Will my drop actually sell?
Before you cut, print, cast, or sew a single unit: run a landing page, collect interest, and let Kiln turn those signals into a projected paid conversion — with an honest interval, not a hopeful point estimate. Fold in what a unit costs and what you'll charge, and get a go / no-go on the production run.
1. Your smoke test
Put up a "get notified / reserve yours" page and drive some traffic to it. Then enter what happened.
2. The production run
The projection
The economics, worst to best case
| Scenario | Buyers | Units sold | Profit |
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Units sold is capped at your run size — you can't sell what you didn't make. Profit = revenue − full production cost of the run.
Why "24 emails" isn't "24 sales"
Interest is not money. Kiln discounts signals by how likely they are to convert to a real payment, then treats your smoke test as a small sample — because it is — and carries that uncertainty all the way to the profit line. The result is a range of outcomes and a decision rule, not a single seductive number that gets a garage full of unsold inventory made. The projection is a Beta-Binomial posterior on paid conversion. See the self-tests.