The price becomes a ladder.

Until today the site said one number and hedged it: €449, a planning target, not a final price. That was honest, and it was also incomplete. A number with no consequences asks nothing of anyone.

Two things change. The number is now €450—we would rather not price like a supermarket, and a nine on the end is a small dishonesty about what something costs. And the number now means something.

From 17 November to 6 December, the First 1,000 buy at €450—the founding price. After the window, the planned member price for places 1,001–5,000 is €550. At general release, the planned price is €650.

The same rule now applies to the carry studies: €90, €100, €120, €130 and €150. Nothing in the catalogue asks a nine to make the price look smaller.

The reasoning is plain. The first thousand carry the build with us: they pay before certification is finished, wait while production earns its dates and read the letters where we say what failed. The people who wait for the finished thing pay for the finished thing. The difference is not a discount. It is the price of being early, published in advance so nobody has to guess.

The later steps are planned prices, stated now so the ladder is a public record—not final until commercial terms are published before payment, like everything else here.

There will be no coupons, countdown offers or artificial stock. The ladder is the only urgency we will ever manufacture.

A sales window is still not a delivery promise. Dated delivery terms follow certification, production acceptance and support readiness—the price you pay does not change the gates.

A price used to be a fact we withheld until it was certain. It is now a commitment we publish in the order people take the risk.