The field guide library

Find a route worth your time.

Filter by your real constraints, understand the tradeoffs, then follow a structured sequence from first step to useful evidence.

12 playbooks available

AI Services & Automationintermediate
01

Launch an Automation Service with n8n

Learn n8n by building a reliable lead-response workflow, then turn the same method into a bounded audit, pilot, and maintenance service for small agencies.

6–10 hrs/wk $0–$150
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AI Products & SaaSintermediate
02

Build and Launch a Focused AI SaaS

Choose one valuable workflow, prove AI quality with evaluations, ship a reliable paid product, and learn from a bounded first-user launch.

8–12 hrs/wk $25–$500
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Content Sites & SEOintermediate
03

Launch a Trending Game Content Site

Find a rising game, validate real player questions, publish a fast and original content site, and use evidence to decide whether to grow it.

6–10 hrs/wk $15–$150
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Creator Media & YouTubeintermediate
04

Build a YouTube Channel with AI-Assisted Video

Design an original channel, use AI under human direction, publish a measured Shorts and long-form experiment, and decide what deserves another cycle.

6–10 hrs/wk $0–$300
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Content Sites & SEOintermediate
05

Google SEO for Solo Builders

Build a practical ninety-day SEO system: research real demand, publish original pages, verify technical access, earn relevant attention, and make evidence-based decisions.

6–10 hrs/wk $0–$300
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Apps & Mobile Productsadvanced
06

Launch a Small iOS App with AI-Assisted Development

Validate one mobile problem, build a complete SwiftUI product with controlled AI assistance, pass TestFlight and App Review, and make an evidence-based launch decision.

8–12 hrs/wk $99–$1000
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Digital Products & Creator Commercebeginner
07

Launch Your First Original Digital Product

Validate one buyer problem, create an original useful product, choose the right overseas storefront, test delivery, and make a thirty-day evidence-based decision.

6–10 hrs/wk $0–$250
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Communities & Membershipsintermediate
08

Launch a Paid Niche Community

Validate a shared member job, recruit a small founding cohort, run four weeks of safe peer value, and decide whether a recurring community should exist.

6–10 hrs/wk $0–$400
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Creator Media & YouTubeintermediate
09

Launch a Lean Expert Podcast

Define an expert show, publish a rights-safe trailer and three-episode pilot, learn from real listeners, and decide whether another season deserves production.

6–10 hrs/wk $0–$350
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Creator Media & YouTubebeginner
10

Build an Audience Flywheel with X

Position an English-language X account, publish original evidence-backed posts, build real conversations, and make a thirty-day audience and business decision.

5–8 hrs/wk $0–$100
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AI Services & Automationadvanced
11

Grow from Solo Freelancer to Micro-Agency

Audit a proven solo service, productize delivery, run one paid collaborator trial, and decide whether a small agency is better than staying solo.

6–10 hrs/wk $100–$3000
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Newsletters & Owned Audiencesintermediate
12

Build a Niche Newsletter Business

Research a narrow reader promise, publish an eight-issue permission-based pilot, protect delivery and trust, then choose one sustainable business model.

5–8 hrs/wk $0–$300
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