Europe · €50k to €150k · sales, marketing, recruiting, RevOps
Stop wasting a European salary
I turned mine into a 7-figure investment portfolio without a business, inheritance or IPO. Join a community of like-minded people to speedrun your way to financial freedom.
The book and the room, €29/mo. Cancel in two clicks.
“A salary is the most underrated wealth-building tool in Europe.If somebody shows you how to use it.”
Your salary went up. Your net worth did not.
You earn more than in the past
But for some reason you do not feel better about your finances. Life gets more expensive as you go through it.
You know you should be investing, but you are not
Not laziness. You do not know where to start and you are afraid of getting it wrong with money it took years to earn.
You are already losing money you cannot see
Inflation takes a slice every year and tax takes a bigger one before you ever see the payslip. Neither sends a notification.
Nobody you know has actually done it
Plenty of opinions. No one in your circle who started where you are and got somewhere, who you could just ask.
Everyone tells you the only fix is a side hustle or a business.
But there's a better way.
How this works
The book is the whole map. The room is the company while you execute it. Both are in the one price.
Step 01
Join the community
The 9-5 Fastlane room, from day one. Bring your actual comp plan or your actual offer and get an answer, usually the same day.
Step 02
Read the book
Ten modules and the five levers I used to turn a payslip into a €1M+ portfolio. One weekend of reading.
Step 03
Build your AI Wealth Agent
The ten prompts turn the book into a personal agent that knows your goals, your numbers and your country.
Step 04
Get your 90-day plan
Tailored to where you are: your career stage, your industry, your skills and talents. One page, one number, a date.
Step 05
Learn from the best
Guest lectures from top performers in their field. The playbooks, the frameworks and the numbers they actually use, live, with your questions answered.
From €29/mo · cancel in two clicks · 7-day money back
Against the alternatives
Three ways in
The book on its own, the book and the room, or the year with an hour of my time and the guarantee.
The book
Just the book. Yours forever.
A tenner more than one month of the membership, on purpose. You pay once and nothing ever recurs.
What you get:
- ✓The full book, ten modules, read it in a weekend
- ✓The five levers behind a 7-figure portfolio built on a payslip
- ✓Ten ready-to-run prompts that build your personal AI Wealth Agent
- ✓Your 90-day plan, built around your career, industry and skills
- ✓My real portfolio: what I hold, and what it pays me each month
- ✓Every script: the raise, the offer, the equity questions, the exit
- ✓The seven rules, and the reference tables behind every number
- ✓Yours to keep forever, including every update I make to it
- ✓No subscription. One payment, and nothing recurring.
One payment · nothing recurring · yours forever
Founding rate · first 50
Membership
The book and the room. Cancel any time.
Everything in the book, plus:
- ✓The private room: ask anything, answered in hours by people who have done it
- ✓Guest lectures from practitioners at the top of their field
- ✓Job offers and referrals, shared inside the room first
- ✓Members-only trips and meetups across Europe
- ✓Locked at €29 for as long as you stay. It goes to €49.
- ✓Cancel in two clicks, any time
7-day money-back guarantee · cancel in two clicks
Best value
Annual
Everything, plus an hour of my time and the guarantee.
Everything in the membership, plus:
- ✓Two months free: €290 instead of €348
- ✓One hour with me, one to one, on your situation
- ✓A personal review of your 90-day plan, written back to you
- ✓The Outreach Agent I use to book my own meetings, free
- ✓The 12-month refund guarantee*
12-month 100% refund guarantee*
*The 12-month guarantee, in plain words. If twelve months after you join your income has not gone up by at least €2,900 — ten times what you paid me — I refund the whole €290. You show me where you started and where you ended up, and that you actually ran the ten prompts. That is the only condition, and I am not going to argue about it.
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You don't have to go through your journey alone
The book gives you the plan. The research on what happens next is hard to argue with: people who chase a goal inside a group get there far more often than people who keep it to themselves.
43%
success rate — kept their goals to themselves
76%
success rate — shared weekly progress with a supportive group
From a famous study by Dr. Gail Matthews, Dominican University.
What's inside of the community?
01 · The room
The room that makes you do it
Eight channels, immediate value. You post what you are stuck on and somebody who has been there answers, including me.
You might be one tool suggestion or one Claude workflow away from being a top performer in your organisation.
