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The Founding 100: Why Early Adopters Win

The first 100 salons on AAKIJA get locked-in pricing and direct input into the product. Here is why joining early matters.

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The Founding 100 programme is not a discount. It is a trade — early salons get locked-in pricing and a direct line into the product roadmap in exchange for the one thing we cannot buy: real feedback from working salons.

What Founding 100 salons get

Year one is £59 a month, any tier. After year one, the price locks at £99 a month forever — the standard Professional tier price is £189. That is £90 a month saved in perpetuity, or £1,080 a year.

Every Founding 100 salon also gets a named onboarding call, a direct channel to the product team, and first access to features before general release.

Why we are doing it this way

Salon software is built by people who have never worked a late Saturday. The Founding 100 is our attempt to change that — to ship with the operators, not at them.

In exchange we get what no amount of user research can replace: the daily friction, the actual gaps, the features that sound good in a meeting and collapse on a Friday afternoon.

Who it is not for

If you want a finished, polished, quiet tool that never asks anything of you — the Founding 100 is not for you. The programme is for owners who want to shape the thing they will be using for the next decade.

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