Tier 3 · Luxury Travel — included with membership
Your business spend, working double
The reward layer of the ladder. The credit and card infrastructure you built in the first two tiers earns points on spend you're already making — and those points, redeemed well, fund a level of travel most founders assume requires a different income.
The spend engine, in plain numbers
A business running real spend through the right U.S. business cards earns up to 4x points on that spend. Redeemed for cash, points are worth roughly 1 cent each. Redeemed well — transfer partners, business-class award space, member hotel rates — the same points routinely return several times that in travel value. That's the whole trick, and it isn't a trick: it's the published rewards system, used deliberately, on spend your business was making anyway.
Members have booked five-star stays at a small fraction of the public rate and long-haul business-class seats for points that came from ordinary operating spend. Redemption value varies with dates, routes, and availability — the engine improves your odds; it never guarantees a specific seat or rate.
The room
People on the same climb
International founders at every stage of the ladder — from first filing to operating acquisitions — comparing notes in the open.
- Private Slack community of international foundersCommunity
- Monthly live strategy sessionsLive
- Deal flow & member introductionsNetwork
- Market updates & new lessons as rules changeUpdates
The travel engine
Earned in the open, within card terms
Publicly available rewards programs and member rates, applied deliberately to your real spend.
- Points strategy mapped to your business spend — up to 4x on business cardsPoints
- Business-class flights booked on points, not cashFlights
- Five-star stays at a fraction of retail through member ratesStays
- Elite status stacking for upgrades and late checkoutStatus
- Quarterly rewards-review session with a named advisorReview
Travel benefits use publicly available credit-card rewards, transfer partners, and member hotel rates on spend you're already making — nothing exotic, nothing that games a lender, nothing outside card terms. It's a perk of running your business on U.S. rails, never a reason to overspend or to start the climb. Rewards program terms, transfer ratios, and award availability are set by the issuing banks and travel providers and can change at any time.
Membership comes with the ladder
Included for active clients from the Credit Engine stage up, and available to Academy community members at $97/month.