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OneIncome Runway

Plan the money before you drop to one income · illustrative output

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Market signal timeline

  1. Current · demand

    8% category growth signal

    Method: bottom-up from (annual decision-cohort x $39 kit price), cross-checked against the personal-finance-software market. Trigger cohort: US recorded ~3.6M births/yr (2023) plus…

  2. Buyer · defined

    Two-income couples with kids who are seriously considering going to one income (parent qui…

    A mom whose 12-week maternity leave ends in two months, agonizing on Instagram/TikTok over 'can we survive if I don't go back?', who downloads a free 'Can We Afford One Income?' ca…

  3. Competition · reviewed

    Free stay-at-home-parent calculators (Frugal Mama Project, GrowingSlower 'Affording Motherhood')

    They answer a yes/no 'can you afford it' question and show what you lose, but give no actionable transition plan, no sinking-funds tracking for lumpy costs, and no follow-through p…

  4. Risk · monitored

    Biggest uncertainty

    Email capture from cold short-form content is hard without a following, so if your Reels don't reliably convert viewers into calculator downloads, the whole funnel stalls before an…

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Verdict

Test first

The evidence supports a test first decision, with the largest uncertainty still visible.

Confidence

64%

Medium

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What would change this verdict?

Demand fails the first test

Landing-page signup rate stays under 3% after 200+ visitors and 5 posted videos, meaning cold content cannot feed the fu…

A substitute closes the gap

Free stay-at-home-parent calculators (Frugal Mama Project, GrowingSlower 'Affording Motherhood')

Economics miss the floor

Email capture from cold short-form content is hard without a following, so if your Reels don't reliably convert viewers…

The buyer changes

Two-income couples with kids who are seriously considering going to one income (parent quitting, maternity leave ending,…

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  6. 0690-day roadmapLOCKED
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