For anyone whose page has been live for months, and quiet the whole time…
Nothing is wrong with your page. Nobody has seen it yet.
You built it. That was the easy half. The First Thirty is the other half: 30 days in front of strangers, mostly with ads you approve.
$446 today if you have no plan yet, then $149/month for Onomaco Growth until you cancel · starts on the 1st · Seven days, full refund, no questions. · ad spend is separate and paid by you to the ad platform
A letter from the founder Building was the easy half
Dear friend,
Here's the part that's hard to believe, so read it twice. Nothing is wrong with your page.
The page is fine. The price is fine. The copy is fine — or one afternoon from fine. And one afternoon was never the problem. You've had a hundred of them.
What you have is silence. There's no tutorial for silence. No plugin, no rebuild, no better template. It's the one thing you can't fix from inside the thing you built.
Building is the fast half now. You can watch it. Onomaco takes one sentence through eight steps to a live business. 17 runs were filmed, sign-up to live. The fastest took 6 min 10 s. The slowest, 14 min 22 s. 7 hit Retry on camera, and every one stayed in. The businesses are made up. The clock isn't.
In those runs, building took minutes. The other half takes a month, because it happens out there, with strangers.
That's The First Thirty. One lesson a day. Five gates, read from your own account. Your ads, your card, your limit. And a start date you didn't pick: the 1st.
Here's the deal. If you have no plan yet, $446 today covers the 30 days and your first month of Onomaco Growth. Ad spend is separate, and you pay it to the ad platform yourself.
What I can promise is the seven days: Seven days, full refund, no questions.

Jason Boeglen
Founder
The one thing Why the page is quiet
You know how to build. That's been the problem the whole time.
It's easier to spend a Sunday on a new integration than to put a price on something and ask a stranger to pay it. One of those feels like progress. Only one of them is.
So the months go somewhere. The domain renews. Twice.
Here's the honest part. You'd only say it out loud late at night. If it isn't done, it can't fail.
But yours is finished. You've run out of that one. What's left is the thing you were really avoiding: hearing no from a real person.
That's what the 30 days are for. Hearing no enough times, fast enough, to find out what's true — while you still have the nerve to act on it. Make sense so far?
How you'll know The five gates
Five gates. Each is yes or no, read by software from your own account. If you place ads by hand, two things come from you — the ad account and the spend — and those say logged.
- Day 7 · Ready to Spend
Tracking proven, your $1 self-test done, an ad account you can spend from, one ad approved after the claims check, and your budget, dates and the most you'll pay per buyer saved.
- Day 10 · Live
One campaign is running on a spending limit you approved. Either Onomaco placed it, or you placed it from the export file with your spend logged.
- Day 21 · The Hundred
100 visits to a page we serve — counted, never estimated — and 10 of them named through your sign-up step.
- Day 27 · The Ask
A direct offer, with a real deadline, sent to your list of at least 10 people.
- Day 30 · The Fact
A live checkout has taken a cleared payment from someone who wasn't on your contact list on day 0. It says nothing about where they came from, and it's never credited to your ads.
- A missed gate never locks the next one. The gates are a scoreboard, not a lock.
- Two things are logged, not verified. If you place your own ads, the account and the spend are what you tell us.
- Gate 3 counts visits, not reach. We count people who actually arrived at your page.
- Gate 5 is the only gate about a payment. We can prove a card moved. We can't prove what made it move, so it's never credited to your ads.
Fair?
The 30 days What the thirty days actually are
- Day 0
Before the 1st: a guided $1 test payment, a snapshot of your contacts, and your email and ad-account setups, which can take a few days to approve.
- Week 1 · Ready to Spend
Gate 1 closes on day 7.
The shift From “it isn't ready” to “it's ready for strangers.”
The doubt it answers “I'll waste money on ads.” Nothing spends until you approve an exact limit, with an end date. The limit caps what a poor answer can cost.
- Week 2 · Live
Gate 2 closes on day 10.
The shift From building to being seen.
