I'm writing this from the easternmost stop of the trip.

The hotel is a few blocks from the water. The kids are negotiating with my wife about whether they can swim in the ocean, which has been informed by the fact that the water temperature here in May is the kind of cold that triggers an immediate evolutionary response in human bodies.

I want to tell you what's been happening in the community over the last three weeks.

I checked the threads and emails in my inbox yesterday and pulled together a rough count of what members have actually done since the sprint went live on May 4. Not what they've planned to do. What they've done.

The numbers are not vanity metrics. They're activity counts. But the activity is what predicts the outcome, so I'm sharing them anyway.

Day 1, members posted their one-line offers. Roughly 60% of them did this within the first 24 hours of joining. The other 40% took between two and six days. Of the 60% who posted in the first 24 hours, the majority have since closed at least one client. Of the 40% who took longer, far fewer have.

Day 2, members shared screenshots of their working systems. The pattern was similar. Members who posted within 48 hours of starting Day 2 closed at higher rates than members who took longer.

Day 3, members posted their outreach numbers. Some sent the full ten messages on Day 3 like the structure called for. Some sent five. Some sent two. Some never posted a count at all. The members who sent ten on the day the structure called for it had the highest first-reply rates and the highest first-close rates.

By Day 5, the members who'd been hitting the daily action steps in the windows the sprint suggested were the ones closing.

Three weeks in, this pattern has held with remarkable consistency.

Closes are still happening. Last week alone, members closed clients in seven different niches that I personally counted. Dentists. Chiropractors. HVAC. Roofers. Med spas. Real estate agents. A cash car wash, which I had not anticipated as a niche but apparently has tremendous review-collection upside. The system works across niches. The structure holds.

The recurring billing is processing. Members who closed in the first week are now approaching their first month of recurring revenue. The ones who closed in week two are about to hit their first billing cycle as well. By the time the round closes June 4, the early members will be three to four weeks into their first paying client relationship and will have collected concrete data on how much time the system actually saves them.

Here's what I want you to take from all of this.

The sprint isn't theoretical. It's not aspirational. It's running right now and producing results in real time. The pattern is consistent enough that I can predict, with reasonable accuracy, who will close clients based on how fast they post in the early threads. The structure works. The community works. The system works.

The round is open through June 4. After that, this version of the round closes. The page comes down. The bonuses pull back. The next time something like this runs, it'll be different.

If you've been thinking about it, this is the part of the trip where I'd start moving.

​Join while the round is still open →​

Talk soon.

Adam

P.S. We passed this trail sign yesterday that read: “Aggressive Bear in Area.”

Which honestly felt like a pretty accurate description of entrepreneurship too.

The people moving fast, taking action, and protecting territory tend to eat first.

And yes, to be clear, this was an actual sign on the trail yesterday.