Guides

For people who deliver their thinking

Practical, honest answers for consultants, freelancers and small agencies — answer first, limits stated, nothing oversold. Each guide stands on its own; together they are the playbook.

The big picture

How to stop clients reusing your work with AI

Scope, contract, delivery habits and the file itself — what raises the cost of “paste it in and regenerate”, and what doesn't.

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Hands-on

How to protect a Word document from ChatGPT

Five things that work, ranked, and the popular ones that only look like protection: Restrict Editing, PDF, white text.

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Contract

An AI clause for freelance contracts

Starting language for AI reuse of your methodology, line by line, with a narrower variant for nervous clients. To review with a lawyer.

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Background

What happens to files you upload to ChatGPT

Where the file goes, what the model actually reads, why copy-paste and upload differ, and what that means for a deliverable you sent.

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Consulting

Protecting your methodology as a consultant

The method is the asset. How to license it, deliver it, and keep the reusable core out of a one-click prompt.

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Detection

Can you tell if someone used AI on your document?

Tells that sometimes work, marks and tripwires that sometimes work, and why silence is never proof.

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Compare

Watermarking vs cloaking documents

One tells you where a copy came from; the other makes the copy a poor input for an AI. Different jobs, often both.

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Sales

Sending a proposal before the contract is signed

The riskiest document you send. An approach-summary version, a cloaked full version, and the line that makes it normal.

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