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24 free guides · no email wall to readSell AI to Local Businesses — Without Building Any of It
The exact stack, a sample offer with real pricing, and the first 3 steps to land paying clients this month — reselling voice agents, chat agents & automations under your own brand.
Read the guide →Agent Tokenomics: How to Price an AI Agent for a Client (Without Guessing or Losing Money)
A practical guide to estimating the per-task token cost of an AI agent, then using model-routing — cheap model for the easy calls, frontier model for the hard ones — to cut that cost by half or more. With a worked example you can copy.
Read the guide →The Agentic Security Checklist: Lock Down Your AI Agent Before the Enterprise Demo
An enterprise buyer will ask one question you can't bluff: "What can this agent actually do on a machine, and who decided that?" This is the pre-demo checklist with the HOW behind every line — shell-permission tiers, secrets, the auto-mode blast radius, prompt-injection and tool-allowlists, data-egress, and audit logging — so you walk in able to answer it.
Read the guide →Claude Builds the Deliverable Before the Call Ends
The video showed it: hang up the sales call, and Claude already knows what to build — because it read the transcript itself. This is the copy-paste version: wire your AI notetaker's MCP into Claude, drop in the post-call prompt that turns 'what they said' into a build spec, and hand that straight into a scaffold step. The deliverable starts itself.
Read the guide →Your Claude Code security hook may have been guarding nothing
Before v2.1.176, hook `if` conditions on Read/Edit/Write tool paths silently didn't match — so the guard you wrote for `.env`, `src/` globs, or `~/.ssh` never fired. Here's the copy-paste hook and the 30-second test that proves yours actually blocks.
Read the guide →Claude Fable 5: The Field Guide
The model-picker decision table, the exact request settings, and every error Fable 5 throws that Opus never did — with the fix for each.
Read the guide →Ship Claude Code Skills Inside Your Client's Repo (.claude/skills auto-load)
Read the guide →Don't Trust the First Answer: The Adversarial Sub-Agent Pattern for High-Stakes Decisions
Instead of asking one agent to confirm your hunch, spin up independent evidence-gatherers, force them to cross-examine each other, and only surface the conclusion that survives the fight. A reusable prompt scaffold, the MCP data-wiring step, and a bull-vs-bear report format — for any decision you can't afford to get wrong.
Read the guide →The Two-Part Prompt: Pair a /goal With a Workflow So Claude Verifies Its Own Work
An Anthropic engineer changed one line in how he prompts and his job flipped from checking whether Claude did the work right to checking whether it did the right work. The exact two-part prompt shape: a definition-of-done that loops, plus a workflow that diffs the output against the spec.
Read the guide →Turn Claude Into a Sellable Service: The MCP Workforce Playbook
The video showed one agent generate ad creatives and sort the clean ones into approved, the misspelled ones into rejected — on its own. This is the copy-paste version: the exact custom-connector add flow, the four MCPs that give your agent hands, and how to compose them into one deliverable a client actually pays for.
Read the guide →The /goal Command: Give Claude a Finish Line and Walk Away
Part 1 of 5 — Claude on the Payroll. The shift that changes everything: stop handing Claude tasks like it's a tool, start handing it responsibilities like it's on your payroll. The unlock is one command — /goal — that turns Claude from something that stops at the first checkpoint into an agent that loops, tests itself, and keeps going until a finish line YOU defined is provably crossed. This is the complete walkthrough: the mindset, the exact command, how to write a 'done' it can verify, the overnight jobs worth handing off, and a copy-paste prompt.
Read the guide →Claude as Your Bookkeeper That Cancels Subscriptions Itself
Part 2 of Claude on the Payroll. Connect your bank to Claude, get a clean table + pie chart of everything you pay for, then let Claude open your browser and cancel the subscriptions you don't want — one site after another. The exact connectors, the copy-paste prompts, and the permission guardrails so it never moves money on its own.
