These are the working tools from a book that isn't finished yet — the scorecards, calculators, automation blueprints and prompts for running a real business on evenings and weekends without quitting your job.
They work now, and they work without the book. Take whichever one matches the problem you have this week.
Every template, blueprint and prompt from The 4-Hour Side Hustle lives here — plus the tool prices, which are kept up to date here rather than frozen on a printed page.
You don't need the book to use any of it.
Nothing here is gated. Every tool on this page runs, calculates and downloads without an email address. That's deliberate — a book about honest funnels shouldn't have a dishonest one attached to it.
Twelve of them. If you're reading the book, the chapter is on each one.
Part I — Work out what you've got
The Automation Scorecard /scorecard Score a business idea on the five axes that decide whether it can ever run without you. Tells you which axis is doing the damage. Chapter 2.1 · interactive The Build/Run Ledger /ledger Which of your repetitive tasks are worth automating, and in what order. Does the payback arithmetic so you don't build the wrong three things first. Chapters 1.1 and 1.3 · calculator The Command Center /brain The Airtable base every other tool writes into — four tables to start, two logs you add later. Copy it instead of typing field names for twenty minutes. Chapters 3.1 and 9.2 · Airtable templatePart II — Build the machines
The Refund Chain /refund The six-module automation that processes a refund without you reading the email. Forty minutes to build, or four to import. Chapter 4.3 · Make.com blueprint The Clip Chain /clip-chain One recording becomes a fortnight of short video, from upload to scheduled post. Nine modules, all four caption prompts, and the refusal token that stops it publishing weak clips. Chapter 5.2 · Make.com blueprint The Article Chain /article-chain Turns the same recording's transcript into a searchable article that reads like you wrote it, marking its own gaps instead of inventing filler. Chapter 6.2 · Make.com blueprint Sales Page & DM Scripts /swipe The nine-block sales page worked twice end to end, the five-email welcome sequence, and the three-message DM flow that gives before it asks. Chapters 7.1 and 8.1 · swipe copy The 90-Day Build Sprint /sprint The whole build, week by week, with hour budgets. Put in a start date and it prints as a wall chart with real dates on it. Chapter 10 · printable planReference
The Stack Directory /stack Every tool in the book with what it costs today, a free-tier column, and a swap for each one. Tick what you use and it totals your monthly spend. This is the page that keeps the book from going stale. Appendix A · live prices The Prompt Library /prompts Every prompt in the book, copy-paste ready, each with the escape hatch that makes an AI refuse rather than invent. Chapter 2.2 and Appendix C · copy-paste All Seven Blueprints /blueprints Every Make.com scenario in the book as importable JSON, plus the Airtable base. The whole set in one download. Appendix D · downloadsNothing matches that. Try a chapter number, or clear the search.
The book itself. Eighteen chapters on going from a tracked week to a business that runs in four hours — with the failures left in, which is the part most books skip.
There's a book coming. Eighteen chapters on going from a tracked week to a business that runs in four hours a week — with the two months someone wasted building the wrong thing left in, because that's the useful part.
It isn't finished. The tools above are, and they don't wait for it.
What actually happened while building this — the chain that broke, the number that moved, the tool that got more expensive. Written for people with a job and about four hours.
Subscribers get the book first, and cheapest.
No sequence of six emails about my journey. Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every one, and it works — that's Chapter 7.3's whole argument and it would be strange to break it here.