Before we go any further, thank you for checking in.

Author Fight Club was built because I got tired of watching authors get bled by a fragmented, subscription-heavy industry.

Then I ran into an uncomfortable truth: if AFC was going to survive, eventually I would have to charge for it too.

That scared the hell out of me. I did not want to solve one problem for authors by recreating another one.

So I started asking a different question: what if growth could make a subscription cheaper instead of more expensive?

That question became Regression Pricing Theory.

I'm going to assume you've watched the three introductory videos. At the very least, I hope you've watched enough to understand why I built Author Fight Club, why Regression Pricing Theory exists, and why I've spent an absurd amount of time trying to build a subscription model that does not eventually turn around and bite the people it was built to serve.

If you haven't watched them yet, there's no harm. Go back and watch them when you're ready. They explain the bigger problem I'm trying to solve and why I think it is worth fighting.

Author Fight Club came first. The fear of eventually putting my hand in other people's pockets came next. Regression Pricing Theory grew out of that problem.

I believe AFC, running on Regression Pricing Theory, can challenge an industry that has become far too comfortable extracting money from authors before many of them have even earned a cent from their work.

I'm going to be direct with you, because there is no room for misunderstanding here.

AFC works, but I cannot keep carrying the entire thing alone.

Right now, The Forge is underway.

As we speak, I'm filling those seats with a handful of founding beta members to test the platform properly, challenge it, find the weak spots and help get the system ready for the people who come next.

The people who come next will be the Vanguard, perhaps even you.

So, when The Forge is established and far enough along...

The Vanguard opens.

Founding Vanguard Members

Regression Pricing Theory cannot be tested without paying subscribers.

The idea only becomes meaningful once real people are paying real subscription fees and we can measure what it actually costs to serve them over time.

That is what the Vanguard is for.

Vanguard members will be Author Fight Club's first paying founding subscribers, and the first group to help prove whether Regression Pricing Theory works in the real world.

This is bigger than getting AFC through launch.

If RPT works, we prove that subscription growth does not have to become an excuse to squeeze more money out of the people who made that growth possible. We prove there is another way.

I am deliberately keeping the founding cohort small enough that I can support it personally while AFC prepares for public launch.

There is a second reason for that restraint too. If AFC becomes successful and then one day gets hit by heavy cancellations, a recession, or some other ugly contraction, I want the founding base to remain supportable even in that worst-case scenario.

That is part of the covenant: build for success, but make promises that are designed to survive bad times too.

Okay, let's address the elephant in the room: the money.

Pricing makes people nervous because it is often difficult to see through. I do not want ours to be.

When Vanguard opens, membership is:

USD $17 per month

Your first payment is taken when you join.

This is not a pledge and it is not a saved-card reservation.

You become a paying founding member immediately.

You receive your own genuine Author Fight Club account with full access from day one.

Your payment details go directly to Stripe, our payment processor.

They are handled by Stripe, not by me, not by Author Fight Club, and certainly not by some back-room spreadsheet.

I never see them.

I never store them.

Let me break it down a little further.

Early rigorous testing suggests we will launch publicly at a ceiling price of around USD $25, give or take. Your Vanguard price is a reward for your commitment.

This is how it's going to work...

The Regression Pricing Theory formula will be proved using real-time usage metrics from Vanguard members. As I stated earlier, the formula needs subscribers to kick-start the mechanism, and I would rather use real data than any amount of forecast data, for everyone's sake. It is simply a more pragmatic approach.

When RPT is proved, made immutable and registered on a public ledger for all to see, we launch publicly together at whatever ceiling price RPT determines.

Then, while the RPT-regulated live price remains above USD $17, your Vanguard subscription remains at USD $17 per month.

When the live price eventually falls below your USD $17 entry threshold, you move onto the live price and ride the curve with everyone else from that point forward.

From there, as the live price moves, you move with it.

But here's the real payoff.

When the live price finally reaches the floor price etched in stone by RPT at launch, your Vanguard invoice drops to:

$0.00

You will still receive an invoice each month.

That invoice will read:

$0.00

I want it to keep arriving because I want the promise to remain visible.

I want you to see the system working.

No private discount dial. No discretionary founder override. No future version of me gets to rewrite the deal because it becomes inconvenient.

Regression Pricing Theory will be public, immutable and designed to govern the price by structure, not goodwill.

If the RPT-regulated live price later rises above the floor, you ride it back up with everyone else.

When it returns to the floor, your Vanguard invoice returns to $0.00.

That's the cycle.

If the storm ever comes, together, we keep the lights on.

When the curve recovers, the platform honours the people who helped lift it into existence.

