Corey Haines

Overall tone: conversational, professional, and pragmatic with flashes of dry humor.

The voice is confident but not loud; more matter-of-fact than hypey.

Feels like a knowledgeable operator/founder talking to peers, not a “guru” talking down to an audience.

Style is concise, stripped of fluff, with an emphasis on clarity and directness.

analytical/serious (AI, pricing, margins, SaaS)

light/quirky (zodiac sign, dinosaur fact, DoorDash joke)

Semi-casual professional.

Frequent use of contractions: "haven't", "you’re", "they've", "it's", "I'm".

Business and technical vocabulary is used naturally, without over-explaining: “compute costs”, “usage-based pricing”, “context windows”, “model calls”, “SaaS”, “API bills”.

I used Cursor nonstop when it first came out.

Looking back, I'm proud of this homepage the team put together for a client.

If you don't build resilience and flexibility into your pricing model, you're risking…

If you haven't adapted your pricing yet, you need to.

Third-person appears mostly for generalization, but rarely as the main voice.

Medium energy: engaged but not frantic or overly dramatic.

Fast entry into the topic; minimal warm-up.

Calm, controlled urgency when warning about risks (“A day will come where you check your API bills and find out you've lost hundreds or thousands in a matter of hours.”)

Humor is delivered deadpan, often via contrast or an absurd twist (“Unrelated dinosaur fact:…”).

It felt like cheating.

Time flies.

Dangerous for margins.

Not everyone has the deep pockets of Openai, eventually, reality catches up. And pricing has to as well.

Billion dollar startup idea:

Time flies.

Occasional random-but-clever aside to break seriousness, e.g. dinosaur fact.

Direct engagement with the reader is sparse but effective, often tied to a specific action or opinion (“Let us know what you think.” “Leave a comment if you disagree.”).

First-person singular (“I”) and plural (“we” / “we’ve been trying” / “the team put together”).

Second-person “you” for advice, warnings, and prescriptions.

Be ready to do both and you will thrive next year.

If you haven't adapted your pricing yet, you need to.

Hit me up if you need advice on how to adapt your pricing.