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- If oil hits $175....your Sagan membership is free
If oil hits $175....your Sagan membership is free
The last time oil broke $140, small businesses got EATEN.
Not the big fleets.
They hedge.
Procurement teams, fuel contracts, a CFO who watched the chart.
When crude spiked, they passed it through and kept rolling.
You didn't have that option.
Your diesel bill doubled in a quarter.
You ate it because your quotes were signed.
You tried to talk surcharges with customers and got ghosted on three renewals.
Your dispatch manager kept asking when pricing would catch up.
By the time it did, the margin was GONE.
That's the pattern every time crude gets political.
Strait of Hormuz.
Russian pipelines.
OPEC meeting in Vienna.
You're trying to keep trucks on the road... and make payroll.
The pump doesn't care.
Here's how we see it.
Global talent and AI agents are the best hedge a SMB has against this decade.
Every domestic input cost (fuel, insurance, tariffs, domestic payroll) is moving one direction.
The one line item that can move the other way is the great hire who does the work for half, or the agent that handles it for a fraction of that.
That's why Sagan exists.
It's also why we're willing to put real money behind it.
The bet.
If WTI crude settles at or above $175 on any trading day before June 30, 2026, we refund 100% of your Sagan membership dues.
Your direct-hire team stays on payroll.
Your agents keep running.
Nothing about your setup changes.
We just wire the money back.
No asterisks. No claw-back language.
One number, one date.
We borrowed this from Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale, the Houston furniture guy who told his customers their mattresses were free if the Astros won the World Series.
The Astros won.
He paid out $10 million without flinching.
He did it because he knew his customers and had real skin in the game.
If it happens, we honor it.
Why the math still works.
If oil stays sane, you got a year of global hires and AI agents replacing work that used to cost $80K per head.
Your margin holds whether fuel cooperates or not.
If oil breaks $175, your fuel line is already bleeding you.
Now your membership costs zero.
You keep the team, keep the agents, and we absorb the loss.
That's the shape of a real hedge.
The window closes May 18, 2026.
Join, or renew and pay in advance, by then.
You can't forecast the pump. You can forecast this.
Details here.
Yallah Habibi,
Jon