From inside the firms that built the modern 9-5 trap

From inside the firms that built the modern 9-5 trap

A roadmap to financial freedom,
engineered for plug-and-play.

A roadmap to financial freedom,
engineered for plug-and-play.

A roadmap to
financial freedom,
engineered for plug-and-play.

The elites have modelled your entire financial life to horrific precision.
From the salary bands that hard-cap your 40-year career,
To the valuation models that turn your time into someone else’s profit.

Your boss calculates how much freedom you’re allowed to have before reeling you back in.

The elites have modelled your entire financial life to horrific precision.
From the salary bands that hard-cap your 40-year career,
To the valuation models that turn your time into someone else’s profit.

Your boss calculates how much freedom you’re allowed to have before reeling you back in.

The elites have modelled your entire financial life to horrific precision.
From the salary bands that hard-cap your 40-year career,
To the valuation models that turn your time into someone else’s profit.

Your boss calculates how much freedom you’re allowed to have before reeling you back in.

So we took their methods and turned it into
a playbook you can use to print money.

So we took their methods and turned it into
a playbook you can use to print money.

700+ copies in circulation worldwide | 88% finish rate
among our readers who are escaping the endless 9-5

700+ copies in circulation worldwide | 88% finish rate
among our readers who are escaping the endless 9-5

4.8/5

Who We Are

Who We Are

Who We Are

We built the system. And then we broke it.

We built the system.
And then we broke it.

Our team consists of a former private equity intern and a software engineer,
and we used to build the models that quietly run your life.

We modelled dopamine curves to predict your engagement. Learned how to map your behaviour to formulae and how to price your freedom with a spreadsheet.

Then one day, we stopped building for them. We took everything we’d learned: the psychological feedback loops, automation blueprints, and purposed it for public use.

Enter Mapping the Secret Economy, a starting-from-zero roadmap to financial freedom, psychologically engineered to hook you into execution.

Before you can get started, you need to see exactly how rigged the game is.

Our team consists of a former private equity intern and a software engineer,
and we used to build the models that quietly run your life.

We modelled dopamine curves to predict your engagement. Learned to price your freedom with a spreadsheet.

We took everything we’d learned: the psychological feedback loops, automation blueprints, and purposed it for public use.

This project became Mapping the Secret Economy, a starting-from-zero roadmap to financial freedom, psychologically engineered to hook you into execution.

Before you can get started, you need to see exactly how rigged the game is.

You're on a 40-year road to wealth

You're on a 40-year road to wealth

You're on a 40-year road to wealth

You were never meant to win.
Employment will
turn you into a slave

You’re trading a non-scalable asset (time) for a capped cashflow stream (the worst exchange ratio in finance)

Your salary is priced to the nearest replaceable margin, optimised for your boss' profits — not yours

Every promotion just resets the leash: slightly higher pay, exponentially higher dependency

The longer you stay, the deeper the lock-in effect compounds

Time working

Money earned

You were never meant to win.
Employment will
turn you into a slave

You’re trading a non-scalable asset (time) for a capped cashflow stream (the worst exchange ratio in finance)

Your salary is priced to the nearest replaceable margin, optimised for your boss' profits — not yours

Every promotion just resets the leash: slightly higher pay, exponentially higher dependency

The longer you stay, the deeper the lock-in effect compounds

Time working

Money earned

Employment will make you a slave

You’re trading a non-scalable asset (time) for a capped cashflow stream (the worst exchange ratio in finance

Your salary is priced to the nearest replaceable margin, optimised for your boss' profits — not yours

Every promotion just resets the leash: slightly higher pay, exponentially higher dependency

The longer you stay, the deeper the lock-in effect compounds

Your way out

Your way out

Your way out

You live inside an engine.

Like all engines, it is perfectly predictable — and thus exploitable.
1 —The dopamine economy keeps you distracted.
2 — Capitalism keeps you dependent.
The system is evil and efficient, but once you understand its structure,
3 — You can use its rules to engineer freedom.

