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The maths

What does it cost to learn it yourself versus paying to rent it monthly from an agency?

Most agencies retain £1,500 to £5,000 a month with no end date. Move the sliders to see how that compares to learning it yourself over three months. Either way, you end up with a system. Only one of them is yours.

£2,000
£500£5,000
6
3 months2 years
£100k
£50k£500k
£50
Your income ÷ 2,000 hours£50/hr

Time to learn + implement

About 60 hours over 3 months. Roughly 5 hours a week.

Your effective hourly rate

Your total personal income for the year, divided by 2,000 hours (the estimated working hours in a standard year).

Paying an agency

£12,000

You own nothing

£2,000 × 6 months. The agency keeps the system. The day they leave, the pipeline leaves with them. Stop paying and you're back to zero.

Learn it · Own it forever

£3,297

Yours forever

60 hours of your time at £50/hr (£3,000) plus 3 months of Modern Founder OS (£297). The engine is yours the moment you build it. Keeps producing for years, whether you keep paying us or not.

The real difference

Over 6 months, learning it yourself is £8,703 cheaper AND you walk away with a system that keeps generating revenue forever. The agency walks away with everything.

Time-to-learn is a working assumption based on members who put in roughly 5 hours a week. Real time varies by background and pace.

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