The doubt it answers “I don't know how to run ads.” Your AI co-founder drafts them from your offer. You edit and approve.
- Week 3 · The Hundred
Gate 3 closes on day 21.
The shift From guessing to reading real numbers.
The doubt it answers “What if the numbers are bad?” Then you know. You make one call: keep, fix or stop.
- Week 4 · The Ask
Gate 4 closes on day 27. Gate 5 closes on day 30.
The shift From hoping someone buys to asking them.
The doubt it answers “I hate selling.” You send one real offer with a real deadline, and whatever comes back is a fact.
One lesson a day, in order, worked through with a sample business so you can see every step done. On the days you write ads, your AI co-founder drafts them from your own offer and you edit.
Our estimate: 30–45 minutes most days in week 1, while you set things up; 15–30 minutes most days after that; and 4 longer weekend sittings. About 17 hours across the thirty days, plus about 90 minutes before day 1. These are estimates from the lessons as written, not measurements.
Here is every day. All 30. Read them before you pay for them.
Week 1 · Ready to Spend
You get ready to spend money safely: one clear promise, real customer language, a page that's ready for strangers, tracking you've tested, your ad math, your own ad account — and your first ads, checked.
- Day 1
One buyer, one promise
- Day 2
Customer language: five conversations
- Day 3
Make the page ready for cold traffic
- Day 4
Prove your tracking works
- Day 5
The ad maths: what you can afford to pay
- Day 6
Weekend block · Your ad account, your card, your limits
- Day 7
Your first ads, checked · Gate 1 closes. Gate 1 — Ready to Spend — closes today.
Week 2 · Live
Your campaign goes live on a spending limit you approved. Then you leave the ads alone and look after the people who sign up.
- Day 8
Arm the campaign
- Day 9
Launch
- Day 10
Hands off: early numbers lie · Gate 2 closes. Gate 2 — Live — closes today.
- Day 11
Don't touch the ads. Touch the people.
- Day 12
Warm the leads: the follow-up emails
- Day 13
Weekend block · Build the audiences you will show ads to again
- Day 14
The cost-per-click check
Week 3 · The Hundred
At about 100 clicks you read your first real numbers, compare them with your guesses, and make one call: keep, fix or stop.
- Day 15
One free backup: a post of your own
- Day 16
The first read, at about 100 clicks
- Day 17
Make more of what worked — copy, don't edit
- Day 18
Fix the page, not the ad
- Day 19
The human touch: everyone who went quiet
- Day 20
Weekend block · The budget decision
- Day 21
The Hundred · Gate 3 closes. Gate 3 — The Hundred — closes today.
Week 4 · The Ask
A real offer with a real deadline, to the warmest twelve first and then everyone. On day 30 you read all five gates, whichever way they went.
- Day 22
A real deadline on a real thing
- Day 23
Retarget the warm
- Day 24
The warmest twelve
- Day 25
The Ask
- Day 26
Answer the objection you've been avoiding
- Day 27
Weekend block · Everyone who got close · Gate 4 closes. Gate 4 — The Ask — closes today.
- Day 28
One call
- Day 29
Last call, stop the spend, honour the deadline
- Day 30
Read the facts · Gate 5 closes. Gate 5 — The Fact — closes today.
About day 0: the $1 test isn't free. Your card processor keeps its fee on a refund, so about thirty-three cents is gone for good. We'd rather print that than round it to zero.
Notice what isn't in there. No branding week. No logo. No funnel map. You did all that. Week 1 gets you ready to spend safely, and every day after that points outward — at people who've never heard of you.
What you'll have by day 30
Do the days and, by day 30, you'll have:
- A page that's ready for strangers, checked on a phone
- Tracking you've proven with your own test
- An ad account in your name, with your card and a spending limit you set
- A campaign that ran on a budget you approved — and stopped when you said
- A sign-up step on your page, and follow-up emails for everyone who uses it
- Your first read of real numbers, planned at about 100 clicks
- A real offer, with a real deadline, sent to your list
- All five gates read off your own data — whichever way they went
And no, you won't have to…
- Sit through live calls. Every lesson waits in the software for when you open it.