Layer 1
Your brain: hijacked, monetised

The illusion of progress is the first product you’re sold.
Every app, metric, and “productivity system” runs on a behavioural exploit: reward unpredictably → keep the subject engaged → harvest attention.
You were taught to chase focus.
But focus is the trap.
They don’t get paid when you're successful. They get paid when you keep consuming.

11 chapters total:

1) The Chemical Prison — How dopamine loops create the illusion of momentum while draining willpower.
2) The Productivity Delusion — Why “discipline” is a chemical equation, not a character trait.
3) The Infinite Scroll Economy — The architecture of attention, and how to opt out without isolating yourself.

and 8 more…

Layer 2
Money circulates predictably

To the exact dollar, someone already calculated the maximum rent you’ll tolerate, the minimum salary to keep you grinding.
Finance is in a solved state: models have reliably predicted how capital flows. It was never designed for your freedom, only for their profit.
Unless you know exactly how it works, you're only making the suit-and-tie executives richer.

10 chapters total:

1) The Four Levers of Capital — Time, Information, Distribution, and Code: assets that scale faster than labor.
2) The Inflation Metagame — Why inflation is a harvest cycle transferring value from savers to strategists.
3) The Capital Veins — The invisible liquidity map running beneath society, and why you’re not on it.

and 7 more…

Layer 3
Wealth is just plug-and-play

The people who built the system don’t “work” inside it. They create their own.
Every corporation, fund, and empire runs on the same principle: create a closed feedback loop that compounds without direct input.
Once you understand the link beneath attention and capital, you can engineer your own micro-economy: one that self-earns, self-grows, and scales infinitely.

13 chapters total:

1) System Architecture — How to design a self-reinforcing money flywheel where inputs create exponential outputs (time becomes an equity instrument).
2) Distribution Engineering — How to wire algorithms and incentive loops so your work circulates itself.
3) The Closed Loop Principle — Building compounding systems that grow scale, and make money while you’re sleeping.

and 10 more…

What path will you be happy with?

What path will you be happy with?

What path will you be happy with?

You've seen the options.

Each of these systems promises progress.
But none were designed for your freedom, only for the profit of its creators.

The college or university detour

College or university detour

You’re funnelled into old knowledge that’s already been automated, paying six figures to learn what a few lines of Python and a $20 OpenAI API key can now replace.
(Further reading: AI 2027)

The 9-to-5 trap

Eight hours a day, you sell your freedom to a system for a fraction of their profits. Your career's limit was predicted before you started. Every “promotion” manipulates your dopamine circuits into a soul-crushing linear time exchange.

The odd finance guru

They make money teaching you how to chase it. Their business is optimised to keep you watching, not winning. The entire content machine runs on cheap dopamine: short-term motivational slop, zero technical value.

They make money teaching you how to chase it. The entire content machine runs on cheap dopamine: short-term motivational slop, zero technical value.

Reading books endlessly

Knowledge without execution.
You’ve probably read enough to start ten companies. But without a system that executes for you, you’re just building mental inventory. Your “learning” here is largely irrelevant fluff soon-forgotten without action.

You’ve read enough to start ten companies. But without a system that executes for you, you’re just on a speedrun to burnout and cognitive overload.

Online course modules

The 9-to-5 in pretty colours.
Most of them are prettier jobs: you still trade time for cash, just with better UI design. Algorithms decide your reach, burnout decides your lifespan. You don’t own a business. You own a hamster wheel.

The 9-to-5 in pretty colours.
Most of them are prettier jobs: you still trade time for cash, just with better UI design.

Plug-and-play... and watch the magic happen

Plug-and-play... and watch the magic happen

Plug-and-play... and watch the magic happen

Here's what they're hiding from you

Each secret these colleges and firms used to imprison you?
They still work, but only for their profit. That's why they kept you stuck for so long.
Here they are, all laid out for your benefit in the Secret Economy.

Master Your Brain Forever

Engineered for 88% completion rate among readers, hacking your reward system.

The "5-minute action loop" trains your dopamine circuits to crave 4-hour deep work over mind-numbing social media.

