In December I ran a $55 experiment.

Could a group of technical founders build a $5k strategic offer in 5 days? That was the stated goal. $55, 5 days, 15 people joined.

My private question was bigger : would anyone actually sell it?

Two months later, I got my answer.

And by the way ... it's been a months I didn't write to you here, 🙏🏼 I've been busy collecting case studies and enough results to have something worth sharing, however small it is ... I have more to share, but let's start with the first steps.

In short

• The $55 Challenge Results : Two participants closed their first deals 🔥
• The 3-Headed Dragon : What I keep seeing block technical founders
• The $555 Experiment : What I'm building next, and why
• The Details : Dates, format, price

The $55 Challenge Results

Yohann signed his first €5k client — plus €2.4k/month recurring.

His words: "the client that changes everything." I'll let his full message speak for itself :

Emil closed a €2k deal. His message was shorter but just as clear :

Made my day. Honestly, might've made my year.

Here's the thing though.

All I gave them was 3 months access to the space and answered questions when they came up.

No coaching calls. No homework. No structured follow-up.

They got there on their own. In 60 days.

That got me thinking : what would happen with actual support?

The 3-Headed Dragon 🐲

Here's what I keep seeing watching technical founders go through this process.

There's a 3-headed dragon blocking the path to your first $5k strategy client. Each head has to be slain in order. You can't skip ahead. Fighting them out of sequence is like shifting from first gear straight to fourth — the car stalls 😆

🐲 Head 1: "I don't have enough substance worth $5k."

This is the most common one. We slay it by packaging the offer. You take the thinking, the diagnostic ability, the pattern recognition that you've been doing for years — for free, embedded inside implementation projects — and you give it a name, a structure, a price. Suddenly you see what was invisible before. The value was always there. It just needed a container.

That's what the 5-day challenge does. After 5 days, participants walk out with a packaged strategic offer : a diagnostic, a discovery engagement, an audit, a roadmap — anchored to the right price for their track record.

First win : I have something worth $5k.

🐲 Head 2: "Sure, but nobody in MY niche will actually buy this."

This one is sneaky. Because it sounds reasonable. It wears a lab coat and speaks in data 😂. But it's still a dragon. We slay it by closing the first client. One real "yes" from a real human with real money in the bank account. Evidence beats confidence !

First win : It worked.

🐲 Head 3: "That was probably luck."

The most persistent head. You slay it by doing it three more times. That's when luck stops being a plausible explanation. As Yohann said, quoting something I whisper to all my coaching students : "let's do it 3 times to screw and validate the concept deep in my brain."

First win : It works.

The $55 challenge slays Head 1.

But Heads 2 and 3? That's where most people get stuck — alone, second-guessing, waiting for confidence that never shows up on its own. It's the messy middle I wrote about a year ago. Except this time, I can see the specific shape of the mess. And I think I can help people get through it faster.

That gap kept bothering me. So I'm closing it.

The $555 Experiment ⚔

Let's slay Dragon Head 2.

Same philosophy. 10x the support. A 5-week accelerator that takes technical founders from offer to first $5k strategy client. Systematically. With me on your side.

Here's the weekly breakdown :

→ Week 1: "Build your diagnostic offer." Depending on your track record, your anchor could be less than $5K, $5K-$10K, or higher. We figure out the right number for your context.

→ Week 2: "Get it in front of 5 real buyers." No funnel needed. Five real conversations.

→ Week 3: "Warm outreach." The people who already know your work and trust your judgment. Remember my sacred sequence : when marketing → 1️⃣ Former clients, 2️⃣ Network (warm), 3️⃣ Prospects (cold). We start where the trust already exists.

→ Week 4: "Smart cold outreach." Opening new conversations with an offer sharp enough to make the first message worth reading.

→ Week 5: "Content to amplify the signal." Build the inbound pull so the right people come to you pre-convinced. This is where we start the 7-11-4 Earned Trust Formula I wrote about earlier this year — hours, frequency, touchpoints — but now with a real offer behind it.

Every week :

→ 1 live group call (1 hour) → Homework that moves the deal forward — not busywork, the actual next step toward your first client → Async coaching between calls : Loom reviews, peer feedback, direct answers from me → A community of people doing the exact same thing at the exact same time

That last point matters more than it sounds. Collective intelligence, as I keep learning from running communities, comes from looking in the same direction and aiming at a shared goal. We go from 1+1 = 2 to 1+1 > 2. I've seen it in every cohort I've run. Something shifts when people see others fighting the same dragon.

This is a pilot. My flagship program will be 12 weeks — covering all three dragon heads systematically. But you can't build a 12-week program in your head. Start, learn, improve. That's my sacred sequence for launching something new 😆

The Details

→ FORMAT : 5-week accelerator (pilot cohort)
→ START DATE : April 13, 2026
→ SEATS : 10 people
→ PRICE : $555
→ WHO : Technical founders & soloists running a service expertise who want to close their first $5k+ strategy engagement

If that's where you are, reply to this email with "5K" and I'll send you the details.

Let's slay some dragons 🐲⚔

Engineeringly Yours,

Othmane