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Reclaiming Your Hours with AI.

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The book is the thing you read. The workbook is the thing you fill in. They are built from the same material, and chapter 3 of the book is the audit the workbook walks you through, so most people end up wanting both.

The book · read it

Reclaiming Your Hours with AI

The full book. Start at chapter 1 and work down the ladder, or jump to the chapter that names the job currently eating your week.

The browser version does the arithmetic for you and remembers what you type in, on your own device. The PDF is the one to print.

The workbook · fill it in

The companion workbook

Sixteen short modules with the exercises laid out to be finished, not admired. It adds up your hours as you go.

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Where should the files go?

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The tick is optional and the files come either way.

What is in it

Twenty-six chapters. Five rungs. One climb.

Every chapter names one job you are doing by hand, walks you through handing it off, then asks you to time what came back. The chapters stack into five rungs, climbed in order, and the order is the method: admin first, because those wins are the fastest, and every rung you finish funds the nerve for the next one.

The whole book as a climb of five rungs, from the week that runs you at the bottom to the week you run at the top. Admin, chapters 6 to 9, 7 to 13 hours a week back. Delivery, chapters 10 to 13, 7 to 15 hours. Marketing, chapters 14 to 16, 4 to 8 hours. Sales, chapters 17 to 19, 1 to 3 hours plus leads answered and close rate. Leadership, chapters 20 to 23, 6 to 13 hours. A footnote says the ranges are what readers report, five chapters return no countable hours at all, and your sheet is the truth.

The admin rung, up close

The first rung in detail, because it is the one you will climb this week. Chapter 6 is the thirty-minute install; the three after it each kill one job and leave a blank for what you measured.

The four chapters as rungs on a ladder. Chapter 6 builds an assistant that knows your business and is the setup, with no hours yet. Chapter 7 kills reading everything to find the four messages that matter. Chapter 8 kills scheduling ping pong and meetings eating the hours you needed. Chapter 9 kills the morning detective work and the Friday reconstruction. Chapters 7, 8 and 9 each leave a blank for hours per week, and they add up in a checkpoint box at the end of the admin rung, which you then multiply by your Buyback Rate.

A look inside

Real pages, not mockups. This is what the four chapters actually look like when you open them.

The opening page of chapter 7. Dave, an electrician in Moncton, checks his email nine times a day and eight of those times there is nothing in it for him.
Every chapter opens on a real owner and a real Tuesday. No jargon, no setup, no assumed knowledge.
A diagram from chapter 7. Forty new messages go through a first pass and come out as four piles: four replies drafted, two handoff notes, one booking with two times offered, and thirty-three ignored with a one-line reason each.
Every idea gets a picture. This one is forty messages becoming four decisions, and nothing sends itself.
A script from chapter 7 with two fields filled in. The reader has typed their key senders and their team, and the script below has rewritten itself to include those details, with a copy button underneath.
The scripts rewrite themselves as you type your own details in, then copy with one button. Your answers stay on your device.
The checkpoint at the end of chapter 9. A tally box adds inbox, calendar, and brief plus wrap hours into an admin total, surrounded by text saying that what readers report is not the same as your own measured sheet.
And every chapter ends by counting. The number is one you measured, which is the only kind worth having.

Screenshots are from the actual file. The ranges the book quotes are what readers report, hedged every time they appear, and your own sheet is the number that counts.

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Why this exists

The promise, in plain terms

  • One address, this one, that always has the newest edition
  • Every future edition free, for as long as the book exists
  • A changelog in plain language, so you can see what moved
  • Chapter numbers never change inside an edition, so you can cite them to someone

You got an hour back

Show someone what worked.

If a chapter gave you back real time, the number is worth showing. A screenshot of your tally, a photo of the page you wrote on, or a couple of sentences about what changed. Pick whichever is easiest. Someone one chapter behind you needs to see that it works for a business like theirs.

Door one · private

Send it to me

Straight to my inbox. I read every one of these, and it is the fastest way to shape what gets written next.

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Door two · out loud

Post it in the community

Same thing, where other owners can see it. This is where someone one chapter behind you finds out it is worth finishing.

Post it in the community →

Before you send anything: cover or blur your customers' names, addresses and phone numbers. Your tally and your own words are the interesting part, and their details are nobody else's business.

Nothing you send gets shown anywhere without asking you first, by name, in a reply. If you would rather it stayed between us, say so and it will.

What has changed

Every edition, newest first.

Edition 1.1 August 2026

The reader-feedback revision. The central number is now the Reclaim Rate, the five rungs are named for the jobs they take off you, the front matter offers a fast way straight to chapter 6, every build chapter states its typical hours back right under the title, and two closing chapters covering the same idea became one, so the book is twenty-six chapters. Anything you already built keeps working; the scripts are unchanged where you pasted them.

Edition 1.0 First edition

The first complete edition: the five-rung ladder, every script, and the tally that adds your hours back up.

Chapters keep their numbers inside an edition. If something genuinely new has to go in between two chapters, it gets a letter, like 12A, so a number you wrote down still points at what you meant.