Chapters end with a micro-variable reward, same pattern TikTok uses to addict you, inverted to make you addicted to progress.

Exclusive at the Secret Economy.

Engineered for 88% completion rate by hacking your reward system.

Chapters end with a micro-variable reward, calibrated on a 37-second feedback delay, the same pattern TikTok uses to addict you, inverted to make you addicted to progress.

A Secret Economy exclusive.

Think Once, Scale Infinitely

The 1/2 a page Gemini API workflow that replaces 3 interns.

A half-page prompt built at a fintech firm automates market scans, Excel models, and client reports with 96% accuracy.

You’ll rebuild it from scratch: prompt state, verification chain, cost-per-token optimisation, then clone the structure for your own product.

Never released to the public outside of the Secret Economy.

Print Money with the Flywheel

Print Money with Flywheels

How to make your money work like code.

Stop saving after spending.
Instead, plug-and-play this: automate a loop that reallocates cash within 72 hours of hitting your account into assets that self-generate cashflow.

(It’s the same compounding rhythm used inside small PE funds and SaaS portfolios, just stripped down for one bank account.)

Only found inside the Secret Economy.

Make your money work like code.

Stop saving after spending.
Instead, plug-and-play this: automate a loop that reallocates cash within 72 hours of hitting your account into assets that self-generate cashflow.

Only found inside the Secret Economy.

What is the price of freedom?

What is the price of freedom?

What is the price of freedom?

Join the new movement.

Build the system that will set you free, once and forever.

The Operator's Edition

Bestseller

USD$49 previously USD$89

Get the full Mapping the Secret Economy.
A three-books-in-one system that converts pure information into wealth. Just plug-and-play.

Deliberately priced low because the ultimate goal is to circulate, not gatekeep (rationale behind this explained in chapter 9 of TCE).

'Dopamine Economy' + 'Capital: A Solved State Metagame' + 'The Creation Engine'

Lifetime updates monthly to reflect shifting economic and behavioural trends

Automation blueprints from trailblazer startups to compress weeks of work into hours

Chapters engineered via variable reward loops to psychologically force you into action

The Architect's Edition

USD$299

The verified infrastructure version of the system.
Includes everything from Operator, expanded with internal data, case validation, and strategic field notes used to build the documentation itself.

Internal case studies, source data and test environments that shaped the core model

Annotated decision-tree library, the scaffolding behind the prompts

Meta-commentary from early operators: exactly what models failed, what printed money

Priority channel, scheduled strategic call for calibration & alignment

The Operator's Edition

Bestseller

USD$49 previously USD$99

Get the full Mapping the Secret Economy.
A three-books-in-one system that converts pure information into wealth. Just plug-and-play.

Deliberately priced low because the ultimate goal is to circulate, not gatekeep (rationale behind this explained in chapter 9 of TCE).

'Dopamine Economy' + 'Capital: A Solved State Metagame' + 'The Creation Engine'

Lifetime updates monthly to reflect shifting economic and behavioural trends

Automation blueprints from trailblazer startups to compress weeks of work into hours

Chapters engineered via variable reward loops to psychologically force you into action

USD$49
previously USD$89

Get the full Mapping the Secret Economy.
A three-books-in-one system that converts pure information into wealth. Just plug-and-play.

Deliberately priced low because the ultimate goal is to circulate, not gatekeep (rationale behind this explained in chapter 9 of TCE).

'Dopamine Economy' + 'Capital: A Solved State Metagame' + 'The Creation Engine'

Lifetime updates monthly to reflect shifting economic trends

Automation blueprints to compress weeks of work into hours

Chapters engineered via variable reward loops to psychologically force you into action

Testimonials from beta readers

Testimonials from beta readers

Testimonials from beta readers

Proof the system is already crumbling.

They used our documentation,
And quietly replaced 3-hour scrolling sessions and 4-year degrees
with 1-page workflows and ChatGPT-driven revenue engines.

