Almost every entrepreneur community asks what you already make, which quietly turns away everyone still building the thing. We took that question out. What you get instead is a group of founders at the same point you are, sharing what is working, catching what is about to break, and getting further than any of us would alone.
Who is in an entrepreneur community decides whether the membership is worth paying for, so we choose carefully. Everyone here resigned from a 9 to 5 in the last 18 months, or has a departure date already set. Advice from someone 5 years ahead is interesting. Advice from someone 5 weeks ahead is usable.
The established founder communities all put a bar at the entrance, and for most of them it is a revenue number. It is a reasonable rule and it creates a real problem: the people who most need support are the ones it turns away. Here is what everyone asks for at the door.
$3M in revenue, $3M raised, or a $10M exit
$1M in revenue, as founder or majority owner
$100K in revenue and a location independent business
15 years of leadership experience at VP or C-suite level
No revenue requirement
Admission requirements as published by each organization at the time of our most recent review.
Taking the bar away only works if something replaces it. Ours is a published standard you can read before applying, plus monthly office hours with solo business owners who have already done it, which supplies the perspective an early group cannot supply for itself. That is the whole design. Here is the honest comparison, including where this loses.
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Large paid groups, free servers, follower communities
Screened on stage and on how you work
The levels differ only in how much direct guidance you want on top. Nothing here is ever removed to make a higher level look better.
Everyone arrived from the same place within the same 18 months, so the answers land on the problem in front of you instead of one you will have in 5 years.
Real member work read against the same 4 questions Plan A uses. Watching someone else get their pricing pulled apart is often more useful than having yours pulled apart, and by month 6 the archive is the most valuable thing in the membership.
The complete set from your first day at every level. Bought them already? That purchase credits in full toward your first year.
The isolation is the part nobody warns you about, and it does not get solved on a video call. Uncommon Salons are local story nights with a few speakers and real conversation. Members walk in free while everyone else pays $25.
One hour, once a month, with somebody running the kind of business you are building. You send your question ahead of time and it gets answered on the call. No keynote, no slides, no webinar funnel at the end.
6 systems for the 6 things every solo business has to get right. Built from what already worked twice, written so you set yours up correctly the first time instead of rebuilding it in year 2.
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Turn what you already know how to do into something a market will pay for repeatedly.
Find a market with buyers already spending and few competitors serving it.
Organic distribution when you have no budget, no agency and no team.
Close a deal in conversation without becoming someone you are not.
Survive long enough to find out, on a runway you can actually name.
Build so the business never routes entirely through you.
Already bought the set? Your purchase credits in full toward your first year. Nobody pays twice.
Everything in the section above comes with all 3. What changes is how much direct guidance you want on your own business. Annual only, because a community people join for a month and leave is not a community.
The community itself, and everything that comes with being part of it.
Annual, with a quarterly payment plan available
Includes:
A small standing group at your stage, meeting every month, where the work actually gets made.
Annual, with groups formed at each intake
Everything in The House, plus:
Private time on your business, plus first access to everything we run.
Annual, with admission by application
Everything in The Atelier, plus:
Your first 4 months are already covered by the program. Membership opens on day 1 of Plan A and stays open for 2 months after you finish, so the support does not stop at the exact moment you finally know what you are building.
Against the $895 public price for The House, locked for as long as you keep it going. Graduates are admitted automatically, so there is no second application.
What you get back depends on how much of the year you have used, and nothing else. No retention call, no form to hunt down, no renewal that happens quietly while you are not looking.
You can also pause once for up to 3 months and pick it back up. Your year freezes while you are paused.
First 30 days
Months 2 and 3
Months 4 to 6
Months 7 to 9
Months 10 to 12
Refunds are calculated on the level you are on. If you moved up mid year, we refund what you actually paid.
We are seating the first members ahead of opening properly, which means the founding group is small and you will know everyone in it by name. That is worth more in the first year than any number we could put on a page.
Join now and your rate is locked for life, for as long as you keep renewing, no matter how far the price moves later. You also get a say in how this runs, because the things that get decided early get decided with the founding members in the conversation.
What to expect
There is no revenue number to hit and nothing to inflate on a form. We are looking for 4 things, and an application that clears them is in regardless of what the business currently earns.
You resigned from full time employment in roughly the last 18 months, or you have a departure date already set. Building while you are still employed is completely fine and plenty of members are. What matters is that going out on your own is a decision you have made rather than one you are still weighing.
It does not have to be right yet, and plenty of members change direction in their first year. It does have to be specific enough that another member could push back on it and be useful.
Savings moved into a runway you can name, a sabbatical you negotiated, years of your career pointed at this. Members who arrive having already invested something tend to be the ones still building in year 2.
The value here comes from members answering each other, so this works best for people who enjoy that part. If you are the one who replies to somebody else’s problem at 11pm, you will get a lot out of this.
Plan A graduates qualify for Uncommon Company automatically on completion.
A membership that suits everyone suits nobody. Here is where a different option will serve you better, and we would rather you spent the money well.
No, and that is the point. Every comparable community asks for a revenue number at the door, which quietly excludes everyone still building. We look at your stage and at how you describe the work instead. Somebody at $0 with a specific answer gets in ahead of somebody at $200K with a vague one.
Most people should start at The House. It contains the community, the monthly reviews, the office hours and all 6 toolkits, which is the majority of the value. Move up to The Atelier when you want a standing group of 6 working on the same problems every month, and to The Front Row when you want private time on your own business. You can move up at any point and pay the difference.
Not for the first 4 months. Membership opens on day 1 of the program and stays open for 2 months after you finish. After that it renews at $595 a year against the $895 public price, locked for as long as you keep renewing. Graduates are admitted automatically, so there is no second application.
No. A standalone toolkit purchase credits in full toward your first year. If you bought the set, that amount comes straight off your first year of The House.
Because who is in it is the product. A membership people join for a month and leave is a chat app, and part of what you are paying for is that everyone else committed too. If the annual figure is the obstacle rather than the commitment, The House has a quarterly payment plan.
Admission runs 4 times a year rather than continuously, so there can be a wait of up to 3 months. That is deliberate. Everyone in an intake arrives together, and arriving together is most of what makes the first few months work.
Fair question, and plenty of memberships are exactly that. The parts that are not a chat: monthly reviews where real work gets read against a rubric, monthly office hours with solo business owners who already built one, all 6 toolkits, meetups and Salons in person. If you removed the chat entirely, those would still be worth the entry price.
Tell us in the first 30 days and you get the year back in full. After that we refund on a published sliding scale rather than a phone call with somebody trained to keep you.
Uncommon Salons are, free, every one of them, at every level. Uncommon Summit and Uncommon Retreats are ticketed separately, and The Front Row gets first booking on both.
The founders who move quickest are rarely the ones grinding hardest on their own. They are the ones who can ask a specific question on a Tuesday and have a useful answer by Wednesday, from somebody who solved it last month. That is what you are joining.
Leave your name and we will email you when the doors open, along with what founding members get that later members will not. No other mail, and one click to leave.
We will only use this to tell you about Uncommon Company.
Take 30 minutes on Google Meet. We will go through how you work now, which room inside Uncommon Company matches that, and what a month in it actually looks like.
Questions about the toolkits, Plan A, the membership, or whether any of this fits where you are right now. Send it here and a real person answers, usually within a day.
