Why this exists.

The first time I got underpaid, I had no idea. The second time I had a hunch. The third time I had a number — theirs — and no clue what to do with it. By the fourth time, I'd done the math.

The number wasn't close. The gap was years of compounding. They had data. I had a feeling. That's the whole reason I'd been leaving money on the table.

Most of us walk into the meeting that decides our year with a feeling. The person across the table walks in with a chart, a target, and a script. That's the whole reason a 30-minute conversation reshapes the next twelve months of your life.

AMMO is the answer. Real pay data — 1M+ data points across 495 jobs and 50 cities, refreshed every month. The read on the company across the table — how much money they have, are they hiring or cutting, did they just lay people off, what's been in the news. And a coach in your pocket that turns both into the exact line you can read tomorrow morning.

AMMO is built for individuals. Not HR. Not companies. Not recruiters. The person sitting across the table from them. If a feature would make AMMO more useful to a boss than to the person negotiating, it doesn't ship.

That means no employer dashboards. No recruiter integrations. No deals that turn the user into the product. The business model has to point one way or it points nowhere.

A few things AMMO will never do: sell your data, share it with your employer, or pretend the math is a feeling. The receipts are cited on every line. The sources are listed on the methodology page. If a number is wrong, the email is on that page too.

A few things AMMO will always do: tell the truth even when it stings, give you a real number even when "it depends" would be easier, and write the script — including what to say when they push back.

Independent. Solo for now. Not paid by employers, recruiters, or hiring software companies. The product owes nothing to anyone except the person reading this.

AMMO is meant to grow with you no matter where you are at in your career. First job. Big raise. Boss leaves. Company cuts the team. Going from senior to manager. Going from manager to director. The tool is the same. The math gets sharper as you do.

Come to the table loaded.