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FOR FREELANCERS & SOLO STUDIOS — SIX VOLUMES IN ONE FILE

Say the
hard thing
once.

Six playbooks for the hard client conversations — getting paid, scope creep, ghosting — $16–25 each, $79 for all six. Each one is an interactive file: pick what happened, compare the ways to answer, copy the draft. 364 of them, already written.

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  • Single HTML file
  • Opens in any browser
  • Works offline
  • No account
  • Yours forever

Knowing isn't
the hard part.

The reply box has been open for half an hour. You know exactly what they did. You're still deciding how firm is too firm.

So don't write it.
Copy it.

No prompt to write. No third attempt to talk it out of sounding too soft. 364 drafts, already calibrated — find the one you're in and send it.

NOT A PDF — A FILE THAT ANSWERS BACK

You don't read it.
You use it.

An ordinary ebook ends where your problem starts — you close the PDF and still have to write the email. This is closer to a mini-site saved on your device: one file that opens in your browser, online or off, and does the next part — it asks what happened, shows you the ways to answer that the facts support, and hands you the draft.

01 — DIAGNOSE

Pick what happened.

No table of contents, no page 47. Answer what the client just did, and the file opens on your situation.

02 — COMPARE

Compare what the facts allow.

Two to four ways per situation, each with gains and costs. What the evidence can't back shows up locked or weakened — so you never send a bluff.

03 — SEND

Copy the draft.

Your client's name, your project, already in place. Under 120 words, no apologies. One button, then send it.

Works offline · no account · no expiry — it's a file, and it's yours. Get a sample and try exactly this →

NOT JUST A FILE — A PLUGIN FOR YOUR AI

Take the method
into your AI.

The last chapter of every volume is a button. It copies an install prompt — the nine strategies, the decision matrix, the writing rules, and that volume's full situation map — ready to paste into ChatGPT's custom instructions or a Claude Project. From then on your AI names the situation, picks the strategy the facts allow, and answers in the file's register. The drafts themselves never leave the file: the prompt carries the judgment, the file keeps the words.

The free samples ship the same chapter — install it from a sample before you spend anything.

Firm is the last resort.

364 drafts, sorted by how hard they push — only thirteen end the relationship.

SOURCE — CLEARBOUND SYSTEM v3 / 364 DRAFTS 0 / 364

WHAT WE SELL — SIX VOLUMES, $16–25 EACH

Find the one
you're in.

Start with what the client just did — the line under each cover is the moment that volume is written for. Each one is a single file: no account, no login, no expiry, priced by what's actually in it.

Start with one. If you take the System later, that volume's price comes off it — starting small costs nothing extra.

VOL 01 / 06

Getting
Paid

"Accounting is processing it." No date attached.

22 SITUATIONS · 49 DRAFTS

Late, partial, and silent. The ladder runs from a polite nudge to work paused — you decide how far up it goes.

17 IN FLIGHT5 PREVENT
$18Open →
VOL 02 / 06

Scope
Creep

"While you're in there — just one small thing."

40 SITUATIONS · 98 DRAFTS

The "just one small thing" that became three weeks. The thickest volume, because this is where most projects go.

33 IN FLIGHT7 PREVENT
$25Open →
VOL 03 / 06

Ghosted

Read three days ago. No reply.

23 SITUATIONS · 46 DRAFTS

Silence, at every stage it can happen — after the quote, mid-project, after delivery. Written so you don't sound anxious.

19 IN FLIGHT4 PREVENT
$18Open →
VOL 04 / 06

Difficult
Client

The blame doesn't match the record.

25 SITUATIONS · 50 DRAFTS

Late-night messages, moving opinions, blame that the record doesn't support. Includes the ones where the mistake was yours.

22 IN FLIGHT3 PREVENT
$18Open →
VOL 05 / 06

Lowball

"That's above our budget."

29 SITUATIONS · 83 DRAFTS

Budget-first asks, exposure offers, the discount that was supposed to be one time. Holding your number without lecturing.

25 IN FLIGHT4 PREVENT
$22Open →
VOL 06 / 06

Breakup

You already know it has to end.

19 SITUATIONS · 38 DRAFTS

Ending it without burning the reference — whether you end it, they do, or it has to happen today.

15 IN FLIGHT4 PREVENT
$16Open →

THE SYSTEM — NOT A SEVENTH BOOK

All six, in one file
that remembers.

Answer six questions and it works out which volume you're in. Keeps one history per client across all six. Tells you when a pattern has become a trajectory. Plus the six things to settle before a project starts.

$79 Six volumes separately — $117 Save 32% Get the System →

FIVE FREE TOOLS — NO SIGNUP

The tools diagnose.
The books respond.

Each tool answers one question — is this in scope, is this client a risk, is this rate sustainable. When the answer calls for a hard conversation, the matching volume has the exact words.

FT-001 — SCOPE CHECKER NO ACCOUNT · ANSWER IN SECONDS

Paste the request and what you agreed to. Find out whether it's in scope — before you say yes.

CLEARBOUND.APP — SUBSCRIPTION

When the file
isn't enough.

The playbooks cover the situations we could write down. The app handles the ones we couldn't — your client, your wording, your history. Playbook owners pay half, for as long as they subscribe.

client wrote
"Can we jump on a quick call this weekend to sort the extra pages?"
strategy: price
Happy to cover the extra pages — they're outside the current scope, so I'll send a quick change order first...
copy

MOCK-UP — NOT A LIVE SCREEN

S-001 — RESPOND

Paste it. Get the reply.

The volumes cover the situations we could write down. This one handles yours — your client, your wording.

  • Same nine strategies as the volumes
  • Drafts in your voice, not a chatbot's
  • Copies straight to your clipboard
$4.50$9 /moPlaybook owners
See Respond →
message analysis
Underlying toneImpatient
  • Scope expansion without new terms
  • Weekend / off-hours pressure
Suggested strategy → Anchor

MOCK-UP — NOT A LIVE SCREEN

S-002 — READ

What they actually meant.

Paste the message. See the tone underneath it, the patterns worth noticing, and which way to answer.

  • Flags the pattern before you reply
  • Names the mode to use next
  • Points you at the matching volume
$7$14 /moPlaybook owners
See Read →
client health
Meridian Co.
Good
Vale Studio
Drift
Orbit Labs
At risk
2 invoices overdue · 1 scope alert this week

MOCK-UP — NOT A LIVE SCREEN

S-003 — TRACK

Which one is drifting.

A health score per client, built from what you log — not from reading your inbox. No mailbox access, ever.

  • Updated as you record what happened
  • Weekly digest of what needs attention
  • Transparent — you can see why the score moved
$9.50$19 /moPlaybook owners
See Track →
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WHO WROTE THESE

Twenty years on the
other side of these emails.

Jay — first freelancing, now a one-person agency. What is in these volumes started as my own notes: the replies that worked, written down properly so the next person does not have to work them out the hard way.

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BEFORE THE NEXT ONE STARTS

The words are
already there.

Six volumes. 158 situations. 364 drafts. One file that opens in any browser and stays yours.

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