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The AI Job-Proofing Playbook (2026)
A short, numbers-first guide to measuring your automation exposure, automating your own routine work first, and turning that leverage into a stronger role. Enter your email and the PDF unlocks instantly.
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What is inside
A 12-question exposure audit
Score your own role in five minutes on the factors that actually predict automation: template output, manual data movement, reviewability and accountability. You get a 0-36 score and a matching action track.
The four things AI still cannot take
Accountability, undocumented context, trusted relationships and problem selection — with a one-line exercise for each so you can name where you already hold ground.
The task ledger and automation levels
A one-week logging method that ranks your work by minutes times repetition, plus the L1–L4 automation ladder and the 40% review rule that stops you automating the wrong thing.
A 90-day plan in 15-day blocks
From first audit to shipped workflow, published SOP, an owned decision and a rewritten CV built on three numbers: hours saved, workflows shipped, decisions owned.
25 prompts that do real work
Copy-paste prompts for decision memos, meeting transcripts, pre-mortems, code review, pricing, interview prep and hallucination control — written for output you can hand to someone else.
Quality control and money maths
A six-rule checked-output checklist, plus the payback, hourly-value and freelance floor-rate formulas you can do on the back of an envelope.
Who it is for
Anyone whose week includes documents, spreadsheets, tickets, code or coordination — employees, freelancers and small teams deciding what to automate next.
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Why we wrote it
Most advice about AI and work sits at two extremes: headlines predicting mass redundancy, and vendor decks promising effortless transformation. Neither helps you decide what to do on Monday morning. This playbook is the opposite — it assumes you have limited time, no budget and one real question: which parts of my work are moving, and what should I build before they do?
Every method in it is the same logic behind the free calculators on this site, condensed into something you can print, mark up and keep next to your keyboard. The exposure audit mirrors our job-risk model, the payback maths mirrors the automation ROI calculator, and the prompt library extends the prompt generator.
It is free, it is not gated behind a sales call, and there is nothing to install. The only thing we ask for is an email address so we can send the file and tell you when the next edition lands.