The Reality Check

The Sales Hire Reality Check

from WrngWaay — the honest cash story of a sales hire, not the one you're hoping for.

Want to see how it works first? Load a worked example
My business is roughly
What you'll pay them
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What you expect them to sell
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These are the assumptions I made for you Ramp, payroll load, tooling, and the margin guess. Know your real numbers? Open this and type them in. The result updates as you go.
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We seed this from the kind of business you picked above. It's a starting guess, not a measurement. If you know your real number, type it in. This is the one figure that decides whether you're hiring someone to grow profit or to grow a loss faster.
Every box above is required, including both questions. If one is genuinely zero, type 0 — a blank box and a zero are not the same answer.
Here's what we just built from your answers:
Fully-loaded cost / year
Deepest cash hole
That's this much of your cash
sales hire card · the honest cash curve
When you hope to break even
When you actually do
Cash you must survive losing first
How to read this

What you are reading is arithmetic on the numbers you gave us. It is honest arithmetic, but it only knows what you typed — not your season, not the customer who always pays late, not the invoice landing next Tuesday. You know those things and this page does not. Use it to decide where to look, then check what you find against what you know.

Where we draw the line between comfortable and thin is our judgment, not a rule of accounting. Your bank, your accountant, or your own gut may draw it somewhere else.

What this is and isn’t · How to reach a person

These tools are free. Your numbers never leave this page — the only thing that ever leaves is an email address you type in yourself, and we couldn't see your figures if we tried. Your figures are gone when you close the tab. The newsletter is a separate thing, and entirely your call.

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