From inside the firms that built the modern 9-5 trap

From inside the firms that built the modern 9-5 trap

A roadmap to financial freedom,
engineered for plug-and-play.

The elites have modelled your entire financial life to horrific precision.
Salary bands hard-limit your 40-year road to wealth.
Valuation models turn your time into someone else’s profit.

Your boss calculates how much freedom you’re allowed to have before reeling you back in.

So we took their systems and turned them into
a playbook you can use to print money.

So we took their methods and made a
a playbook you can use to print money.

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Who We Are

Who We Are

Who We Are

We built the system.

We built the system.
And then we broke it.

We're a duo of a former private equity intern and a software engineer,
and we used to build the models that quietly run your life.

We modelled dopamine curves to predict your engagement. Learned how to map your behaviour to formulas. How to price your freedom with a spreadsheet.

Our team consists of a former private equity intern and a software engineer,
and we used to build the models that quietly run your life.

We modelled dopamine curves to predict your engagement. Learned to price your freedom with a spreadsheet.

We took everything we’d learned: the psychological feedback loops, automation blueprints, and purposed it for public use.

This project became Mapping the Secret Economy, a starting-from-zero roadmap to financial freedom, psychologically engineered to hook you into execution.

Before you can get started, you need to see exactly how rigged the game is.

And then we broke it.

We built the system.
And then we broke it.

One day, we stopped building for them. We took everything we’d learned: the psychological feedback loops, automation blueprints, and purposed it for public use.

This is Mapping the Secret Economy, a start-from-zero roadmap to financial freedom, psychologically engineered to hook you into taking action.

Before you can get started, you need to see exactly how rigged the game is.

We took everything we’d learned: the psychological feedback loops, automation blueprints, and purposed it for public use.

This project became Mapping the Secret Economy, a starting-from-zero roadmap to financial freedom, psychologically engineered to hook you into execution.

Before you can get started, you need to see exactly how rigged the game is.

You're on a 40-year path to financial freedom

You're on a 40-year path to financial freedom

You're on a 40-year path to financial freedom

You've seen the options.

Each of these systems promises progress.
But none were designed for your freedom, only for the profit of its creators.

The college or university detour

College or university detour

You’re funnelled into old knowledge that’s already been automated, paying six figures to learn what a few lines of Python and a $20 OpenAI API key can now replace.
(Further reading: AI 2027)

The 9-to-5 trap

Eight hours a day, you sell your freedom to a system for a fraction of their profits. Your career's limit was predicted before you started. Every “promotion” manipulates your dopamine circuits into a soul-crushing linear time exchange.

The odd finance guru

They make money teaching you how to chase it. Their business is optimised to keep you watching, not winning. The entire content machine runs on cheap dopamine: short-term motivational slop, zero technical value.

They make money teaching you how to chase it. The entire content machine runs on cheap dopamine: short-term motivational slop, zero technical value.

Reading books endlessly

Knowledge without execution.
You’ve probably read enough to start ten companies. But without a system that executes for you, you’re just building mental inventory. Your “learning” here is largely irrelevant fluff soon-forgotten without action.

You’ve read enough to start ten companies. But without a system that executes for you, you’re just on a speedrun to burnout and cognitive overload.

Online course modules

The 9-to-5 in pretty colours.
Most of them are prettier jobs: you still trade time for cash, just with better UI design. Algorithms decide your reach, burnout decides your lifespan. You don’t own a business. You own a hamster wheel.

The 9-to-5 in pretty colours.
Most of them are prettier jobs: you still trade time for cash, just with better UI design.

An outline of Mapping the Secret Economy

An outline of Mapping the Secret Economy

An outline of Mapping the Secret Economy

This is what they're hiding from you

Our three modules map out the system you've been living inside:
1 —The dopamine economy keeps you distracted.
2 — Capitalism keeps you dependent and poor.
The system is evil and efficient, but once you understand its structure,
3 — You can use its rules to engineer freedom.

Layer I
Your brain: hijacked, monetised

Every minute you waste, someone else makes a profit off your brain chemistry.

