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Getting In

Landing the role, from profile to interview.

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Job Search

Claude Is Your New Career Ally

5 ways to use Claude for the parts of your AI job search that move the needle, from your LinkedIn profile to salary negotiation, and how to automate the rest.

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4 pages · Free · Published Jul 21

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LinkedIn

Get Found, Not Filtered

A step-by-step guide to optimizing your LinkedIn profile so recruiters find you, from the 3-second basics to the sections almost nobody fills in.

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7 pages · Free · Published Jul 29

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Job Search

Beat the 2026 ATS (and Get Found by AI Search)

The formatting and keyword fixes that get your resume through an applicant tracking system intact, plus a GEO section on structuring your online presence so AI search tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity can actually find and recommend you.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 4

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Job Search

Your Non-Technical Way Into an AI Career

Six AI-adjacent roles that don't require a CS degree, and how to translate experience you already have, teaching, support, editorial, research, into the language these roles are actually hired for.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 8

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Job Search

Practice Like It's Real

An AI-era mock interview system: how to use AI role-play, recorded self-review, and human mock partners together, plus a routine for answering the "how do you use AI" question without sounding vague or scripted.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 6

PATH 2

Running the Business

Pricing, systems, and proof, for freelancers building on AI.

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Freelance

Claude Is Your Freelance Co-Pilot

3 prompts that fix what's breaking your freelance income: proposals that don't get read, a pipeline that runs dry, and admin that eats your billable hours.

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5 pages · Free · Published Jul 23

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Freelance

Stop Prompting. Start Looping.

A freelancer's system for landing work and clearing busywork: loop-based prompts for pitching, lead sourcing, and daily admin, instead of retyping the same request over and over.

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6 pages · Free · Published Aug 3

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Freelance

The Value-Pricing Playbook

Why hourly billing punishes AI-assisted speed, how to price the outcome instead, and a 10/80/10 payment structure that protects your margin once revisions get easy to request.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 13

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Freelance

Proof of Process

A polished portfolio piece no longer proves you're good, AI can produce one in minutes. What to add instead: the decisions, rejected options, and honest tradeoffs that show your actual judgment.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 15

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Freelance

The AI Clause

The 3 gaps most freelance contracts have around AI-assisted work, ownership, disclosure, and liability, plus a starting clause you can adapt with a lawyer before your next contract.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 22

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Freelance

The AI Orchestrator Playbook

A role map for splitting input agents from output agents, a handoff rule for deciding which one earns a task on purpose, and a prompt for mapping your own current AI stack against it.

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5 pages · Free · Published Sep 1

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Freelance

Building Your Agent Team

Four roles worth delegating (Researcher, Drafter, Admin, Follow-Up), how to route work across them without everything defaulting to whichever tool is already open, and a simple week-by-week way to build the stack.

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6 pages · Free · Published Sep 5

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Freelance

When to Trust the Agent, When to Check Its Work

A three-variable framework, reversibility, visibility, and dependence on private context, for deciding how closely to check what an agent hands back.

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7 pages · Free · Published Sep 8

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Freelance

The Q4 Reset

A three-part check on pipeline, pricing, and capacity before the last quarter starts without you.

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7 pages · Free · Published Sep 10

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Freelance

Renegotiating Retainers

How to audit what's actually changed in a retainer, reframe the renegotiation around the outcome instead of the hours, and have the conversation without it turning into an ultimatum.

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4 pages · Free · Published Sep 12

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Freelance New

The September Portfolio Audit

What to cut, what to keep, and how to make your work sendable in thirty seconds before Q4 sends more eyes your way.

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4 pages · Free · Published Sep 17

PATH 3

Staying You

Using AI without sounding like everyone else.

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Job Search

The Skill-vs-Feature Test

A 3-question framework for telling which AI skills are worth real time investment, and which ones the next product update will quietly absorb for free.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 11

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Freelance

The Authenticity Advantage

Concrete tactics for sounding like an actual person when every feed sounds the same: the generic-writing tells to avoid, and how to bring back opinions, specifics, and a consistent voice.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 18

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Freelance

Editing AI Drafts So They Actually Sound Like You

A generic-phrase cut list and a 30-45 minute editing routine that turns a competent first AI draft into something only you could have written.

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5 pages · Free · Published Aug 20

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