One slider, ten years: watch The Hero Engine — capped by your own bandwidth — get overtaken by The Enterprise Engine you build by investing in a team. Profit dips first. Valuation barely blinks. Both compound from there.
Your Starting Point
Advanced assumptions
Profit falls for 3 years, then must grow faster than The Hero Engine to ever catch up — that's what "Peak Profit vs Hero Engine" controls. The immediate valuation credit now scales with how much you're actually committing: Team Investment as a % of Starting Profit, relative to the Reference Intensity, up to the Max Credit. Token spend barely moves the multiple; bootstrapped, sustained spend earns real re-rating on Day 1.
Illustrative model only, driven by the assumptions you set above. Actual outcomes depend on execution, client retention, and market conditions. Use this to frame the conversation, not as a formal projection.