Each Netflix episode you watch is another hundred dollars you're leaking. It's all engineered with the same 37-second micro-delay that keeps billions hooked.

You can exploit this same wiring, but point it at creation instead of consumption.

Each chapter in Layer I — Dopamine Economy is built in variable-reward loops: finish a section, get a pulse of progress, take one micro-action, and your brain releases the same dopamine hit it used to get from hours of TikTok.

The difference is, you'll learn step-by step how to rewire your reward circuitry so your brain literally becomes a self-reliant dopamine engine during deep work.

Every minute you waste, someone else makes a profit off your brain chemistry. Each Netflix episode you watch is another hundred dollars you're leaking.
The fix is simple: step by step we'll rewire your reward system so your brain literally becomes a self-perpetuating dopamine engine during deep work sessions.

1) The Chemical Prison — How dopamine loops create the illusion of momentum while draining willpower.
2) The Productivity Delusion — Why “discipline” is a chemical equation, not a character trait.
3) The Infinite Scroll Economy — The architecture of attention, and how to opt out without isolating yourself.

11 chapters total

Layer II
Money circulates predictably

We've modelled your entire financial life.

To the exact dollar, a nerd with a spreadsheet has already calculated the maximum rent you’ll tolerate, the minimum salary to keep you grinding.
The economy is in what insiders have deemed a solved state: models have reliably predicted how capital flows.

Your hard work sits inside an equation optimised for someone else’s profit.

Layer II — Capital: A Solved State Metagame hands you the tools to see how money actually circulates and reroute them in your favour.

We'll walk you through how to redirect every pay-check surplus into self-compounding assets within 72 hours while everyone else's investments get eroded by the inflation trap.

10 chapters total

Layer III
Wealth is just plug-and-play

Here's what everyone gets wrong: wealthy people DO NOT work hard.

Every rich person you’ve ever envied runs a closed system: a flywheel that captures attention, converts it, and compounds without their input.
The system works FOR them.
You’re still inside someone else’s flywheel. every click, every purchase, every hour of your job is someone’s input-output loop paying their bills.

You're trying to escape the system.
The real solution is to replicate it.

Layer III — The Creation Engine walks you through how to build your own self-sustaining micro-economy that earns passive income while you sleep and frees you from trading time for money ever again.

13 chapters total

A look inside The Secret Economy

A look inside The Secret Economy

A look inside The Secret Economy

Zero-knowledge tools to generate wealth

Start from zero. No finance degree, no coding experience required.
These systems are ready-made and pre-built for you.

Master Your Brain Forever

Engineered for 88% completion rate among readers, hacking your reward system.

The "5-minute action loop" trains your dopamine circuits to crave 4-hour deep work over mind-numbing social media.

Chapters end with a micro-variable reward, same pattern TikTok uses to addict you, inverted to make you addicted to progress.

Exclusive at Mapping the Secret Economy (Layer I).

Engineered for 88% completion rate by hacking your reward system.

Chapters end with a micro-variable reward, calibrated on a 37-second feedback delay, the same pattern TikTok uses to addict you, inverted to make you addicted to progress.

A Secret Economy exclusive.

Think Once, Scale Infinitely

The 1-page OpenAI API workflow that replaced 3 software interns.

You'll get a half-page prompt built at a fintech firm that automates crypto market scans with 96% accuracy.

You’ll rebuild it from scratch: prompt state, verification chain, cost-per-token optimisation, then clone the structure for your own product.

Unreleased to the public outside of Mapping the Secret Economy
(Layer II).

Print Money with the Flywheel

Print Money with Flywheels

How to make your money work like code.

Stop saving after spending.
Instead, plug-and-play this: automate a loop that reallocates cash within 72 hours of hitting your account into assets that self-generate cashflow.

(It’s the same compounding rhythm used inside small PE funds and SaaS portfolios, just stripped down for one bank account.)

Only found in Mapping the Secret Economy
(Layer III).

Make your money work like code.

Stop saving after spending.
Instead, plug-and-play this: automate a loop that reallocates cash within 72 hours of hitting your account into assets that self-generate cashflow.

