A practical playbook for AI automation in small businesses. Covers the 2026 model landscape with dated pricing, an automation blueprint you can reuse, function-level playbooks, governance with human-in-the-loop gates, an ROI calculator, and four XLSX working templates.
9 chapters
ROI calculator
4 XLSX templates
3 Markdown tools
HTML bundle + PDF
Data as of July 2026
Language: English
39 € excl. VAT
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Created with AI assistance, editorially reviewed — disclosed in the spirit of EU AI Act Art. 50; details inside the product.
What's inside
Nine chapters, built to act on.
Mindset & maturity. What "AI-first" means in practice — and an automation maturity model to locate yourself on the ladder.
The 2026 model landscape. Current models with dated pricing and usage profiles, so you pick the right tool for the job.
The automation blueprint. A repeatable, step-by-step pattern from idea to running automation — reusable across functions.
Playbooks by function. Concrete automations for marketing, operations, finance, and customer interactions.
Tooling & orchestration. How to wire tools together without unnecessary platform lock-in.
Governance & safety. Human-in-the-loop design, data minimisation, and a risk register you can actually fill in.
ROI & prioritisation. A numbers-first framework for deciding what to automate next — with a live ROI calculator.
What an AI-first operating system looks like. How the pieces add up to a system that runs your business, not just individual tasks.
Appendix & templates. Prompt library, disclosure templates, and all four XLSX working files.
Real excerpts
This is what the product looks like inside.
AI-First Operating PlaybookChapter 1
What to automate — and what not to
A task is a good automation candidate when it is repetitive, has a clear input and output, and its errors are cheap to catch and reverse. It is a poor candidate when it needs real accountability, touches money or the law irreversibly, or depends on context only a person has.
Automate freely
Drafting (emails, posts, summaries) that a human still approves
Classifying, tagging and routing incoming items
Extracting structured data from documents for review
First-pass research and note-taking from sources you provide
Keep human (or gate tightly)
Sending money, refunds, or signing anything
Final tax bookings and case-by-case legal or tax decisions
Hiring, firing, and other high-stakes people decisions
Anything a customer would be harmed by if it were wrong
Excerpt from the playbook, chapter 1 — shown with full context in the product.
AI-First Operating PlaybookChapter 7 — Live demo
ROI calculator
Pre-filled with the playbook's worked example. Change any value to see your own numbers.
Enter valid non-negative values. People must be at least 1 and realisation must be between 0 and 100%.
€496
Net saving / month
1.2 mo
Payback period
€5,347
First-year net (after build)
Monthly hours saved = hours/week × people × realisation × 4.33. Net saving = monthly hours × loaded hourly cost − running cost. Payback = build cost ÷ net saving. First-year net = net saving × 12 − build cost.
Estimate based on your inputs, no guarantee of results.
Excerpt from the playbook, chapter 7 — shown with full context in the product.
Nine chapters as an HTML bundle plus PDF, two interactive calculators (ROI calculator and model-cost estimator), four XLSX working templates, and three Markdown tools: a prompt library, an AI disclosure and risk register, and a prompt-injection drill pack.
Which AI models does it cover — and how current is the data?
The 2026 model landscape across the Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini) and xAI families — with dated pricing as of July 2026, checked against the official provider sources, including the subscription-versus-API cost logic.
How is this different from generic AI business content?
Every factual claim is dated and checked against provider sources you can verify yourself. The playbook ships working templates and calculators instead of abstract advice, and builds human-in-the-loop governance into every workflow. No hype, no vendor pitch.
39 € excl. VAT
VAT depends on your country; the final price is shown at Gumroad checkout before purchase. Merchant of Record: Gumroad.
Through this link: 10% off — code WEBSITE10 is applied automatically at the Gumroad checkout.
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