- Rebuild your page, or pick a new logo. You did that part.
- Hand us your passwords.
- Let us spend your ad money. It never goes through us.
- Write your ads from a blank page. Your AI co-founder drafts them from your offer, and you edit.
What you'll set up, and whose it is
Everything here is yours — your name, your card, your data. Week 1 walks you through each one:
- Your payment account. Your own Stripe account, so customers pay you directly.
- An email-sending address on your own domain. Through your own Resend account. You add a few records where your domain is registered; checking them can take a day or two, which is why it starts on day 0.
- Your ad account. Meta or Google, in your business's name, with your own card and a spending limit you set — plus the tracking that lets it hear your page.
- Tagged links. Onomaco tags your ad links for you. For your own posts, you add the tag by hand on day 15. It takes two minutes.
That's the whole list, and none of it is ours. Onomaco never holds, moves or touches your ad money.
What the ads cost, and who you pay
Ad spend is not included in the price, and it never goes through us. You pay Meta or Google directly, on your own card. You work out your own budget on day 5, from your price and your costs.
For many small businesses, the smallest budget that teaches anything is a few hundred dollars — enough for about 100 clicks. Plan on about $300 you could afford to lose for the first read, and up to about $700 for the month if you keep going. These are planning figures, not rules: click costs differ by business.
That money buys an answer, not customers: roughly how many people who click go on to sign up, and what that costs. Nothing spends until you approve an exact amount, and you can stop any time. If a few hundred dollars isn't money you could afford to lose this month, wait for a later month.
So here's everything you get
- The 30 daysOne lesson a day, in order, worked through with a sample business, with templates and worksheets.
- The five gates and the scoreboardRead off your own data. The scoreboard is public, empty today, and shows no revenue.
- A nudge when you fall behindA message the morning a gate starts to slip. It's software, so it never skips a day.
- Your websiteYour pages, live at a web address you own, or at ours.Comparable: $39 a month¹
- Sales pages and checkoutPages that sell, and a checkout that takes cards.Comparable: $47–$79 a month²
- Email to your listA newsletter, priced here at 1,000 contacts.Comparable: $39–$45 a month³
- Your contactsEveryone who signed up or bought, in one list.Comparable: $20–$49 a month⁴
- BookingsPeople pick a time and it lands on your calendar.Comparable: $12 a month⁵
- Forms and quizzesAsk questions and keep the answers.Comparable: $39 a month⁶
- AI writingThe AI drafts and redoes your words, on your credits.Comparable: $20–$69 a month⁷
- Social postsWrite and schedule posts for one channel.Comparable: $6 a month⁸
Bought separately, these tools run $222–$338 a month.⁹
Your price: $446 today if you have no plan yet, then $149 a month for Growth
- Squarespace Core, $39 a month. squarespace.com/pricing, read 2026-10-18.
- ThriveCart Standard, $47 a month; SamCart Core, $79 a month. thrivecart.com and samcart.com/pricing, read 2026-10-18.
- Kit Creator, $39 a month; Mailchimp Standard at 501–1,500 contacts, $45 a month. kit.com/pricing and mailchimp.com/pricing, read 2026-10-18.
- HubSpot Starter, one seat, $20 a month; Pipedrive Growth, $49 a month. hubspot.com/pricing/crm and pipedrive.com/en/pricing, read 2026-10-18.
- Calendly Standard, $12 a month. calendly.com/pricing, read 2026-10-18.
- Typeform Basic, $39 a month. typeform.com/pricing, read 2026-10-18.
- ChatGPT Plus, $20 a month; Jasper Pro, $69 a month. chatgpt.com/pricing and jasper.ai/pricing, read 2026-10-18.
- Buffer Essentials, $6 a month for one channel. buffer.com/pricing, read 2026-10-18.
- Every price above is a published monthly price, read 2026-10-18. The total adds the cheaper tool per job ($222 a month) and the brand-name tool per job ($338 a month), with no job counted twice.
