Dealoneby Belkins
Cohort 001 · proposed terms · no purchase path

Every proposed price, trigger, and limit, before anything is available.

These terms are published for validation and consistency. No package is currently available to apply for or purchase, and no card or payment path exists on this site.

Not currently available. The prices below remain proposed terms until contracting, privacy, payment, delivery, and refund controls have cleared the published launch gates.

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Most of the money moves at the end.

The intended ladder starts at zero, places the sprint before any optional continuation, and moves the close fee only after collected cash. It describes the model under review, not a live offer.

Before you apply Teardown and the signal-stack builder. No card, no email gate. $0
Optional, any time First-Customer Workshop. Self-serve, and not a route into the cohort. $199
At acceptance Deal Sprint. Fourteen days, eight operator hours, capped in writing. $1,000
Only if you opt in Live Desk, per month, three months maximum, then it stops itself. $600
After a buyer pays you Close fee. A share of cash already in your account. Floor $1,250, cap $2,500. 25%
When you outgrow us Graduation into the Belkins deal desk, at Belkins pricing. $0

The bars are proportional to price, not to value. The last row is the only one that can be larger than the ones above it, and it cannot be charged a day before a stranger has paid you.

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The five rungs, in full.

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Proposed free artifact

The Teardown

Free

Not currently accepting submissions.

Proposed artifact
One public product analysis with dated buying signals and up to three named target accounts. The browser-only signal-stack builder remains available without an email address.
Proposed charge
$0. No intake or purchase path exists today.
Refund
Nothing to refund.
Right for you if
You want to watch the method run before you spend anything, or you want to see whether your product produces any signal at all, or you are one of the many people the hard gates will refuse and you would rather learn the work than buy it.
Future privacy boundary
A selected product would be named in public. The proposed artifact excludes personal contact data and written sequences.
01
Proposed workshop

First-Customer Workshop

$199

One time. Not currently available.

Proposed deliverable
A live 90 minute recorded session where Vlad would run the method on three products. The intended outputs are the recording, three worked buyer maps, and the workbook.
Proposed charge trigger
A future direct purchase, after the price, refund, entity, and payment terms are cleared. No card path exists today.
Proposed refund
The draft term is a full refund before the session and no refund after delivery. This remains unconfirmed and no purchase page exists.
Right for you if
Your first deal is worth less than $5,000, or you are pre-product, or you are building for consumers, or you applied and we said no. It is also right if you clear every gate but would rather run the work yourself and keep the $1,000.
Relationship to the sprint
A future workshop purchase would not reserve a seat, change screening, or reduce the proposed $1,000 sprint price.
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Proposed engagement

Deal Sprint

$1,000

Fourteen-day design. Not currently available.

Proposed deliverable
A kickoff call, buyer-signal map, three best-evidenced buyers with dated artifacts, a four-step sequence for founder approval, a deliverability pre-check, and a delivery call. The proposed scope is capped at eight operator hours.
Proposed charge trigger
Acceptance under cleared terms, before kickoff. The intended mandate would disclose the $2,500 per-account ceiling and require authenticated consent. It is not implemented or available today.
Proposed refunds
Draft terms specify a full refund after a missed 336-hour delivery deadline, $333 per missing evidenced buyer or an elected full refund, and return of sprint and desk fees after zero booked meetings by day 45. These controls are not operational yet.
Right for you if
All six gates are true: live product a stranger could pay for today, a business buyer with a job title, a first deal worth $5,000 or more in year one, live payment infrastructure, zero lifetime collected revenue, and a product that is not in a refused category.
Skip it if
Any one of those is false, or you will not be on the calls yourself. The most common reason we decline someone is that they want us to sell for them. Pre-revenue, you are the only person alive who can answer the questions a first customer asks.
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Proposed optional continuation

Live Desk

$600 / month

Drafted as monthly opt-in, capped at three months. Not available.

Proposed deliverable
Sequence scheduling, reply drafting, weekly list refresh, and live-call support, capped at six operator hours a month. The founder would send every message.
Proposed charge trigger
Explicit opt-in each month. Silence would not renew it, and the third month would be the hard stop.
Proposed refund
No partial months. The drafted day-45 zero-meeting refund would include every desk month. The required control does not exist yet.
Right for you if
The sprint has landed, replies are coming in, and the place you are stuck is the live conversation. Founders freeze at the price question. That is what this rung is for.
Skip it if
You want someone to send as you or sell as you. We do neither, ever, on any account. Skip it also if you cannot take live calls inside your buyer's business hours, because the whole product is a second person on the call.
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Proposed outcome fee

Close Fee

25% of cash collected

Floor $1,250. Cap $2,500 per account. Not active.