9-5 Fastlane
- #start-here
- #ask-nikita
- #comp-and-negotiation
- #tools-and-deals
- #claude-and-ai
- #jobs
- #investing
- #wins
Eight channels. This is the whole structure, not a teaser.
02 · Answers
Answers in hours, not months
Are you underpaid? What is the best industry to join this year? How much are people actually earning in this role? Answers from real people, not from a language model.
# ask-nikita
Marten K. 09:41
Got the offer. €72k base. I told them I was expecting €82k and they said the band maxes out at €75k. Just take it, right?
Nikita Balanov founder 11:03
Not yet. Bands flex for two things: signing bonuses and reviews. Counter at €75k base, a €7k signing bonus and a written salary review at six months tied to two numbers you control. The bonus comes from a different budget and the review closes the rest. Do it on a call, not over email.
Marten K. 11:07
It worked. €75k base, €7k signing, review in May. €10k above their "final" offer. Thanks man! 🙌
An example exchange, but a realistic one. Bring the question you actually have.
03 · The network
What the room brings you
Job offers that land in my inbox, referrals for people who need what you sell, and support from people chasing the same thing.
Johan S.
VP Sales at a fast-growing scale-up
Hey Nikita! We are growing fast and I am looking for an AE to join the team. Strong product, top of market comp. Do you know anyone you could recommend?
14:18
Hey Johan, actually yes. Two people from the community come to mind, both in your market. I will check with them today and intro you this week.
14:32 · Seen
Amazing, thank you! 🙏 Sending you the role now.
14:33
Messages like this land in my inbox. The room hears about them first.
04 · Guest lectures
Guest lecturers
Industry experts who are also practitioners. Top performers in their fields, sharing what actually works right now. The playbooks, the numbers and the mistakes, not theory.
Live sessions, recordings stay up. Bring your own situation and ask them directly.
Jan Mundorf
How I grew to 50k followers on LI
Renita Käsper
How recruiters actually screen your CV
Christian Krause
x2 your pipeline in 90 days
The first three sessions on the calendar. Members pick who comes next.
Members only
The part that actually changes things happens offline
Dinners, workshops, surf and ski trips with like-minded people. Crete, Portugal, Spain. Several times a year, members only.
Deals happen in the water
Two people catching waves and start discussing deals as they go for a break. Turns out one of them needs exactly what the other one sells. Nobody pitched anything. It just came up.
Partnerships start over dinner
One long table in an old-town restaurant, no agenda, just conversations about life. By dessert, two people who met that morning are planning to work together.
You make real friends
Nobody remembers a webinar. Everybody remembers the people they spent three days eating, surfing and laughing with. Those are the ones you call when it matters.
Questions
Why €29/mo and not €49/mo?+
Because I would rather have a thousand people happily paying the price of a Netflix subscription for a disproportionate amount of value, than one person paying €2,500 with enormous pressure on both sides of that transaction. There are no testimonials on this page yet and I will not invent any, so €49 is what it costs once there is proof. And I always appreciate early supporters and try to be one myself, so the first 50 of you get it at €29/mo, locked at that rate for as long as you stay.
Can I just buy the book on its own?+
Yes, €39 once and it is yours forever, with nothing recurring. That is a tenner more than one month of the membership and it is on purpose: you are paying a little extra to never have a subscription. If you would rather have the room as well, the membership is €29/mo and the book comes with it on day one.
What is the 12-month guarantee on the annual plan?+
Take the annual plan, run the ten prompts and do the work. If twelve months later your income has not gone up by at least €2,900 — ten times what you paid me — tell me and I refund the whole €290. You keep the book and the prompts. The monthly plan has a 7-day money-back guarantee instead: if it is not for you, say so inside a week and you get your €29 back.
Who is it for?+
Employed in Europe, roughly €50k to €150k and no system for what happens to it. Competence is not the gap.
I am not in sales.+
Fine. What you are paid and what you keep works the same on any payslip.
What happens after I join?+
The book and the ten prompts land in your inbox immediately, along with your Slack invite. Read it over a weekend, run the prompts on your own numbers and bring your 90-day plan back to the room.
Is this financial advice?+
No. Take decisions about your money to somebody qualified where you live.
Stop guessing.Start compounding.
Your salary is already the engine. The book is the map, the room is who you ask when the map does not match your street. From €29 a month for both.
Cancel in two clicks · 7-day money back · annual plan carries the 12-month guarantee
€29/mo
First 50 members. Then €49.