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[CCA] Saturday Reset - Issue #032

Published about 2 months ago • 2 min read

Hi Reader,
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Two and a half days.

By Tuesday morning the founding price is gone — $297 becomes $497, and the direct-reply line I built into the founding stack closes with it.

Let me make this clean.

What Closes Monday Night

Mon Jun 8, 11:59pm ET. Three things end at that moment:

  1. Founding price. $297 on AIS, $297 on Stay Sharp. Tuesday Jun 9 at 6am ET, both step up to $497 standard.
  2. The direct-reply line. Thirty days of “I’m stuck on this” email access to me — that’s the founding-cohort bonus, and it closes for new buyers Tuesday.
  3. Stay Sharp cap progress. Whatever seats remain after Mon night carry forward to the August Wave-2 window (cart Aug 10–23). SS is the only product with real cumulative scarcity.

No countdown timer. No fake “12 hour flash sale.” Three concrete things, one specific date.

One thing that doesn’t close Monday: the Pack Library bonus I added this week. Both waves get it — so it’s not a reason to rush. But founding buyers get the first drop (the Foundation Pack and the Cadence Pack) by June 15, and buying now just starts that clock earlier.

A Word If You’re on the Fence

I built both products for a specific person.

For AIS — a solopreneur who’s been using AI tools inconsistently and wants the workflows you’ve been promising yourself to build, in 8 weeks not 8 quarters.

For Stay Sharp — a practitioner who’s noticed something’s off about their own work. Faster, polished, slightly less yours. The guardrails you wish you’d installed six months ago, before you noticed the drift. The bet underneath it: you get sharper using the tool — not quietly outsourced to yourself.

If you’ve been reading these emails for months and one of those two sentences described you when you read it — you don’t need another newsletter from me to decide. You know. And if you ran the two-question test I sent Wednesday, you already know which quadrant you’re standing in; I’m not going to add urgency to something that honest.

If neither described you, I respect the self-knowledge. The summer is long; we’ll cross paths over content. No pressure on Monday night.

The Quiet Promise

Most AI courses make loud promises. Here’s my quiet one.

Six months from now, you’ll still sound like you. Your clients will still pay you for the specific thing only you can do. You’ll be shipping more of it, faster, with less friction.

That’s the bet. That’s the whole bet.

Two Doors

Cart closes Mon Jun 8, 11:59pm ET.

Excelsior,

Pierre/​
Founder, Curio Chat Academy

P.S.: After Monday night nothing dramatic happens — same courses, same delivery, same 30-day refund. Just the price changes and the direct-reply line closes. If those two are the difference between yes and not-yet, that’s the call to make this weekend.

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