Proposed basis
No new deliverable. The draft fee is part of the intended pricing model for the operator work.
Proposed charge trigger
Written founder confirmation that cash from a sourced account landed. A future authenticated mandate would disclose the $2,500 ceiling. No mandate or card path exists today.
Proposed refund
Draft terms treat the fee as non-refundable after collection, except for a documented customer refund within 30 days. Counsel and payment operations have not cleared this term.
Intended eligibility
Only a cleared Deal Sprint under versioned terms could activate this fee.
When it remains zero
No sourced close means no close fee.
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Proposed exit

Graduation Handoff

$0

No-fee design. Not currently available.

Proposed handoff
A no-fee introduction to the Belkins deal desk at Belkins pricing, carrying the validated buyer, message, and objection artifacts.
Proposed trigger
Three sourced closes, a first sales hire, or volume beyond one operator.
Commercial boundary
Nothing would be charged for the introduction. Dealone pricing would not transfer to a Belkins engagement.
Intended buyer state
A founder who has moved from first-deal evidence to repeatability.
Current state
Unavailable. This page is not an offer from Belkins or a discount against one.
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A future workshop purchase would not improve screening.

The future screening design would evaluate the product and buyer, not prior spend. A live product, business signer, first-year deal of at least $5,000, and evidence of specific buyer pain would remain the inputs.

The proposed $199 would not be a deposit, count toward the $1,000 sprint, hold a seat, or move anyone higher in a queue. No workshop purchase or screening queue exists today.

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Three worked examples, so the arithmetic is unambiguous.

Every number below is an example. None of it is an average, a projection, or a result anybody has had. There are no customers yet, and the counter on the home page reads zero for that reason. None of the three include the $199 workshop, because it is not a step on this path.

Example A. Your first deal is worth $6,000 in year one.

Example inputs: you are accepted and pay the sprint, you opt into the desk for two months, and a sourced buyer signs a $6,000 annual contract paying you $500 a month.

LineAmountWhen
Deal Sprint$1,000At acceptance, before kickoff
Live Desk, 2 months$1,200Monthly, only because you opted in
Close fee, month 1$12525% of the $500 that landed
Close fee, months 2 to 12$1,375$125 each month, as each $500 lands
Total close fee$1,50025% of $6,000. Above the $1,250 floor, under the $2,500 cap, so neither applies
Total paid to Dealone$3,700Against $6,000 collected. You keep $2,300 in year-one cash, plus the customer

The fee applies to the first year of that contract only. If the customer renews, year two is $6,000 to you and nothing to us.

Example B. Your first deal is worth $18,000 in year one.

Example inputs: you run the desk for the full three months, which is the maximum, and a sourced buyer signs an $18,000 annual contract paying you $1,500 a month.

LineAmountWhen
Deal Sprint$1,000At acceptance, before kickoff
Live Desk, 3 months$1,800Monthly. It stops itself after the third
Close fee, months 1 to 6$2,250$375 a month, 25% of each $1,500 that lands
Close fee, month 7$250Not $375. The cap is $2,500 and $2,250 was already charged, so we take the remaining $250 and stop
Close fee, months 8 to 12$0The cap is reached. Nothing further is charged on this account, ever
Total paid to Dealone$5,300Against $18,000 collected. You keep $12,700 in year-one cash, plus the customer

The bigger the deal, the smaller our share of it. On a $6,000 deal the fee is a full 25%. On an $18,000 deal the cap cuts it to 13.9%. On a $40,000 deal it would be 6.25%.

Example C. Nothing closes.

Two very different failures, priced very differently.

C1. We booked you meetings and none turned into money.

LineAmount
Deal Sprint$1,000
Live Desk, 2 months$1,200
Close fee$0
Total paid$2,200

You keep the buyer-signal map, the three buyers with their dated evidence, the four-step sequence in your voice, and the deliverability findings. We earn nothing further. That asymmetry is precisely what stops us taking on founders we cannot help.

C2. We booked you no meetings at all by day 45.

LineAmount
Deal Sprint$1,000, refunded
Live Desk, 2 months$1,200, refunded
Close fee$0
Total paid$0

Under the draft term, the refund would be initiated within five working days after the day-45 trigger. The operating control is not built or available.

The proposed missing-buyer term would return $333 per unevidenced buyer or allow a founder-elected full sprint refund. This remains a draft term pending legal and operational clearance.

05

What counts as a deal we sourced.

One sentence, agreed in writing before any work starts. It is the only definition of a sourced deal that exists anywhere in your terms.

If a company we put on your list and messaged for you (one you had not already named as an existing contact before we sent that list) pays you under a contract signed within 90 days of our last message to them, we take 25% of what you actually collect in that contract's first year, minimum $1,250, maximum $2,500, charged only after you tell us the money landed; every other deal you close is yours alone.