Early Adopters

As Author Fight Club moves through the final lead-up to public launch, the Early Adopter doors will open.

If you decide that the Forge and the Vanguard are not for you, but you still want to get in before the dust has completely settled, this is your way in.

Join as an Early Adopter and you receive your own genuine Author Fight Club account with full access on launch day.

You join at the live ceiling RPT-regulated price, and because you joined during the Early Adopter period, you'll receive:

15% off your first three monthly invoices.

Whatever the live RPT-regulated price is for each of those first three billing cycles, your 15% Early Adopter discount is applied to it.

If the live price moves during those three months, your price moves with it, with the 15% discount still applied.

After your third discounted invoice, the incentive ends and you simply continue at the live RPT-regulated price with everyone else.

The Founding Early Adopter offer remains open for three months after Author Fight Club’s official public launch.

So you are not locking yourself into a special Early Adopter price.

You are stepping onto the same pricing curve as everyone else, just earlier, with a little thank-you from me for helping Author Fight Club make the jump from nearly there to properly alive.

You're early.

That deserves something.

A Few Pricing Things Worth Noting

Current modelling suggests that, after public launch, the live Author Fight Club subscription price will move within a projected range of roughly USD $6 to USD $25 per month, driven only by subscriber numbers.

Once again, those numbers are still projections. They are not yet final.

The live price will rise and fall with subscriber numbers, and subscriber numbers alone. Regression Pricing Theory governs that movement, not some executive waking up one morning, noticing you still haven’t cancelled, and deciding your loyalty probably has another $1.99 a month left in it.

Before public launch, the RPT formula will be reviewed, challenged and independently validated as part of Forge testing, particularly by the applied-mathematics specialist.

Once that work is complete, the final price range, including the launch price, will be published to a public ledger for all to see.

From that point forward, the RPT formula governs the price.

Not me.

A Few Other Things Worth Noting

The Fight Engine inside Author Fight Club is not a toy.

The Fight Engine at its core is a serious writing environment built around the entire life cycle of a manuscript. You write it here, develop it here, revise it here, prepare it for submission or publication here, and take it all the way to a finished product without needing to leave Author Fight Club.

Its Manuscript Engine handles that work from first words to final manuscript. It supports industry-standard formatting, tolerates some fringe properties with warnings, and flags anything outside those bounds as non-compliant.

Around that sits a fully customisable work console for the rest of the writing life: other creative and administrative pipelines, timers, idea capture features, prompt management, AI assistance, character development, social-media drafting tools and the other strange bits of machinery writers somehow accumulate when one book turns into an obsession.

Then there is the community side.

The Lounge gives members somewhere to meet, talk, work together and help each other grow through video and audio conferencing, and chat.

The Library is where your manuscripts live. You can keep them private, share them with selected members, hold conversations inside the manuscript itself, or open work to the wider community if you choose.

The Classroom is there for the part nobody warns you about properly: learning the platform, learning the industry, and figuring out what the hell really happens after “The End.”

AI is part of Author Fight Club too, but it is there to assist the work, not replace the writer.

The platform already supports AI-assisted editorial work, including chapter-by-chapter editorial passes across an entire manuscript, and BYOK if you prefer to connect your own AI provider.

But the next major ambition is Mickey Scholar, Author Fight Club's own private AI language model.

Mickey is still a dream in my mind, not a launch promise.

Everything else I’ve just mentioned is already built and working. It's simply waiting for people brave enough to come in and start throwing knives at it.

One Last Thing

I'm not some mythical cyber ghost floating behind the machinery.

I'm a real person.

I'm an author.

I'm also the idiot who decided to build this entire platform himself because apparently finishing a book was not enough punishment for one lifetime.

And I'm monitoring that chat over there. 👉🏼

Or if you're viewing this on a mobile device, that chat down there at the bottom of the page. 👇🏼

Not a bot.

Not a support department.

Not a carefully sanitised FAQ pretending to have a pulse.

Me.

If something is unclear, ask me.

If the Vanguard offer feels uncertain, ask me.

If one of the membership paths sounds right but you need to understand the details before committing, ask me.

I would rather have an honest conversation now than have anyone join Author Fight Club under a misunderstanding.

I'm not knowingly hiding anything from you.

Nothing is off the table for discussion.

This platform was built out of the sheer frustration of writing a novel, trying to get it seen, and almost being swallowed up by the system. Sound familiar?

This is not some cute little side project.

It is a genuine fight to disrupt an industry that has become far too comfortable profiting from the people doing the creative work.

If any of that moves you, even a little, choose the path below that fits you best.

Only genuine participants, please.

Is this a leap of faith? Yes, a small one.

Then again, isn't every book worth writing?