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The AI
starter kit.

Everyone will sell you a tool. Almost nobody will tell you which job it is for, or how to know whether it worked.

Three sheets: a map of which tool fits which job, a thirty-day plan you fill in before you buy anything, and the loop that stops a trial quietly becoming a subscription nobody uses.

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What is inside

Sheet 1

The map

Eight jobs you actually repeat, and the tool worth reaching for first — plus what each one is bad at.

  • Drafting and rewritingChatGPT or Claude
  • Reading long documentsClaude or NotebookLM
  • Finding current factsPerplexity or Gemini
  • Moving data between appsZapier or Make
  • Answering the same questionsA scoped assistant
  • Code and technical workClaude Code or Copilot

Sheet 2

The plan

Seven questions to answer before you buy a subscription. If two of them stop you, that is the sheet doing its job.

  1. Which task keeps coming back?
  2. What does it cost today?
  3. Who owns the trial?
  4. What result would make this worth keeping?
  5. Where does a person still check the work?
  6. What could go wrong, and who would notice?
  7. After thirty days: keep, change or stop

Sheet 3

The loop

Five steps and one decision. The arrow back is the part most people skip, and it is the part that keeps a pilot honest.

  1. 01 Pick one task Repeated, boring, written down
  2. 02 Set the baseline Hours now, errors now
  3. 03 Build the small one Smallest thing that could work
  4. 04 Keep a person in it One step always gets read
  5. 05 Measure it Against 02, not against hope
  6. Keep · Change · Stop Decide out loud, on a date, with the numbers in front of you.

Changed something? Run it again — one loop, thirty days, then the next task.

Filled it in and hit a wall?

Bring the sheet. We can work out the next useful step together.

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