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.
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.
Read the guide → Hands-onHow 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.
Read the guide → ContractAn 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.
Read the guide → BackgroundWhat 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.
Read the guide → ConsultingProtecting 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.
Read the guide → DetectionCan 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.
Read the guide → CompareWatermarking 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.
Read the guide → SalesSending 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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