Practical AI income skills — real rates, real prompts, no hype
Step-by-step playbooks for starting a small AI service business: what to charge, the exact prompts, and how to land your first client. Every rate sourced, every prompt actually run.
Latest Playbooks
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AI Freelance Rates by Service 2026: What Upwork Actually Pays
Real AI freelance rates by service in 2026 — what Upwork buyers pay for content, resumes, social media, and website builds, with beginner vs.
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Local SEO Fix-Up for Beauty Salons: Sell It This Week
73% of Phoenix beauty salons have no local SEO structured data — here’s the exact playbook to audit, fix, and sell this service for $150–$350 starting
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Gemini Meeting Notes Service: Charge $200–$400/Client
Start a Gemini meeting notes service this month: exact setup steps, copy-paste prompts, what to charge, and how to land your first paying client.
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Best Free AI Stack for Service Business: Under $20/Mo
The exact free and low-cost AI tools that run a real service business for under $20 a month — what each one does, where the free tier ends
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Trading Command Center: our stock dashboard, rebuilt as a readable paper-trading bot
Sheets dashboard (GOOGLEFINANCE) + a transparent Python bot on Alpaca: SMA20/50 cross with RSI filter, position/loss caps, Telegram alerts, optional Claude news digest. Paper by default; live requires a confirm phrase.
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Local Lead Machine: a script that finds local businesses without a website and drafts the first message
A lead list that comes out of a script: Places API search, transparent scoring (no website +40…), Claude-written first messages grounded in the listing, CSV + summary. Demo mode included.
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Every playbook is built from dated public sources: real freelance rate listings, official tool pricing pages, and prompts we actually run and show the output of. We publish the numbers and the sources, not ratings. Tool links may be affiliate links; that never changes what we recommend.
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