Free · About 3 minutes

What must be true before you leave the paycheck?

Map the life your salary quietly supports, the contribution one sale actually leaves, and whether the work fits your protected hours. Then see the runway and repeatability gaps still standing between you and the leap.

A planning model from The Launch System, not a promise that it is safe to quit. Your financial inputs stay in your browser unless you choose to save a private report.

01The whole number

Replace essentials and lost benefits, add your comfort buffer and tax reserve, then include fixed business overhead. The output distinguishes owner pay from business contribution.

02The Calendar Spill Test

Price is not contribution, and available hours are not all delivery hours. See exactly how many customers fit—and which ones spill outside the life you meant to protect.

03Three gates, not one magic number

Compare current proof, consecutive months at target, and liquid runway. Try price or delivery levers without mistaking a modeled scenario for market proof.

What yours will look like
The number stack
Personal after-tax target$6,000life + benefits + buffer
requires
Pre-tax owner pay$8,000with tax reserve
inside
Business contribution target$8,750after direct costs
$4,250 MONTHLY GAP

Gross revenue cannot close it. The remaining gap has to come from contribution after delivery costs.

The Calendar Spill Test
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
+3 customershave nowhere to go inside the protected week.
Your ambition is not too high. Your offer's physics are wrong.
The Freedom Runway Map

The number is only useful if the business can carry it.

Count the life your paycheck quietly pays for, run the contribution and capacity physics of one sale, and see whether the business fits the hours you are willing to live.

About 3 minutes · Free · Financial inputs stay in your browser unless you choose to save the report