Free playbooks
Short AI guides. One outcome each.
Pillar guides are long-form. These are not. Each free guide solves one specific small-business problem with AI in 10 to 30 minutes. Copy-paste prompts, real numbers, the exact sequence to follow. No email signup, no paywall, no upsell.
AI image generation for Australian small business: the 30-minute starter
A working AI image workflow producing brand-consistent images for social, product mock-ups, and web. Cost: $25-45 AUD/month. Replaces $200-800 AUD/month of stock or freelance design for routine work.
A 30-minute starter that gets you generating usable brand-consistent images for social, product, web, and ads. Covers the four tools worth knowing in 2026, the brand-template pattern that beats pure-AI thumbnails, and the AUD cost / quality trade-offs.
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19/05/2026Claude Projects setup in 30 minutes: the no-code version
A configured Claude Project with voice file, knowledge files, and a working test prompt. Every chat inside the Project sounds like your business from the second sentence.
The exact 30 minutes to set up your first Claude Project, with the voice file, the knowledge files, and a working test prompt. No coding, no terminal, all browser-based. By the end, every Claude conversation will sound like it works for you, not generic AI.
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19/05/2026The customer review response playbook: 10 minutes a week with Claude
A weekly habit where every review gets a thoughtful response in your voice. The 4-star and 5-star ones thank specifically; the 1-3 star ones acknowledge the issue and offer a concrete path to fix it.
A weekly Claude workflow that drafts thoughtful, on-brand responses to every Google, Trustpilot, ProductReview.com.au and Facebook review you receive. 10 minutes once a week instead of 30+ minutes drafting from scratch, and every review actually gets a reply.
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19/05/2026The newsletter drafting playbook: 30 minutes once, then 15 minutes per send
A working newsletter drafting workflow. Setup once. From the next send onwards, a 5-sentence briefing produces a publishable draft in 60 seconds. 15 minutes of human edit and you're sending.
A 30-minute setup that gives you a Claude workflow for drafting weekly or fortnightly newsletters in your voice. From the 5-sentence briefing you already write for the Sunday-night prompt, get a publishable newsletter draft in 60 seconds. Replaces 2-3 hours of weekly newsletter pain.
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19/05/2026The inbox cleanup: 10 minutes a day with Claude
An inbox that triages itself: each morning you spend 10 minutes reviewing AI drafts and pressing send, instead of 60-90 minutes writing replies from scratch
A daily 10-minute Claude workflow that triages your inbox, drafts replies in your voice, and queues only the messages that genuinely need you. By the end of week one you're saving 4-6 hours per week on email.
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19/05/2026Quote drafting from photos + voice memos: the Australian tradie 5-minute starter
A working quoting workflow where on-site photos + a 60-second voice memo produce a structured quote draft you can review + send in under 5 minutes. Replaces 30-45 minutes of after-hours quoting per job.
A 30-minute setup, then a 5-minute-per-job workflow. Take photos at site, record a 60-second voice memo, paste both into Claude. Get a structured quote draft you review, edit, send. Replaces 30-45 minutes of night quoting per job.
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19/05/2026The monthly retrospective prompt: 45 minutes on the last Sunday of the month
A monthly retrospective document: themes you've been working, what's improving, what's regressing, the one big bet for next month, the one thing to stop doing. Builds month-on-month compounding insight no manual retro produces.
A monthly retrospective Claude session that takes 4-5 of your weekly Sunday briefings as input and produces the patterns, the trends, the bets to make for next month, and the things to stop doing. The single most underrated AI workflow for solo operators. Pairs with the Sunday-night briefing free guide.
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19/05/2026Your Sunday-night business briefing prompt
A weekly business briefing that turns 5 sentences of context into a structured plan: ranked priorities, surfaced blockers, three specific actions, and the decision you keep putting off
A 15-minute Sunday evening Claude session that takes 5 sentences of input from you and returns the week ahead mapped: priorities ranked, blockers surfaced, three specific actions to ship by Wednesday, and the one decision you've been avoiding.
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19/05/2026The first 10 prompts every Australian small business owner should run
Ten copy-paste prompts tested against your real business. By the end you'll know which 2-3 AI workflows pay off fastest for your specific work.
Ten copy-paste prompts that demonstrate what AI is actually useful for in a real Australian small business. Run them in order over 90 minutes (or pick and choose). By the end you'll know whether AI is worth investing more time in, and which workflows pay off fastest for you.
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19/05/2026Build a social media powerhouse with Claude Code, the 30-minute starter
A working Claude Code workflow that turns one weekly briefing into 12-15 scheduled social posts across Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook
A single Sunday-afternoon build that gives you a Claude Code workflow producing a week of Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook posts from one prompt. Copy-paste ready. No code knowledge required beyond running terminal commands.
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