 Books, Distilled~50-page PDF
  • The Glossary25-page PDF + 1-pager
  • The Worksheet PackPDF + Notion + Sheets
  • The Exercise Booklet40-page PDF
  • Quick Start Paths15-page PDF
  • +Lifetime updatesforever
  • +Operator Notes weekly newsletterforever
  • +Web Library accessforever
Yours today$19
Get the kit — $19
§ 05A peek inside

Real spreads. Real numbers.
Plain language

No mockups. These are pages from the actual kit.

Handbook · ch. 4p. 47

§ 4.2 · PRICING

The first ten customers should not see your real prices.

Sahelli charges clinics $80/mo today. The first ten clinics paid $30/mo — a deliberate discount, traded for testimonials, feedback, and the right to learn in public…

Connection Map · detailp. 2
PricingMarginCACChannelHiringRunway
Worksheet · CAC paybackp. 11
MRR$80
CAC$400
Gross margin78%
CAC payback6.4 mo

Goal: under 12 months for SaaS, under 6 for consumer.

§ 06Choose your path

Where are you starting from?

First-time founder

Pre-revenue, building your first thing.

~6 hours · weekend pace

Scaling past $10K MRR

Growth is real. Decisions are getting harder.

~5 hours · focused

Agency owner moving into product

Service business → SaaS.

~7 hours · two evenings

Pre-revenue learner

Not building yet. Want a working model first.

~4 hours · light reading

§ 07Plus, free with your kit

Three things that make this a habit, not a one-time read.

Bonus

The Web Library

Interactive companion. Calculators with saved state, the live Connection Map, search across the corpus, your dashboard.

forever

Bonus

Operator Notes

A weekly Sunday email connecting current business events to the kit's concepts. ~600 words.

weekly · forever

Bonus

Lifetime Updates

Every new chapter, worksheet, exercise, deep-dive case study. Free. Forever. No upsell.

forever

§ 08Who this is for

Honest fit check.

For you, if…

  • You're an early-stage founder, indie hacker, or operator
  • You learn fast and apply faster
  • You want a working model, not academic theory
  • You're sick of ten-tab learning
  • You'd rather finish a kit than start a course

Not for you, if…

  • You want certified credentials or citations
  • You prefer 40-hour video courses
  • You're looking for a get-rich-fast playbook
§ 09About the editor

Built by an operator, for operators.

I've spent the last several years stitching this together myself, while building Simplx and Sahelli — two products that taught me, the expensive way, that pricing affects channels, channels affect retention, and retention quietly sets the ceiling on everything else.

I read the books. I bought the courses. I ran the spreadsheets. The knowledge was out there — but nobody had connected it. So I made a map.

This kit is what I wish someone had handed me on day one. It is the working version. The honest version. The version that respects your weekend.

— The editor

§ 10Buyers say

Beta readers, on the kit.

I read the Handbook in two evenings. I’ve already changed how I price.

Beta reader · agency

$30k MRR

The Connection Map is the single most useful thing on my desk.

Beta reader · SaaS

Pre-revenue

Worth ten times the price. The exercises forced clarity I’d been avoiding.

Beta reader · indie hacker

$8k MRR

Real names, real photos, real businesses — published in full at launch.

§ 11Pricing

One price. Pay once.
Yours forever

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The Kit · v1
$19lifetime
  • All seven pieces of the kit
  • Lifetime updates — every new chapter, free
  • Operator Notes weekly newsletter
  • Web Library access
  • 30-day, no-questions refund
Get the kit — $19

One purchase covers your founding team. Don't share with the internet.

§ 12The guarantee

If it doesn't work,
you don't pay

30-day, no-questions-asked refund. If the kit doesn't give you a working mental model of business by Monday, email me. I'll refund you in full. Keep the files.

— The editor

§ 13Frequently asked

Honest answers.

§ 14One last thing

Stop stitching.
Start building

By Monday, you'll know how business actually works.