{"product_id":"solo-consultant-ai-playbook","title":"The Solo Consultant's AI Playbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMost AI products promise to 10× your output. This one promises to give you back the hours you're losing to the work \u003cem\u003earound\u003c\/em\u003e the work.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou bill somewhere between $100 and $250 an hour. The hours that pay your rent are the strategy work, the deliverables, the judgment calls. The hours that don't are everything around them — proposals, kickoff emails, meeting prep, deliverable drafting, case-study harvesting, the LinkedIn research before the Thursday call.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA meaningful slice of those around-the-work hours are AI-tractable. Not all of them — anything that requires your taste, your judgment, your client relationship is yours. But a real chunk can move from 40 minutes to 4. The compound effect is whether you bill 25 hours a week or 35 with the same calendar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the playbook for that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn 8-chapter PDF (~50 pages, editorial design)\u003c\/strong\u003e covering:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Operating Model\u003c\/strong\u003e — three categories of consulting work, and the screen to run before any AI tab\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLead Research\u003c\/strong\u003e — pre-call dossier in 90 seconds; better discovery questions than your competitors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProposals\u003c\/strong\u003e — discovery call to signed proposal in 20 minutes (cross-references the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/digitalkreative.co\/products\/proposal-closer-prompt-pack\"\u003eProposal-Closer Prompt Pack\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eClient Onboarding\u003c\/strong\u003e — kickoff email, week-one questions, the internal doc that saves you in week 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMeetings\u003c\/strong\u003e — 5-minute pre-brief, 5-minute debrief from transcript, 2-minute follow-up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDeliverable Drafting\u003c\/strong\u003e — where AI helps and where it kills your reputation; the right workflow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCase Studies \u0026amp; Newsletters\u003c\/strong\u003e — one wrapped engagement, three pieces of marketing, fifteen minutes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuarterly Retrospective\u003c\/strong\u003e — pipeline pattern read, ICP refinement, the \u003cem\u003eone\u003c\/em\u003e change for next quarter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlus:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix A\u003c\/strong\u003e — every prompt from every chapter, copy-paste ready, in a separate \u003ccode\u003eprompts\/\u003c\/code\u003e folder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix B\u003c\/strong\u003e — short, opinionated take on Claude vs. ChatGPT for these workflows, plus tool recs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBonus: AI Operator's Cheatsheet\u003c\/strong\u003e — single-page printable that compresses the 8 chapters into one dense reference. Print it. Stick it next to your monitor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWho this is for\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolo consultants, fractional operators, and small agency owners (1–5 people) who already use Claude or ChatGPT but haven't figured out how to make AI \u003cem\u003eactually\u003c\/em\u003e save the hours it's supposed to. The persona this book serves has done at least ten engagements; if you haven't, the workflows will land on theory you don't yet have the scar tissue to map them onto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWho this isn't for\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst-time consultants. Bookmark for later.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone looking for a “how to build an AI agency” book. There are many of those. This isn't one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone expecting AI to replace the parts of your work that require judgment. It can't, and this book argues against trying.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who reads books and doesn't apply them. The whole premise is running the workflows on real engagements. If you won't, this book costs more than it returns.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat it won't do for you\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt won't ship deliverables for you. It will get you to a 70% draft in a tenth of the time. The 30% is still on you. That 30% is where the bill rate lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhy Claude-first\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaude consistently produces sharper, less-padded business reasoning on structured tasks like the ones in this book. Every chapter also includes a ChatGPT compatibility note at the bottom. Both work; Claude wins on nuance. Appendix B has more on when to reach for which.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFormat \u0026amp; delivery\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInstant download, ~550 KB zipped\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMain book: PDF (~50 pages, editorial design)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBonus: AI Operator's Cheatsheet (1-page PDF, dense, printable)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix prompts: raw \u003ccode\u003e.md\u003c\/code\u003e files for paste-and-go\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll deterministic Typst-rendered output — no AI-generated layouts, no stock illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree updates for life — we ship new versions based on buyer feedback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePairs with\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/digitalkreative.co\/products\/proposal-closer-prompt-pack\"\u003eProposal-Closer Prompt Pack\u003c\/a\u003e is the deeper version of Chapter 3. If proposals are your main bottleneck, that pack ($37) is the more direct fix. The two products are designed to layer — the playbook gives you the operating model across the whole engagement; the prompt pack drills into the proposal step.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFAQ\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow is this different from a “100 ChatGPT prompts for consultants” pack?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose are lists of standalone prompts. This is an 8-chapter book that gives you the \u003cem\u003eoperating model\u003c\/em\u003e — when to use AI, when not to, how the workflows fit together — and then drops the specific prompts inside each chapter with worked examples. 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