AI Side Work, Realistically
An honest guide to ten services where AI tools help, what each takes, how to price a first job, and a first-client checklist.
By Whole Life HQ5 parts · about 6,000 words · printable · read online
Who it's for
For curious beginners with spare hours and a skill like writing or spreadsheets who want to try side work without promises or hype.
What problem it helps with: An honest guide to ten services where AI tools help, what each takes, how to price a first job, and a first-client checklist.
What you receive
- Ten services and what each really takes
- Pricing a first job, with a worked example
- Honesty rules: disclosure and no passing off AI output
- First-client checklist, tracker and four-week plan
All 5 parts, in reading order
- Part 1: Start here
- Part 2: Services 1 to 5
- Part 3: Services 6 to 10
- Part 4: Pricing, honesty and your two worksheets
- Part 5: Your first client, a four-week plan and the tracker
Look inside
The first page, word for word.5 parts in total.
Part 1: Start here
Welcome. This guide is a plain look at ten kinds of work where people use AI tools to help them do a job for someone else, and at what it actually takes to get a first client.
It is written for a reader who is curious, not for one who has been promised something. So you will not find a get-started-fast formula here. You will find descriptions of real services, an honest account of the effort, a way to price a first job, and a checklist for the first client.
What this guide does and does not do
It does:
- Describe ten services where AI tools can save time, such as editing, summaries, simple graphics, data cleanup, research and admin.
- Say what each service takes: skills, time, and the checking you still have to do yourself.
- Say what clients usually expect, so a first job does not go sideways.
- Show how to price a first job, with a worked example clearly labeled as an example.
- Explain what not to do, including how to be honest about using AI.
- Give you two printable worksheets, a first-client checklist and a simple tracker.
What is in each part
- Start here
- Services 1 to 5
- Services 6 to 10
- Pricing, honesty and your two worksheets
- Your first client, a four-week plan and the tracker
Made and checked by
Written by the Whole Life HQ team.
How you get it
- In your libraryAfter you pay, it is in your library straight away.
- Any devicePhone, tablet or computer. Print it if you like paper.
- Yours to keepIt stays in your account, and you can come back any time.