Only found inside the Secret Economy.

Set yourself free today

Set yourself free today

Set yourself free today

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A one-off purchase of $49,
buys you $10,000/month worth of shortcuts and systems.

The Operator's Edition

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$49 previously $89

Get the full Mapping the Secret Economy.
A three-books-in-one system that converts pure information into wealth. Just plug-and-play.

Deliberately priced low because the ultimate goal is to circulate, not gatekeep (rationale behind this explained in chapter 9 of TCE).

Get the blueprint

'Dopamine Economy' + 'Capital: A Solved State Metagame' + 'The Creation Engine'

Lifetime updates monthly to reflect shifting economies

Plug-and-play code with an easy setup guide to get you automating work instantly

Chapters engineered via variable reward loops to psychologically hook you into action

The Architect's Edition

$299

The verified infrastructure version of the system.
Includes everything from Operator, expanded with internal data, case validation, and strategic field notes used to build the documentation itself.

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Internal case studies, source data and test environments that shaped the core model

Annotated decision-tree library, the scaffolding behind the prompts

Meta-commentary from early operators: exactly what models failed, what printed money

Priority channel, scheduled strategic call for calibration & alignment

The Operator's Edition

Bestseller

USD$49 previously USD$99

Get the blueprint

'Dopamine Economy' + 'Capital: A Solved State Metagame' + 'The Creation Engine'

Lifetime updates monthly to reflect shifting economies

Plug-and-play code with an easy setup guide to get you automating work instantly

Chapters engineered via variable reward loops to psychologically hook you into action

USD$49
previously USD$89

Get the blueprint

'Dopamine Economy' + 'Capital: A Solved State Metagame' + 'The Creation Engine'

Lifetime updates monthly to reflect shifting economic trends

Automation blueprints to compress weeks of work into hours

Chapters engineered via variable reward loops to psychologically hook you into action

Testimonials from beta testers

Testimonials from beta testers

Testimonials from beta testers

These people started from zero

They used our documentation,
And quietly replaced 3-hour scrolling sessions and 4-year degrees
with 1-page workflows and ChatGPT-driven revenue engines.

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Felt like I actually own my brain again

The section on reward baselines was wild… I built a mini dopamine tracker in Notion using their ratios, and within days I stopped chasing small wins. I’m actually finishing big projects now :)

Lena, 27, Copywriter

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Casually turned my to-do list into cashflow

The whole thing rewired how I see work. I used one of the exercises to turn my daily to-do list into a small recurring income system. Tiny, but literally runs itself now

Aryan, 21, Engineering Student

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I stopped working but my micro economy kept paying me

The strangest part was how simple it all actually was. Like none of this felt like building a business. Just felt like just connecting systems someone already built for me and then watching the money start looping

Xiyue, 25, Web developer

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Gave myself a 20% raise, without asking?

I followed the section about capital flow, that hit me hard. Built a simple feedback loop between my income and expenses like it said. Two months later, I basically gave myself a 20% raise without changing jobs

Nathan, 31, PE associate

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Layer 1, the 8-minute rule that made work addictive again

Everyone else at the firm used Pomodoro timers and caffeine. I used the delayed-reward calibration method. I doubled my work and HR literally asked if I was using nootropics. The first few chapters of layer 1 goes nuts on this

Javier, 35, Accounting

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Chapter 2 dopamine curve built my side income

The first layer made me realise dopamine isn’t bad, it’s a signal. I used their curve-mapping idea to time my workflow with reward spikes, and somehow it led to a small digital product that makes $400 a week =D

Rhea, 21, Marketing student

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A roadmap to financial freedom, engineered for plug-and-play.

We built the system.

We built the system. And then we broke it.

And then we broke it.

We built the system. And then we broke it.

You've seen the options.

This is what they're hiding from you

Zero-knowledge tools to generate wealth

Join the new movement.

These people started from zero

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Stop reading eBooks.

Stop reading eBooks.

A roadmap to financial freedom,
engineered for plug-and-play.

We built the system.
And then we broke it.

We built the system.
And then we broke it.