Uncommon Toolkits

The 6 systems every solo business has to get right.

Each one is a working document for a single thing that decides whether a solo business survives. Every one of them is built to be opened on the day you need it and used the same afternoon, with the frameworks, the decision points and the fill in templates already there.

Buy the one you need now, or take the set and have the whole system on day 1.

What they cost

Any single toolkit

$199

All 6, the complete set

$849
You save $345, which is 29 percent

Buy the set and the full $849 credits toward your first year of Uncommon Company, where all 6 are included. Nobody pays twice.

How the set fits together

6 skills, in the order you will actually need them.

These are not 6 versions of the same advice. Each one covers a distinct skill a solo business runs on, and they arrive in a sequence, because the answer to each question depends on the one before it.

01

Build the model

What exactly am I selling, and to whom does it matter?

02

Choose the market

Where is money already moving that I could reach?

03

Reach the market

How do the right people find out that I exist?

04

Close the buyer

How does a conversation turn into a paying customer?

05

Survive the runway

How many months do I have, and how do I get more?

06

Sustain the system

How does this keep running without consuming me?

You do not have to buy them in that order, and most people do not. Start where you are stuck. If you are not sure where that is, the first one is upstream of everything else in the set.

The set

Pick the one that solves what you are stuck on right now.

Each one is complete on its own and covers a single skill in full. Nothing here is padded to justify a price, and none of them repeats another.

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01

How to Build an Expertise Business Model

Turn what you already know how to do into something a market will pay for, repeatedly.

What it gives you

There is a repeatable way to convert corporate expertise into a business model, and it works the same whether your background is design, finance, operations, legal, engineering or marketing. What changes is the input. The structure underneath does not, and this is that structure.

  • How to translate what you did inside a company into an outcome somebody outside it will buy
  • What shape it should take: consulting, advisory, fractional, or a productized service
  • How to price it before you have any proof
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02

How to Identify and Dominate an Untapped Niche

Find a market with buyers already spending, few operators, and a door you can actually get through.

What it gives you

Choosing a market is a research task with a method, not a hunch you have to trust. This is the method: how to see where money is already moving, how crowded a space really is, and whether you personally can get in.

  • How to find where money is already moving, before you commit
  • How to read a market for competition without guessing
  • How to validate the niche while you still have a salary
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03

How to Market Your Solo Business Without Ads

Get found by the people who need you, with no budget, no agency and no team.

What it gives you

A bootstrapped business does not have an ad budget in year 1, and does not need one. Search, content, communities and partnerships can carry a solo business to a full book of work, as long as you know which ones pay back and in what order to build them.

  • Search, content, communities and partnerships, in the order that pays
  • What one person can sustain, and what will quietly collapse
  • How to build distribution that keeps working while you are with clients
Most urgent
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04

How to Close Every Sale as a Solo Founder

Close a deal in conversation without becoming somebody you would not want to be.

What it gives you

Closing is a learnable skill, not a personality trait. You do not need sales experience or a natural talent for it. You need a proven structure for the conversation, and the language to use at each point in it, and that is exactly what this covers.

  • The shape of a conversation that ends in a decision
  • How to name a price out loud and then stop talking
  • What to say to the objection you were dreading
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05

How to Maximize Your Runway as a First-Time Solo Founder

Survive long enough to find out, on a number of months you can actually name.

What it gives you

Time is the one thing you cannot buy back later, so resourcefulness is a core founder skill rather than a virtue. With spending protocols and a few deliberate strategies, the same savings can buy you twice the months, and months are what let a business get good.

  • How to calculate a real runway, including the costs nobody budgets for
  • Spending protocols that decide in advance what gets money and what does not
  • How to buy yourself more months without cutting the things that matter
After your first customer
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06

The Solo Founder Operating System

Build it so the business does not route entirely through you, and year 2 is easier than year 1.

What it gives you

In a business of 1, the owner becomes the bottleneck by default. It takes deliberate design to prevent that: deciding early what gets automated, what stays manual, and what simply does not get done, so the business can grow without needing more of you.

  • The lean operating model, and where the bottlenecks actually form
  • What to automate, what to leave manual, and how to tell the difference
  • The burnout avoidance that makes staying out sustainable
The complete set

Take all 6 and save.

The set costs less than 5 of them bought separately, and every dollar of it credits toward your first year of membership if you join later.

6 bought one at a time

$1,194

The complete set

$849
You save $345, which is 29 percent

Join Uncommon Company later and the full $849 comes off your first year, where all 6 are included anyway.

Fit

Who should buy a toolkit, and who should wait.

These solve a specific problem for someone already in motion. If you are earlier than that, buying one now is the expensive way to stay stuck.

Buy a toolkit if

  • You know which part you are stuck on and want the system for that part
  • You would rather read and apply than sit through calls
  • You are already building and need the piece that is missing
  • You want to start this week without waiting for a cohort or a date

Consider Plan A instead if

  • You do not yet know what you would sell, and need that decided first
  • You want your own work read and marked rather than a document to follow
  • You need a deadline and somebody expecting the work by it
  • You would rather do all 6 of these in order, with guidance, than pick one
Questions

Before you buy.

Start where you are stuck, not at number 1 out of tidiness. If you cannot name what you sell, start with the expertise business model, because every other toolkit assumes you have answered it. If you know what you sell but not who buys it, start with the niche. If you have both and no customers, start with closing. The operating system is the one to leave until after your first customer, since building systems before you have any is procrastination in a productivity costume.

A downloadable document you work through, with worksheets and templates included. Length varies by subject, because they are written to be complete rather than to hit a page count. None of them is padded, and none of them is a summary.

Not at once. Most people buy 1, use it, and come back for the next one when they hit the next wall. The set exists because the discount is real and because the credit toward membership makes it the cheaper path for anyone who was going to end up joining anyway.

What you already paid comes off the price of the set. The same applies going into membership: if you own toolkits and later join Uncommon Company, where all 6 are included, what you spent credits toward your first year. Nobody pays for the same thing twice here.

All 6 are included in full at every level of Uncommon Company. If you are already sure you want the membership, join and the toolkits come with it. The standalone prices exist for people who want the systems without the community.

These are instant downloads, so they are not refundable once delivered. That is exactly why every toolkit page states the failure it prevents and who it is not for before you reach the button. If a page has not convinced you it applies to your situation, do not buy it.

No, and most buyers are not. They are written for somebody working evenings and weekends around a job, which is when the runway and the operating system questions matter most.

They are built on how markets, buyers and solo operations behave, rather than on whichever platform or tool is current, so the substance holds for years rather than months. If a toolkit is revised substantially enough to be a new edition, that edition is sold separately and you will hear about it first.