Not included: your ad spend. It's paid by you, to the ad platform, and it's the amount you choose.
What's my investment? What it costs, in full
Today: $446 if you have no plan yet — and every charge after it, dated
| When | What | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Today | The First Thirty — the 30 days, the five gates, the scoreboard | $297, once |
| Today | Onomaco Growth — your first month, live the minute your payment clears | $149 |
| One month from today, and monthly after | Onomaco Growth — keeps your business live | $149/month |
Onomaco Growth is a recurring subscription. It renews at $149 a month, on its own, until you cancel.
Cancel any time from Billing → Manage in Stripe, including on day 8. A refund inside the seven-day window cancels it for you.
Why it isn't free. Free challenges work for companies with a big customer base to absorb the cost. We're a new company, and we'd rather say so. There's a better reason, too: the price is the only thing with any weight before day 1. Fair enough?
What we can show you The proof, honestly
Nobody has finished this yet. The scoreboard is public, and today it's empty. So you won't find an invented quote on this page, or our own demo dressed up as a customer.
Here's what you get instead. Every one of the 30 days, printed above. Our time estimate for each week. Every gate, in the exact words the software checks. And seven days to look inside and get your money back without explaining yourself to anyone.
And one number from outside. A survey of 221 open online courses put median completion at 12.6 percent — about one in eight (Jordan, 2015). Those were free courses, so it isn't a forecast of what you'll do. It's the best published data on whether people finish what they start.
When there are finishers, this section will say so — with names on it.
Source: Jordan, K. (2015). Massive open online course completion rates revisited: Assessment, length and attrition. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 16(3). 221 courses surveyed; completion data for 129; rates ranged 0.7%–52.1%, median 12.6%.
The guarantee, and there is only one
The seven days start the day you buy, not on the 1st. So use them. Day 0 opens the minute your payment clears, and all thirty days are printed above. If it isn't for you, say so within seven days of buying. The whole payment comes back, and any plan it started stops with it.
Seven days, full refund, no questions. The seven days run from the day you buy, not from the 1st. Ask within them and the whole payment comes back. If this purchase started your Growth plan, the refund cancels it, so nothing more is charged. If you already had Growth or Scale, this purchase started no plan, so yours keeps running. If you were on Solo, the payment included your move to Growth, so your plan goes back to Solo. After those seven days The First Thirty is not refundable; the Growth subscription is still cancellable at any time from Billing → Manage in Stripe. Everything you build stays in your account either way.
That is the complete list. Inside the seven days after you buy, the guarantee is the whole remedy: Seven days, full refund, no questions. After those seven days there is no separate make-good — no credits, no extensions, no free months, no bonus days — because the moment a remedy is conditioned on how your thirty days went, it becomes a promise about your results, and we are not making one.
We do not know what will happen in your thirty days. Nobody selling you anything does. So the only promise here is about the seven days, which is a thing we actually control.
The things you're telling yourself right now
“Will the ads get me customers?”
We don't know, and neither does anyone selling you ads. A small budget buys an answer: roughly how many people who click go on to sign up, and what that costs. The month teaches you to read that answer and act on it. Whether anyone buys is a fact we'll read with you on day 30.
“I don't have an audience.”
You don't need one. Gate 3 is 100 visits and 10 names — not followers, not subscribers. Plenty of people start from about nobody, which is why the month runs mainly on ads: from day 9 they put your page in front of strangers in your area or your market, on a budget you set.
“I don't have time.”
About 17 hours across the thirty days, plus about 90 minutes before day 1. Every day is printed above, with our estimate. Check them against your real week now — not on day 13.
“Do you ever spend my money on ads?”
No. The ad account and the card are yours, and the ad platform charges you directly. Onomaco drafts, checks and sets up. You approve an exact spending limit, and if we place the ads for you, you also type LAUNCH to confirm. Every campaign has an end date.
“What do I have to set up?”
Your own payment account, an email-sending address on your own domain, a Meta or Google ad account with your own card, and the tracking between your page and that ad account. Week 1 walks you through each one. You can place your ads yourself from a file we make, so you never have to connect your ad account to us.
