I'm Lane Belone. Former Green Beret. Author. Builder. I've been working with AI as a sovereign craft for a few years now. Long enough to watch what it does to the operators who use it well, and what it does to the operators who use it without a practice.
The ones without a practice get fast. Their output stack grows. Their voice gets quietly averaged. By month six, they're shipping work that reads like everyone else's. By month twelve, they've forgotten what their own voice sounded like before the model started suggesting how it should sound.
The ones with a practice get faster too. The difference is what they're accelerating. The frame they brought to the tool. The voice they protected on the way in. The business they decided was theirs before the AI got involved.
This Field Guide is the practice. Seven Moves I've installed in my own week. Each one earned through writing my way through the Tuesday-morning interior question and finding the structure that holds on the other side.
Best guess. Operationalize. Practice is the audit.
Seven chapters. Seven Moves. Twenty to forty minutes to read. Two to three weeks to install.
Each chapter names a piece of the practice. Each one ships The Move, an install you can drop into your week before the chapter's even fully landed. The Move is the point. The reading is the on-ramp.
Read in order on the first pass. Install the Moves as you go. The Field Guide is built for two to three weeks of practice plus a quarterly re-read.
Chapter 1. Wildly Productive. Congratulations. Now What?
The Tuesday-morning interior. The output stack that looks impressive from outside and feels pointless from inside. The Move: a three-minute weekly self-check that audits what your dashboard can't see.
Chapter 2. Whose Business Are You Building.
The paradigm-shifting question productivity AI can't ask. Three layers: the business itself, the voice, the terms. The Move: sit with the question for fifteen minutes. Write the answer that lands after the first one wince.
Chapter 3. Your Three-Paragraph Manifesto.
Best guess. Operationalize. Practice is the audit. The Move: the three-paragraph template (business, voice, terms) plus the quarterly re-read calendar block. Copy-paste. Set the recurring block before closing the chapter.
Chapter 4. Voice as the Moat.
Voice flattening is a sovereignty problem, not a craft preference. Every generative model averages by default. The texture you developed across years sands down without active protection. The Move: the voice-brief template you install in your Claude or ChatGPT custom instructions. Brief once. Voice protection compounds across every future conversation.
Chapter 5. Pace Layers in Your Business.
What moves yearly, quarterly, weekly, daily. How AI should respect each. Why collapsing pace layers breaks the business. The Move: the pace-layer map template. Four rows. What lives at each cadence. What never moves to a faster one.
Chapter 6. The Three Solutions Rule.
When uncertain, present three options you believe in plus a recommendation with the tradeoff. The reflex that prevents both decision paralysis and shallow first-answer commitment. The Move: the rule itself as a custom instruction. Copy-paste. Your AI learns to default to three-with-recommendation on every uncertainty.
Chapter 7. Paid to Be Yourself. The Quarterly Review.
The arrival. Built for the second pass, the third, the quarterly re-read. The Move: the quarterly review block on your calendar. Manifesto re-read, pace-layer audit, voice-brief check. One sitting per quarter. The structure holds you for the next ninety days.
The felt difference after the Moves are installed.
Simplicity. Clarity. Peace. Playful confidence. You're paid to be yourself, architecting a body of work you're proud of. You've stopped accelerating someone else's business inside your own.
Two files. PDF and AI-Ready Markdown. Both designed to live in your week.
The Field Guide as a designed reading experience and as an AI-native working tool.
The Field Guide (PDF)
Full-bleed, designed for screen or print. Seven chapters, seven Moves. The reading experience the cover promises.
The Field Guide (AI-Ready Markdown with Companion Guide)
One markdown file. Drop it into Claude or ChatGPT. The Companion Guide section at the top tells your AI how to facilitate the Moves. The Field Guide content below gives your AI the installed operating context for every conversation about your business, your voice and your terms.
Voice-brief block, Moves index, first-pass protocol, quarterly review block. Plus the full Field Guide content. End-to-end in one paste.
$9
The full Field Guide. Seven chapters. Seven Moves. Two files designed to install the practice into your week.
Built for the owner who can already use Claude or ChatGPT well enough and is asking a different question than which subscription to buy.
The Move is the point. The reading is the on-ramp.
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