A story you probably recognize

It started with twelve people who kept showing up.

Now there are six hundred. And the platform holding them charges you more every single month for the crime of having done it right. This is the part of the story where that stops.

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Chapter one

You didn't set out to build a platform.

You answered the same question enough times that you started writing the answer down. Someone asked if there was a place to talk about it. You said yes before you had one.

So you improvised. A group chat that nobody could search. A mailing list you sent by hand. A calendar invite you re-sent every month because half the people missed it. It worked, mostly, because you kept it working — and every week it took a little more of you.

Then somebody said the thing that changes everything: I'd pay for this.

Chapter two

So you moved somewhere real.

A proper platform. Clean, well-made, everything in one place. The first invoice was small enough that you barely looked at it.

You grew. You did the hard part — you got people to show up, to post, to bring a friend. And each of those people arrived carrying a price tag that landed on your invoice, not theirs.

Somewhere around member three hundred you noticed the shape of it. Every win made the bill bigger. Your platform had quietly become a business partner who took a cut of your best work and contributed nothing to it.

Chapter three

Then you did the math.

Move the slider to the size of your community. Type in what you're charged per member. The gold line is what Malkant costs at every one of those sizes — because it's the same number at forty members and at four thousand.

$ / member / mo
0 2,500 members Per-member pricing Malkant
At 600 members, they charge
$1,200/mo
Malkant charges
$45/mo
You keep, every year
$13,860

Chapter four

A week inside your community.

Not a feature list. Just what the thing actually does while you get on with your life.

MON

You publish

An article with the video you recorded on Sunday dropped right into it. By lunch there are nine comments and an argument worth having.

TUE

Someone joins

They pay, the account opens, and their welcome message goes out. They get week one on their week one — not whatever you happened to send everyone last Tuesday.

WED

You ask

A poll inside a post. Forty votes by dinner, and you stop guessing what next month's session should be about.

THU

They show up

The event you scheduled once and set to recur. RSVPs on the listing, a comment thread underneath it, and a reminder that went out yesterday without you.

FRI

They come back

Someone who's been quiet for two weeks signs in, sees a number next to the bell, and finds three replies waiting. That's the whole trick.

ANY

You change the room

New page, renamed link, reordered menu. You do it yourself in four minutes, because it's your room.

And none of it moved your bill.

Chapter five

The afternoon it all becomes real.

Most people don't stall because the software is hard. They stall because "set up the community" sits on a list where nothing has a date on it.

So we put a date on it. You show up with a name and a reason people would join. You leave with a live community, a published article, a real event on the calendar, and a sign-up link that takes money.

Reserve a seat
Chapter six

Three plans. Not one of them counts your members.

Seats are not a feature, so we don't sell them. Every plan — including Starter — includes every part of the platform. What changes as you move up isn't how much software you get. It's how much of us you get.

Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.

Starter

$45
per month, any size
7-day trial · cancel anytime
  • Every feature of the platform, nothing held back
  • Articles, events, polls, and notifications
  • Automatic engagement series
  • Stripe payments built in
  • Unlimited members and content
  • Your own address, or your own domain on request
Start with Starter
Most chosen

Foundation

$65
per month, any size
7-day trial · cancel anytime
  • Everything in Starter
  • Membership in Malkant Group
  • Weekly strategic growth check-ins
  • Community growth tips by email
  • Guides and resources on building an authority community
Choose Foundation

Operator

$125
per month, any size
7-day trial · cancel anytime
  • Everything in Foundation
  • Monthly community authority workshops
  • A 12-month growth journey, mapped end to end
  • Personalized support the whole way through
Choose Operator
Before you decide

The questions you're already asking.

What happens to my content if I leave?

Your community is yours. If you decide to move on, ask and we'll package your content and your member list in a standard format you can take anywhere. No exit fee, and nothing held back. A platform that has to trap you isn't worth staying on.

Can I take payments through it?

Yes. Stripe is built in — connect your account and sell access directly from your community. If you'd rather keep the registration and payment forms you already use, connect those instead and accounts open automatically when someone buys.

Is any of it public?

No. Every page sits behind the login, including articles and events. Search engines don't index it and non-members don't browse it. What's said in the room stays in the room.

What if my community stays small?

Then a flat fee is the wrong shape for you, and we'd rather say so now. Under roughly 23 members, per-member pricing is usually cheaper. The math turns in our favor as you grow — and once it turns, it never turns back.

Can I use my own domain?

Yes, on request. Every community launches at its own Malkant address, and we'll point your own domain at it whenever you're ready — just ask.

What if I've never run a community before?

Then the workshop is the honest answer. You'll finish the afternoon with something live rather than something planned, which is the difference that usually decides whether a community happens at all.

How it ends

You get to want more members again.

Every person who joins from here costs you nothing. That's not a discount. It's the whole point.

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