Why There's a Founders Price, and Until When

Key Takeaways is new, and Founders is the launch price: $69/month until Monthly opens in winter 2026, locked while you're subscribed, with the founder personally in the loop. This page is the honest version of why, what you get, and what we ask in return.

What is Key Takeaways?

A practice room for consulting case interviews: you talk through real cases out loud with an AI interviewer that listens, probes, shows exhibits, and scores you afterward — on camera when you want the full interview experience, in voice for daily reps.

It exists because reps are what win case interviews, and realistic reps are the hard part — peers are hard to schedule, and human coaches typically run $150–250 for a single session. Key Takeaways is built so the reps are the cheap part, any hour, without a calendar.

Why a founders price?

Because we're new, and we'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. Monthly opens at $129 in winter 2026. Until then the full product is $69, and anyone subscribed by then keeps $69 for as long as they stay subscribed.

No invented user counts here and no fake urgency: the date is real, and so is the price change. What you're joining is a trajectory, not a crowd: a working product you can try today, shaped by the first people using it.

What do founders get?

The full product at $69/month: voice practice without limits, 90 video minutes every month with the AI interviewer, and a one-time 60-minute video pack that never expires — plus a direct line to the founder, and a price that stays at $69 while you're subscribed.

• Everything in the product, from day one — full case library, camera-on mock interviews, scored feedback, and the skill dashboard.
• 90 video minutes each month — roughly two full on-camera mocks; daily voice practice never touches them.
• A 60-minute welcome video pack — granted on your first day, and its minutes never expire, even if you later cancel and come back.
• A direct line to the founder — bugs, rough edges, and "this case felt off" go straight to the person building it.
• Your price stays while you're subscribed — Monthly opens at $129/month in winter 2026, and the founders rate holds for as long as you keep your subscription.
• It renews monthly and cancels anytime — no contract, no minimum stay.

Only need a week?

Take the Week Pass: $49, paid once, for seven days of the full product, with one full 45-minute video mock plus voice practice without limits. It ends by itself, so there is nothing to cancel.

It is built for an interview that's already on the calendar. If your interview moves, Founders covers a whole month for $69.

What do we ask of you?

Use it for real, and tell us the truth about it. Concretely: one short feedback conversation during your first month — that's the whole formal ask.

Rough edges are part of being early, and hearing about them is the point. Anything else — feature requests, cases you'd like added, things that felt wrong — is welcome any time through the direct line, but never required. We will never quote you or use your name anywhere without asking first.

What happens in winter 2026?

The rest of the lineup opens: a Monthly plan at $129 and the Distinctive Track at $229, the tier where a former MBB interviewer reviews two of your mocks by hand each month. Founders keep their $69 rate while subscribed.

Those prices are on the pricing page today, marked "winter 2026". We'd rather you see where this is headed than discover it later.

Who's building this?

A former MBB consultant who went through this exact preparation — and who reads founder channel messages personally.

That matters for one practical reason: the scoring rubric, the case behavior, and the Distinctive Track reviews are grounded in how these interviews are actually graded, not in a generic chatbot's idea of one.