Why was a system built for Ahn's Plano Tae Kwon Do without being asked?

It is part of the Drop series. Each week Nouman Sadiq picks one independent business, studies how it actually operates from what is publicly visible, and builds a complete working system in response to a real gap — here, a student who stops coming is invisible until the card is cancelled, and a parent who decides at 9pm on a Sunday to enrol can only fill in a form and wait for someone to call back. The business keeps it whether or not they ever reply, and there is no invoice and no obligation.

What does the Membership Retention HQ actually do?

A complete membership system that flags a student who is drifting before they quit, runs the win-back, fills classes, prices tiers honestly and handles no-shows — replacing a paper roster and a form. It runs on sample data in this published version, but the workflow is real: Churn risk scoring that flags a student whose attendance has quietly dropped; Win-back sequences aimed at students who stopped before their next belt; Tier optimizer showing what each membership level actually earns; Class fill view so quiet slots are visible before they are cancelled.

What does it cost to have one of these built for my business?

Drops are free to the business they are built for. A commissioned build — your real workflow, your real data, running on your own infrastructure — is scoped to what the business needs and starts at $2,000, with a written scope agreed before any payment beyond the deposit. Contact info@noumansadiq.com or WhatsApp +1 (929) 939-4060.

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The Drop Series · DROP-007

Ahn's Plano Tae Kwon Do

Independent martial arts · Plano, TX. A complete operating system, built unasked and given free — sample numbers, real workflow.

Built for you. Unasked.

Master Ahn — you know who stopped coming. The system doesn't.

Forty years in one room in Plano, the first Tae Kwon Do school in the city, a direct line back to your father. You do not have a marketing problem. Schools like yours almost never do.

What you have is the thing every school has: the student who was there three times a week in January, twice in February, once in March — and whose parents keep paying until they don't. You can feel that happening from the front of the room. But nothing writes it down, so nothing acts on it until the cancellation arrives, and by then the conversation that would have kept them is six weeks too late.

And the smaller one: a parent who decides on a Sunday night that this is the year fills in a form and waits.

So this week I built the memory: attendance that flags a student who is drifting before they are gone, the win-back aimed at the belt they were closest to, what each membership tier actually earns, which classes are quietly emptying, and enrolment that works at 9pm. Your workflow, sample numbers. Keep it, correct it, or make it real. No invoice either way.

The parts that are already true

The first Tae Kwon Do school in Plano

your own words

Founded 1986, same location ever since

your home page

New students start with a Google Form

your contact page, Aug 2026

Only published price: the $30 intro

your website, Aug 2026

Everything below is how those true things could run. All operational numbers are sample data. This is an unsolicited concept build by Nouman Sadiq — not affiliated with or endorsed by Ahn's Plano Tae Kwon Do. It becomes theirs the moment they want it.

Your operating system — live, click anything

FS-04Ahn's Plano Tae Kwon Do

Live00:00:00

MRR

$76.2K

▲ 6% vs last month

Active members

850

+34 net · last 30d

Monthly churn

3.2%

down from 5.1% baseline

Wins this month

$3.4K recovered MRR

Members · churn risk score

rescored nightly

MRR at risk · score 60+

$407/mo

3 of 8 members · $8,220 lifetime value exposed

Member detail · Marcus ChenLTV $4,820

Visits · 30d

Visits · 90d

Risk score

Unlimited · $189/mo

Recommended action

Downgrade to 10-pack · save the member, keep $70/mo

Score blends visit frequency decay, days since last visit, plan-to-usage mismatch, and card health. It runs every night — so a member drifting away is on your list weeks before the cancel email arrives.

What this is worth to you

Deliberately conservative estimates, built from what's publicly visible about Ahn's Plano Tae Kwon Do and national average rates. Every assumption is listed below — if any of it misreads how you actually run, tell us and we'll correct it.

10.5hrs / week

Front-desk hours returned

Work the system does with nobody watching it

$40.8K/ year

Conservative value

10.5 hrs × 52 wks × $22/hr loaded + retained tuition

68days / year

Working days handed back

Eight-hour days, returned to the people you already employ

And for the people you serve

A parent can enrol at 9pm on a Sunday, when the decision is actually made.

They can see the schedule and book a class without calling.

They hear from you when their child starts drifting — while it can still be fixed.

They know what the next belt requires and how close their child is.

Where the hours come from

3 hrsTaking attendance and keeping the roster currentAssumes ~30 minutes a day across six class days of marking and transcribing.

2 hrsChasing the form submissions and playing phone tagAssumes 8 enquiries a week at ~15 minutes each including missed calls.

2 hrsWorking out who is behind on paymentsAssumes a weekly reconciliation of who has paid against who is attending.

1.5 hrsNoticing, by memory, who has stopped showing upAssumes ~90 minutes a week of thinking back through rosters — the task this replaces entirely.

2 hrsPlanning testing and belt progressions by handAssumes a monthly half-day of eligibility checking, spread across the weeks.

Where the recovered revenue comes from

$21.6KStudents kept who would have quietly drifted outAssumes just 2 students a month caught early enough to keep, staying 6 further months at a $150/month tuition (2 × 12 × 6 × $150 ÷ 2 to avoid double-counting overlap ≈ $21.6K). Tuition is not published on your site, so $150 is a conservative national placeholder — tell me the real number and this corrects itself.

$7.2KSunday-night decisions that currently wait for a callbackAssumes 4 enrolments a year that complete at the moment of decision instead of cooling off, each staying 12 months at $150/month.

Hourly cost of $22 is the US average dental receptionist wage ($18.73/hr, ZipRecruiter, August 2026) plus roughly 25% employer burden for payroll taxes and workers' compensation. It is a national average, not your payroll — we have no way to know that, and we haven't guessed at it. Hours are rounded down. Nothing here counts the same hour twice, and nothing assumes you fire anyone: the value is your existing team getting that time back for patients instead of paperwork.

Your move — one tap, goes straight to my phone

Three honest answers. Any of them makes my week.

You read our school rightLet's talk about making it realWhatsApp →You got something wrongTell me what I misread — I'll fix itWhatsApp →Make this live with our real rosterWire it to the actual schoolWhatsApp →

Another independent business gets one of these next. Another finished system, free.

What this is, and what it isn't

This one was free because it's a sample.

Ahn's Plano Tae Kwon Do never asked for this and never paid for it. It was built from the outside, on sample numbers, to show what the answer to their specific problem looks like when someone actually builds it. That is a concept build, and giving one away free is how this practice introduces itself. It is not the product.

A drop — what you are looking at

Designed from the outside — from what is publicly visible about the business

Runs on sample data, connected to nothing real

One shape of an answer, published so anyone can judge the work

A commissioned build — what a client gets

Built to requirements gathered on a call, not guessed from a website

Wired into the real calendar, phone, records, payments and POS

Built on your stack — WordPress, Shopify, or hosted for you

Yours to keep: the code, the configuration and the data

Tested against how your team actually works, and supported after handover

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Priced to scope, open-ended from $2,000. A 25% deposit reserves your build slot and is fully refundable if the requirements call shows it isn't the right fit.