What that sentence explicitly excludes

Anyone you already knew
You name your existing contacts before the list is delivered, with three business days to do it. Every name on that excluded list is off the table permanently.
Deals from anywhere else
Your own network, your inbound, your own outbound, a referral, a conference. If we did not put the company on your list and message it for you, it is yours alone.
Anything after 90 days
The window runs from our last qualifying touch to that company, not from the day you signed up.
Money you have not received
The fee is on cash collected, never on contract value. A signed $50,000 contract that has paid you nothing produces a fee of zero.
Refunds, chargebacks and tax
Collected revenue is net of all three. Refund your own customer within 30 days with documentation and our share comes back pro rata.
Year two
The 25% applies to the first year of that contract only.
Anything we found on our own
We charge on your written confirmation, never on our own discovery. No confirmation, no charge.
Genuine ambiguity
If it is honestly unclear whether a deal is sourced, it is not sourced. Every charge carries a seven-day dispute window, and ending the engagement ends the stored card mandate.
06

Five ways to get a first customer, and who each is actually built for.

OptionWho it is built forWhat you payWhen you payWho is on the call
Lead-gen platforms and pay-per-lead agenciesFunded sales teams that already have a pipeline and somebody to work itPer lead, or a platform fee with a seat minimum, usually on an annual commitmentUp front, or on delivery of each lead, before anyone has replied to anythingYour SDR. If you do not have an SDR, nobody
Sales coaches and coursesAnyone who will pay for a frameworkA course fee, or a monthly coaching retainerUp front, before the first sessionYou, alone. Coaching happens before and after the call, never during it
Fractional SDRs and freelance closersCompanies that can fund a monthly retainer regardless of what it producesA monthly retainer, often with commission on topMonthly, in advance, whether or not anything sellsA contractor, not you. Which is a problem the moment the buyer's first question is a product question
Self-serve prospecting toolsOperators who already know their buyer and already know their messageA subscription, plus credits or enrichment volumeMonthly, in advance, from the day you log inNobody. It is software. We pay for these tools ourselves and use them on your behalf
Doing it yourselfEveryone, by default, because it is what is leftNo money. Your weeksContinuously, and you only find out the price afterwardsYou, alone, hearing the objection for the first time
Dealone by BelkinsOne solo founder, one live B2B product, zero collected revenue, a first deal worth $5,000 or more$1,000 sprint. Optional $600 a month desk, three months maximum. Then 25% of cash you actually collect, floor $1,250, cap $2,500 per accountSprint at acceptance. Desk only in the months you opt in. The fee only after you confirm money landedYou, and Vlad, live, prompting you while the buyer is still talking
07

Six questions about the money.

What would happen if nothing closes?

Under the proposed terms, meetings without a close would leave the sprint and elected desk fees paid, with no close fee. Zero booked meetings by day 45 would trigger return of sprint and desk fees inside five working days. The refund workflow must be operationally verified before the offer opens.

Why is the fee on cash collected rather than on contract value?

Because your first customer will almost certainly pay you monthly. On a $6,000 annual contract at $500 a month, a fee charged on contract value would take $1,250 off you seven days after $500 arrived. You would be paying us out of your own pocket for the privilege of having made a sale, which breaks the one promise this whole thing rests on. So the fee tracks money that has actually landed: 25% of each collection, charged after you confirm it, with the floor accruing across collections instead of being charged up front. We are never paid before you are.

Would the $199 workshop buy a seat or move someone up the list?

No. The proposed workshop is not an application, deposit, or credit toward the $1,000 sprint. It is also not currently available.

Why can I not pay for the Deal Sprint?

Four seats, eight operator hours each. Sell that to anyone with a card and most of those hours go to products that cannot be sold to a stranger yet, while the founders who could have been helped do not get in. The application is not open. When the release gates clear, screening is intended to protect the four-seat capacity and return a recorded decision. No response-time promise applies before that workflow is operational.

What is the proposed maximum?

The draft model sets the sprint at $1,000 once. The desk would be $600 a month and stop after the third, so $1,800 at most. The close fee is capped at $2,500 per sourced account, and hitting that cap on one account means that account has already paid you $10,000 or more. If all three of your sprint buyers pay you that much, the fee side reaches $7,500 and you have collected at least $30,000 from three strangers who did not know your product existed.

One honest caveat: a Live Desk refreshes the list every week, so it can add sourced accounts, and each new one carries the same 25%, the same $1,250 floor and the same $2,500 cap. If you do not want more sourced accounts on the meter, tell us to stop refreshing the list and we stop.

When would a card be charged?

The proposed sprint charge would occur after acceptance under cleared terms and before kickoff. A future authenticated mandate would disclose the $2,500 per-account ceiling. Desk months would require explicit opt-in, and close fees would follow written confirmation of collected cash. No card, mandate, or checkout exists today.

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Which one is yours?

Three doors, and picking the wrong one costs you either money or weeks.

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No application, card, or payment path is active. Published figures are proposed terms, not an invitation to purchase.