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Three field manuals about building with AI — design that beats the defaults, a business stack that costs zero, and a money ladder with the math left in. No filler, no recycled listicles, no 300 pages of padding.

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The Human Touch — Design for Vibe Coders
The AI Money Ladder
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Three manuals. Each one weekend of reading, months of use.

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19 pages9 chaptersPDF
Manual 01 — Design

The Human Touch

Design for vibe coders

Everyone ships the same AI-built page: same font, same gradient, same three equal cards. This is the fix — every typographic, color, layout and motion decision that separates an authored page from a generated one, each rule copy-paste ready, plus a worked redesign of a default page and the full verified resource library.

Inside: the sameness problem · typography that signals a human · color discipline · breaking the template · motion · copy · the 13-point audit · worked example · the library
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13 pages9 chaptersPDF
Manual 02 — Operations

The Zero-Dollar Stack

Run a real internet business on free

Hosting, database, design, AI, payments, email, analytics — the complete free-tier stack with the verified limits and none of the guesswork. Three real deployment patterns included, plus the one-page map of every tool, its ceiling, and the exact signal that says start paying.

Inside: Cloudflare as the spine · design without budget · AI without an API bill · crypto payments · free channels · three deployments · the full map
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14 pages8 chaptersPDF
Manual 03 — Income

The AI Money Ladder

From zero to two thousand a month

For non-technical operators: the offers that clear fastest at each rung, with prices, scripts, and the honest unit economics. Includes the outreach script, the one-page proposal skeleton, the pricing floor calculation, and a thirty-day plan that front-loads cash and feedback.

Inside: rung one offers · productizing · the two engines · reading demand · distribution · the honest math · scripts · thirty days
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