A proposal · for coaches and practitioners

Let's build you
a school.

Right now your work lives in your hands and your calendar. This is a proposal to give it a building: a community anyone can walk into for free, a catalog of courses that goes all the way up, and a weekly class that fills both. You teach. I build and run everything else.

Greg Tresler
Built on the Trine System
The Trine System mark: a gold triangle with cycle arrows inside a gold ring
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TRINE SYSTEM
Where things stand

The ceiling isn't your skill. It's the shape of the offer.

None of this is a critique of how you work. It's structural, and structure is the one thing you can change without changing a single thing about how you coach.

01 · The hourly wall

One client at a time

Charge by the session and your income is a function of hours on a calendar. A great month and a hard month cost you the same. Take a week off and it stops.

02 · The graduation problem

You teach people not to need you

Good coaching has an expiration date built into it. Clients get better and leave, which is the whole point, and also why you never get off the acquisition treadmill.

03 · Someone else's name

The method has a brand. It isn't yours.

If you teach someone else's method, the rooms you fill and the results you get accrue to it, not to you. A school with your name on it changes who owns that.

The fix isn't more hours or a higher rate. It's building somewhere people can stay after they're well.
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The engine

Three things on a loop, feeding each other.

This is the Trine System, the part I build and operate. Its only job is to keep the right people arriving at your door, whether or not you thought about it that week.

Leg 01 · The front door

The Open Class

A free live class on a fixed weekly rhythm. Not a webinar with a pitch bolted on, an actual class taught the way you already like to teach a room. People leave better than they arrived, and the ready ones ask what's next.

Leg 02 · The heartbeat

The Newsletter

Every registration becomes a subscriber. Between classes it keeps you in their week, one insight and one invitation, so nobody who isn't ready today is gone by the time they are.

Leg 03 · The moat

The Community

Free to walk into, and it stays that way. Anyone can copy your content. Nobody can copy your room. This is where everyone who ever attends anything ends up living.

Each leg makes the next one cheaper. The class fills the list, the list fills the class, the community keeps everyone warm in between.
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What the engine feeds

A free campus, and a catalog that goes all the way up.

The community costs nothing to enter and always will. It's the front door, not the product. What sits behind it is a real catalog that grows as fast as you want to teach.

The campusFree, always
Open Class replays, practice threads, and the room where everyone lands. The hook is simple: the advanced material isn't on social media, it's in here.
FreeThe front door
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The catalogCourses, by level
Foundational courses anyone in the community can enroll in, then advanced work, then master's-level courses you have to qualify for. It starts as one course and becomes a curriculum.
PaidBy course
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AdmissionsThe interview
Before the advanced work, a one-on-one assessment online. You map where they actually are and decide who's ready. It's the filter, and it's where enrollment happens naturally.
$250Waived for founders
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Graduate tierStanding, not a subscription
Finishing a course earns it, you can't buy your way in. Ongoing live practice, alumni access, and first call on whatever you add to the catalog next.
MonthlyAlumni only

Prices are a starting point, not a decision. Every one of them is yours to move. The paperwork underneath this (intake, a plain-English waiver, and permission to record) is part of the build, and we'll walk through it while we're building rather than today.

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The honest objection

"I'm more powerful in person."

You are, and this plan doesn't need me to argue with it. Nothing here asks you to give up the room. It asks the room to get bigger.

What stays intact

  • Small enough to see. The founders' class is ten. As it grows, twenty-five is the ceiling on any single class and not a seat past it. Everyone on camera, every session.
  • You already know the person. Every student comes through a one-on-one assessment first. Day one isn't a cold read.
  • Live is still live. Correction in real time, by name, not a video library with a comment section.

What gets added

  • A room every week. The Open Class hands you one, at no marginal cost, for people who could never drive to you.
  • Presence between sessions. Go live in the community whenever you feel like it. Once a week is the expectation, anything past that is pure connection.
  • A room of your own. The school isn't tied to one address, and the first thing a working school pays for is a proper space to teach and film in.
  • In person becomes the destination. A retreat is what the online school fills, with graduates who already trust you.
Online isn't the replacement for the room. It's what fills the room.
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The shape of it

One course of ten. Nineteen hours of your time.

This is the entire financial argument, and it fits on one slide. Not that you should stop seeing people one on one, but that the same week can hold both.

$12,000
What one ten-person course produces at $1,200 a seat
19 hrs
Your time inside it: the assessments, six live sessions, and prep you only build once
1×
You build the course once. Every run after that is teaching, not prep
The prep is the part that compounds. You build the course once and teach it every time the catalog runs it again.

Your real numbers depend on what you charge, how big the classes get, and how fast they fill. We'll run yours together on a call rather than me guessing at them here.

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Class one

The founders' class picks itself.

You already know the ten people. They've worked with you, they've had the result, and they've asked what to do between sessions. That's the entire launch list.

The invitation

Hand-picked, not marketed

You reach out personally to current and past clients, in your voice, not a campaign. Admissions is free for them: a walkthrough of where they are now, and the natural place the enrollment conversation happens.

The trade

A founders' rate with a role

A discount in exchange for something real: finish the course, give a video testimonial, and be the welcoming voice in the community for the classes that follow. Founders aren't buying a discount, they're taking a job.

The point

Proof before the public sees it

Ten committed people who already trust you means class one can't fail quietly. It produces testimonials, a curriculum that's been taught, and a community with a culture in it before a single stranger applies.

Ten to start, because ten is what you can genuinely see. Twenty-five is the ceiling on any single class. There is no ceiling on how many courses the catalog eventually holds, and that's where this actually grows.

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How it starts

One call. Three questions. Then a date.

I don't build the same school twice, so I'm not going to price one here. The first conversation is about what you teach, who's already asking for more, and what you want the school to pay for. The plan and the number come out of that.

Question 01

What do you teach?

Not the method, the result. What people leave with is the course, and it's usually something you've been teaching for years without ever writing it down.

Question 02

Who's already asking?

The founders' class is sitting in your phone. We'll name them on the call. If you can't name ten, that tells us where to start instead.

Question 03

What should it pay for?

A room of your own, a week off that doesn't cost you, a retreat. The school gets sized to the answer, not the other way around.

How I get paid, in one line. Something up front to build it, and then a structure that pays me when the school works. I'll show you the options on the call, and I'd rather you pick the one you can live with for three years than the one that looks best this month.

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If you're in

You're the face. I'm the engine.

You're the creative and the practitioner. I'm the analytical one, the funnel builder, the person who genuinely enjoys the back office you dread. That's the whole partnership in a line.

YouGreg

Teaching and the craft

  • Teach the free Open Class on the rhythm we set
  • Run admissions and decide who's ready
  • Teach the courses and own the curriculum
  • Show up in the community as often as you want to

Everything else

  • Build and run the campus, the catalog, and the enrollment rails
  • Fill the Open Class and the admissions pipeline
  • Newsletter, sequences, launch campaigns, ads
  • Student support, scheduling, recordings, certificates
  • Report the numbers monthly, in plain English
The only decision today is whether you want a school, and what we call it.
Greg Tresler · gregtresler.com
Let's put a date on class one.
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