“I've bought this kind of thing before and didn't finish.”
Lots of people have. In the free online courses cited above, about one in eight finished. What was missing was never the material. Nothing happened when you stopped. Here, the date is fixed and the clock doesn't stop.
“Couldn't I just do this myself?”
Yes — and if you've finished a thirty-day thing on your own before, you probably should. For everyone else, here's the honest difference. The assignments aren't secret: any AI chat will happily write you 30 days of them. What it won't do is notice you stopped. And it can't check a single gate, because it can't see your page, your list, your contacts or your checkout.
“What if I miss a gate, or don't finish?”
Nothing locks. The next day arrives on schedule, and the gate stays red on your scoreboard. Nothing is revoked or downgraded, and everything you made is yours: the list, the page, the offer, every version. The only thing you can't get back is the calendar.
“Why Growth and not Solo?”
Because the month runs on Growth's ad and social tools, and you're in them from day 7. Your pages, funnel, contacts, checkout and analytics all work on Solo too. The full list Solo lacks, all 7: Campaigns, Acquisition scorecard, Post results, Write a post, Post calendar, Social accounts, Social inbox.
“What if I run out of AI credits?”
3,000 credits come with Growth every month. One credit is one standard text generation. Heavier work costs more of them, and the multipliers are the ones the meter actually charges: research, a long-form document, a brand, a funnel or a campaign draws 3 credits, a generated image draws 5, and a generated video draws 50. That's 3,000 standard generations, or 1,000 heavy ones, or 600 images. They start again on the 1st, and the app tells you at 75%, 80% and 90%.
It starts on the 1st
Everyone starts on the same day: the 1st of the month.
That isn't a gimmick. On day 12 you're on day 12 with everybody else, and a day 12 you share is a different day from a day 12 you're doing alone.
If it's the 12th today, buy today. The software goes live the minute your payment clears. Use the rest of the month for Day 0 and the setups that take a few days. The clock starts on the 1st.
There is no countdown on this page, and there is no seat count either. Nothing here is delivered in a room with a fixed number of chairs, so we're not going to invent a shortage. The only real deadline is the one at the end — and it's the point.
Thirty days means thirty days
No pause. No extensions. No stopping the clock. If life happens in week three, the gates still close on schedule.
That's the strictest sentence on this page, and it's the part software alone can't give you. The software is available everywhere. The date is the product.
Is this you?
Yes if
- You already have something built and live, and you can legally take a payment.
- There's a real person you could reach out to tomorrow.
- You can put your work in public, under your own name.
- You can give it the time above: most days, plus 4 longer weekend sittings.
- You can set aside an ad budget of a few hundred dollars, on your own card, that you could afford to lose (plan on about $300).
- You own a web domain, or are willing to buy one, for your email.
Skip it if
- You're still deciding what to sell. The 30 days assume the thing exists, and they'll be a bad month if it doesn't.
- What you sell can't be advertised on Meta or Google (some kinds of business are restricted), or you can't set aside an ad budget right now.
- You want encouragement more than a straight answer about your price.
- You've finished a thirty-day thing on your own before. You'll finish this one on your own too — keep the $446.
Better to work that out here than on day 19.
You've proved you can build
You've spent months proving you can build. The proof is live, and it's quiet.
So you have two choices. You can keep polishing a page nobody has seen. Or you can spend thirty days, from the 1st, putting it in front of strangers, with a date you didn't choose, a scoreboard you can't argue with, and something that notices when you don't show up.
Starters have ideas. Finishers make them facts.
Full terms: the binding conditions, the five gates and the refund position.
P.S. Every group starts on the 1st. Not “soon,” and not “when you feel ready.” If you have no plan yet, $446 today covers the 30 days and your first month of Growth.
P.P.S. Seven days, full refund, no questions. The seven days start the day you buy, so you can look inside before you decide.
P.P.P.S. Not sure yet? Read the Finisher Manifesto →
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