For salaried professionals in Europe · a private Slack community
You are good at your job. This is where it starts paying you properly.
Right now you are guessing. Within a month you will know your three numbers and have somebody to ask about your specific situation.
- 01
What your role really pays. Not a salary-survey range. Where your specific package sits, from someone who has spent fifteen years seeing what these jobs offer.
- 02
What never reaches you. The gap between what you cost your employer and what lands in your account. Most people have never once calculated it.
- 03
What closing that gap is worth. Your own figure over ten years, worked out properly, instead of a number you have been vaguely avoiding.
Then you ask and I answer. Something specific about your job, your offer, your country, usually the same day.
Seven-day refund, no questions. Cancel in two clicks. Book and all eight guides included.
€29 a month for the first 50 members, then €49. Whatever you join at is yours for as long as you stay.
9-5 Fastlane
Private community
9-5 Fastlane
Nikita Balanov
Slack · book and 8 guides included
You will probably recognise this
Who it is for: employed in Europe, roughly €30,000 to €100,000, in a role where doing it well can change what you are paid.
You have read the threads. Watched the videos. Saved three podcast episodes.
And your net worth is roughly where it was eighteen months ago.
It is not a discipline problem. It is that nobody in your life can answer the specific question you actually have. Your manager cannot tell you what you should be paid. Your friends do not want to talk about money. The internet gives you a hundred general answers to a situation that is entirely specific.
So the question sits there. For months. And months are what the decade is made of.
The myth
There is free information everywhere. If I really wanted this, I would have done it by now with what is already out there.
The reality
Every piece of information about fitness has been free for twenty years. How many genuinely fit people do you know? It was never an information problem.
What is in the room
Direct access to me
Ask anything. Your commission structure, your comp conversation, your country. Answered in about five minutes instead of five days of googling.
Job offers, pre-filtered
Roles that land in my inbox, tested the way the book tests them. Most never get posted publicly.
Tool deals and what I use
What is in my stack now, what I dropped and extended trials and discounts that are not public.
Claude, applied to your job
The specific prompts and workflows I use to research accounts, prep calls and clear admin.
Anonymous comp benchmarking
What people here actually earn, by role, market and stage. The asymmetry nobody else will fix for you.
Referrals and introductions
From me, my network and increasingly between members. This is the part that compounds.
Where I put my money
Not advice, not a portfolio to copy. What I am actually doing. Every decision stays yours.
Private workshops
AI, GTM, content, personal brand, negotiation. Small enough that you can actually ask something.
Plus the full book and all eight guides, included. Already bought the book? Your first month is free instead.
What changes
Now
After
A question sits unanswered for six months
You ask on Tuesday and decide on Wednesday
You guess whether your comp is normal
You compare against real numbers from real people
You find jobs the same way everyone does
Roles arrive pre-filtered, before they are posted
You read about the five levers
You actually pull them, with somebody checking your work
The whole idea, in one line
The book tells you what to do. The room tells you what to do about your specific version of it.
Let us be honest about the price
Nineteen euros is three coffees. I am not going to pretend coffee is a bad purchase. I buy it. But be honest about what three coffees will do for the next ten years of your life.
One compensation conversation that goes better
often €5,000 to €10,000 a year and every year after
One introduction to the right company
potentially a different decade
One structural change to how you are paid
in my case that was worth €2,434 a month
One question answered in five minutes
instead of sitting unanswered for six months
The membership costs €228 a year. I am not promising you any of the above. I cannot control your market, your manager or your effort and anybody promising you a number is selling something.
The price is set deliberately so that you only have to be right once, ever, for this to have been obvious.
Seven-day refund, no questions. Cancel in two clicks. Book and all eight guides included.
Who is running this
I rented carpets to restaurants for €700 a month. Fifteen years later I was ranked first of more than 250 account executives globally at Deel and the portfolio I built on a salary now pays me more than most of the jobs I ever had.
About sixty percent of that portfolio is money I moved, not money that grew.
No inheritance, no company sold, no exit, no crypto. A payslip and roughly five decisions. I do not need this to be a business. I need it to be the thing I wish existed when I was thirty and had nobody to ask.
Verifiable: the career is public and dated on LinkedIn, both companies are on the Estonian business register, the payslip screenshots are in the book.
Before you join, the honest bit
This is new. If you join now the room is small and some days it will be quiet. There are no testimonials on this page because there is nobody to quote yet and I am not going to invent any.
What you get instead is the thing that disappears later: most of my attention.
The first 50 members get answered fastest, shape what this becomes and keep their price when it rises. If you would rather wait until there are two hundred people and a wall of reviews, that is completely reasonable. It will cost more and I will have less time.
Seven-day refund, no questions. Cancel in two clicks. Book and all eight guides included.
You are going to be ten years older either way. The only question is whether you spend those ten years with somebody to ask.
Not financial advice. I am not a licensed financial adviser, accountant or tax adviser. Nothing here is a promise of any financial outcome.