Europe · €50k to €150k · sales, marketing, recruiting, RevOps
Stop wasting a European salary
I turned mine into a seven-figure investment portfolio without a business, inheritance or IPO. I'll show you 5 steps to speedrun your way to financial freedom as an employee.
The book is €29 once. The community is optional.
Fifteen years on a payslip. No exit, no inheritance, no crypto.
- 15 yrs
- On a payslip
- €243k
- Best year, on a €50k base
- 1st
- Of 250+ AEs globally at Deel
- €16,143/mo
- Passive income, from a salary
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 you already own the most underrated and underused asset — your job.
How this works
The book is the whole map. The community is company while you execute it. Your call which parts you use.
Step 01
Read the book
Ten modules and the five levers I used to turn a payslip into a €1M+ portfolio. One weekend of reading.
Step 02
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 03
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 04
Join the newsletter
Free
The latest AI tool reviews and quick, actionable tips that actually help you make more money in your role.
Step 05
Join the community
Optional · €29/mo
The 9-5 Fastlane room. People running the same plan, keeping you honest while you execute yours.
€29 once · 7 day refund, no questions
Against the alternatives
The room, the answers and the events are the optional community, €29/mo. The book is the system either way.
Limited offer
- ✓The full book: ten modules you can read in a weekend
- ✓The five levers behind a seven-figure portfolio built on a payslip
- ✓Ten ready-to-run prompts that build your personal AI Wealth Agent
- ✓Your 90-day plan, tailored to your career, industry and skills
- ✓Every template, script and question bank included
- ✓Seven day refund, no questions asked
Secure checkout via Stripe · one-off payment, yours forever
Why it is only €29
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.
At €2,500 there is enormous pressure on both sides. You need it to change your life and I need to promise that it will.
One more thing. I always appreciate early supporters and try to be one myself whenever I believe in what somebody is building. So the first 50 of you get it at €29 instead of €49. Same book, same prompts. You just paid less for being early.
Free, no account needed
One lunch conversation found me €3,501 a month.
A colleague mentioned over lunch that he was not an employee. I went home and opened a salary calculator.
My employer was spending €8,501 a month on me. I was seeing €5,000.
Same job, same salary. €3,501 a month I had never once looked at.
- Find your own number in twenty minutes
- What closing the gap is worth over ten years
Optional · €29/mo
You don't have to go through your journey alone
The book stands on its own. But the research 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.
Social accountability
We are wired to care about how we look to our peers. Not wanting to look lazy in front of the room is exactly what gets you to show up on the days motivation doesn't.
A bigger reward
Neuroscience shows that having peers around activates the brain's reward circuits. Celebrating a milestone with a community hits harder than celebrating alone.
Shared brainpower
Wharton research shows groups are remarkably efficient at solving hard, complex problems. When you get stuck, the room's pooled knowledge is what stops you from quitting.
A monthly call with the whole community. A free workshop every two weeks with somebody who is best in their field and does the work every day. Practitioners, not hyped-up gurus.
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
Secrets behind x2 President's Club
Renita Käsper
How recruiters actually screen your CV
Rui Vas
Making AI your powerful co-pilot
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 paddle out and start talking shop between waves. 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, no name tags. 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 and not €49?+
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.
Do I have to join the community?+
No. The book, the prompts and the 90-day plan stand on their own. The community is for people who want company while they execute: €29/mo, cancel in two clicks, join whenever it makes sense.
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 buy?+
The book and the ten prompts land in your inbox immediately. Read it over a weekend, run the prompts on your own numbers and walk out with a 90-day plan.
Can I get a refund?+
Seven days, no questions. Message me on LinkedIn.
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: €29 once, readable in a weekend, yours forever.
7 day refund, no questions
€29 once
First 50 copies. Then €49.