Read the guide →One Agent That Builds Your Ad Campaign — and Throws Out Its Own Junk
Point Claude at your offer page and it scrapes it, writes its own prompts, generates a folder of image and video ads in parallel — then looks at every one and files the clean ones under approved/ and its own typo-ridden flops under rejected/. Nobody writes that rule by hand. This is the exact copy-paste version: the Higgsfield connector add flow, the one campaign prompt, what 'good' looks like, and the gotchas.
Read the guide →Tell Claude to Destroy Your Idea: The Prove-It-or-Destroy-It Pattern
Part 4 of 5 — Claude on the Payroll. Most agents confirm whatever you ask them to confirm. This guide is the copy-paste pattern that flips that: a prompt that orders Claude to attack your own idea, parallel sub-agents pulling different sources, Firecrawl wired in so scraping isn't blocked, and a bull-vs-bear report you can download. Research rigour — not financial advice.
Read the guide →Get Paid: Let Claude + Clay Find Your Clients and Write the Outreach
Part 5 of 5, Claude on the Payroll. Every skill in this series is something people pay for. The bottleneck was never the work — it was finding the right people and writing each of them personally, hundreds of times. This is the copy-paste system: connect Clay for verified leads, hand Claude one prompt that spins up a researcher agent per creator, drafts a real 3-sentence DM, and a checker verifies it — while you sleep. You wake up to a lead list you only have to review and send.
Read the guide →The Hermes Agent Field Guide: The Open-Source AI That Writes Its Own Skills
The exact install, the one setup command, and the parts the video skipped: how the skill files are actually structured on disk, how the memory works, how to schedule it, and where it falls short. Every command and path checked against the live Nous Research docs.
Read the guide →The Jevons Paradox for AI: Why "It's Too Late" Is Exactly Backwards
Cheaper AI doesn't shrink the market — it explodes it. Here's the actual mechanism, the receipts (token prices fell ~300x while usage grew thousands of percent), and how to read it so you build instead of freeze.
Read the guide →Karpathy's Method: How to Build 10x Faster with Claude (Spec → Verifier → Environment)
The video gave you the idea. This is the build sheet: one real task taken from a vague ask to a shipped result, with the actual spec, the actual verification prompts, and the actual CLAUDE.md + hook you'd commit.
Read the guide →Nested Subagents: Claude Code's Depth-5 Upgrade (and 5 Patterns That Actually Use It)
Your AI agent now spawns its own agents — up to five layers deep. Here's the mechanics nobody put on screen: how the depth cap really works, the five orchestration patterns with exact prompts, the token math, and the failure modes that eat your budget.
Read the guide →OpenClaw vs Hermes vs Claude Code: Which Agent Actually Runs Your AI Business
The video gave you the verdict. This is the part that decides whether you regret it: the exact files, commands, config keys and billing mechanics behind each agent — side by side, source-checked, with an honest 'pick X if'.
Read the guide →Turn every finished build into a reusable Claude skill
The real IP of a one-person AI agency isn't the code you ship for one client — it's the skills Claude can rerun for the next one. Here's the meta-prompt that converts any finished build into a clean, standalone, reusable skill.
Read the guide →The Wedge: find the AI-blind local business that pays you first
You don't need to be the smartest person with AI. You just need to be in the tiny slice that actually operates it — and sell that gap to the people who never will.
Read the guide →The Ultracode Field Guide: When 16 Agents Beat One Pass
The video told you ultracode argues with itself. This page gives you the decision rule for when orchestration actually beats a single /effort high pass, the three named settings that cap the spend (and exactly where each lives), and a worked cost-vs-quality example so the token bill stops surprising you.
Read the guide →The Provider-Agnostic AI Stack: A Real Migration Guide (Before Gemini CLI Dies June 18)
The video told you to make the model a swappable config value. This is the copy-paste version: the exact keys to create, the harness configs, the local fallback commands, and the gotchas that bite you mid-swap.
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