Rank is purchasable up to Manager and no further. Three steps or one bundle, paid in $VEST and burned in full on receipt — a pure supply sink. Director and above are taken with Performance Points, a reinvest and time served — and the corner office is only ever taken by contest.
1,000,000
$VEST · one transaction
Exactly half the ladder. Director, VP, SVP and the six corner offices cannot be bought at any price.
Intern to Manager in one transaction, priced at ten hires. The same three rungs bought one at a time come to 1,100,000.
Every $VEST paid for a rank is burned outright — none of it goes to the payroll pool or the treasury. Buying seniority only shrinks supply.
What a Fast-Tracked badge owes to leave Manager. A badge that earned the rung owes 700.
Connect a wallet to buy rank for your badges.
| Step | Price $VEST | × hire | Burn 100% | Payroll 0% | Treasury 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intern → Analyst | 100,000 | 1× | 100,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Analyst → Associate | 300,000 | 3× | 300,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Associate → Manager | 700,000 | 7× | 700,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Three steps, in sequence | 1,100,000 | 11× | 1,100,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Intern → Manager, bundled | 1,000,000 | 10× | 1,000,000 | 0 | 0 |
Each step is three times the one below it, so the Manager chair is expensive even to a wallet that arrives with capital. The $VEST is pulled from the buyer, not from the badge's own wallet.
Concept v2 §5.1 prints four prices and states in the same paragraph that the bundle carries no discount. The four prices say otherwise: the three steps bought in sequence come to 1,100,000 $VEST, and the bundle is 1,000,000.
Both figures ship as written, here and in the contract. Quietly adjusting either one to match the other would be inventing a price, so the gap is stated instead.
Manager is capped at 216 chairs across the collection. On a full floor the purchase is refused. Money does not create a desk.
One rung a day. The bundle is the single purchase that ignores the cooldown, and it arms the cooldown behind itself, so nothing chains off it.
Time served on the rung you bought runs from the moment you pay. Nothing carries up from the ranks below, so Director is still 21 days out.
The purchase moves the rank and nothing else. Every point for the next rung is still earned on the Assignment Board.
Fast-Tracked is written to the badge, not to the wallet. It clears on transfer, along with the rank and the points.
1,050 Performance Points instead of 700. Fast-Tracked badges only, and on that one rung only.
Earned
Fast-Tracked
A bought rank draws the badge frame in the skin orange instead of the paper white, and the token carries the trait Fast-Tracked: Yes. The difference is on the artwork, not in a footnote.
It is not permanent. The mark belongs to the tokenId, and it clears with the rank the moment the badge changes hands.
Points banked on the Assignment Board, a reinvest of 15–30% of the badge's own stock, and the time served. The corner office is not promoted into at all — it is only ever taken by contest.
A Fast Track purchase is the only $VEST an employee now sinks into their own rank, so it is the only thing severance has to return. Transfer the badge and 25% of what you spent is booked in the employer's stock, vesting linearly. The rank, the points and the mark all go to the next holder as an Intern with nothing.
A purchase is one transaction from the badge's own desk. The $VEST is pulled from your wallet, so the token needs an approval first, and a badge under review cannot buy.
Open my deskHalf of every purchase is burned. One bundle removes 1,000,000 $VEST from circulation in a single transaction.
Someone who arrives three seasons in can buy the middle of the ladder in an afternoon instead of replaying three seasons of assignments.
Director and above are earned or contested at any price. That is the only thing that keeps the ranks above Manager worth holding.
Two employees at the same rank are not the same asset, and the badge says which is which without anyone having to check a history.