Felt like I actually own my brain again

Felt like I actually own my brain again

The section on reward baselines was wild… I built a mini dopamine tracker in Notion using their ratios, and within days I stopped chasing small wins. I’m actually finishing big projects now :)

The section on reward baselines was wild… I built a mini dopamine tracker in Notion using their ratios, and within days I stopped chasing small wins. I’m actually finishing big projects now :)

Lena, 27, Copywriter

Lena, 27, Copywriter

Casually turned my to-do list into cashflow

Casually turned my to-do list into cashflow

The whole thing rewired how I see work. I used one of the exercises to turn my daily to-do list into a small recurring income system. Tiny, but literally runs itself now

The whole thing rewired how I see work. I used one of the exercises to turn my daily to-do list into a small recurring income system. Tiny, but literally runs itself now

Aryan, 21, Engineering Student

Aryan, 21, Engineering Student

I stopped working but my micro economy kept paying me

I stopped working but my micro economy kept paying me

The strangest part was how simple it all actually was. Like none of this felt like building a business. Just felt like just connecting systems someone already built for me and then watching the money start looping

The strangest part was how simple it all actually was. Like none of this felt like building a business. Just felt like just connecting systems someone already built for me and then watching the money start looping

Xiyue, 25, Web developer

Xiyue, 25, Web developer

Gave myself a 20% raise, without asking?

Gave myself a 20% raise, without asking?

I followed the section about capital flow, that hit me hard. Built a simple feedback loop between my income and expenses like it said. Two months later, I basically gave myself a 20% raise without changing jobs

I followed the section about capital flow, that hit me hard. Built a simple feedback loop between my income and expenses like it said. Two months later, I basically gave myself a 20% raise without changing jobs

Nathan, 31, PE associate

Nathan, 31, PE associate

Layer 1, the 8-minute rule that made work addictive again

Layer 1, the 8-minute rule that made work addictive again

Everyone else at the firm used Pomodoro timers and caffeine. I used the delayed-reward calibration method. I doubled my work and HR literally asked if I was using nootropics. The first few chapters of layer 1 goes nuts on this

Everyone else at the firm used Pomodoro timers and caffeine. I used the delayed-reward calibration method. I doubled my work and HR literally asked if I was using nootropics. The first few chapters of layer 1 goes nuts on this

Javier, 35, Accounting

Javier, 35, Accounting

Chapter 2 dopamine curve built my side income

Chapter 2 dopamine curve built my side income

The first layer made me realise dopamine isn’t bad, it’s a signal. I used their curve-mapping idea to time my workflow with reward spikes, and somehow it led to a small digital product that makes $400 a week =D

The first layer made me realise dopamine isn’t bad, it’s a signal. I used their curve-mapping idea to time my workflow with reward spikes, and somehow it led to a small digital product that makes $350 a week =D

Rhea, 21, Marketing student

Rhea, 21, Marketing student

Reclaim your future

Reclaim your future

Reclaim your future

Say goodbye to eBooks.

Say goodbye to eBooks.

This documentation is a start-to-finish reconstruction manual.
These blueprints let you build financial freedom with a starting point of zero knowledge, leaving the rest behind in the endless 9-to-5.

This documentation is a start-to-finish reconstruction manual.
These blueprints let you build financial freedom with a starting point of zero knowledge, leaving the rest behind in the endless 9-to-5.

Price doubles at the start of next financial crash

Price doubles at the start of
next financial crash

Plug and play your way to wealth

Start today

Start today

We reverse-engineered the economy. Here's what we made.
It hooks you into action the way TikTok hooks you into scrolling, except it makes money.

Mapping the Secret Economy

Get the plug-and-play manual for today's new economy: where data, dopamine, and automation replace college degrees, effort, and the 9-to-5 rat race.

Mapping the Secret Economy

Get the plug-and-play manual for today's new economy: where data, dopamine, and automation replace college degrees, effort, and the 9-to-5 rat race.

Mapping the
Secret Economy

Get the plug-and-play manual for today's new economy: where data, dopamine, and automation replace college degrees, effort, and the 9-to-5 rat race.

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