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Plan your move from a salary to your own clients, with the money sums done
Give it your job, pay and skills. Get an income floor, fees, a safety plan and a way to leave.
Leave a steady job and earn from your own work is a free AI workflow for the job "Think it through and decide". It guides your AI through several skills in order, passing each step's output to the next.
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What it does
Most people decide to go solo from a feeling: the job is stifling, a few people have said they would pay. The sums come later, after the notice is in. By then a salary's hidden costs, slow payments and a bad month have all been missed. This workflow follows the path Mozart set out in his Vienna letters when he left his employer in 1781, and it adds the parts his own story shows he needed. He counted pupils by the month and took fewer at a higher fee, and he lined up work before and after the break. Later his income fell, he borrowed again and again from one friend, and he asked late. So this workflow builds the floor first, then the fee, then a stress test, then rules for thin months, then the talk with the people who rely on you, and last the way out. It…
You give it
- Your job, pay and what the job covers (health cover, pension, tools, space)
- Your monthly costs, lean and comfortable
- What you could sell, to whom, and any clients or leads you already have
- Real prices others in your field charge
- Who relies on you
- Brand brain (optional)
- A buyer brief (optional)
You get
- A monthly income floor, the steady streams that cover it and what a sick month does
- A fee, billing terms and a client limit
- A plan to win your first paying clients one by one
- The one outcome that could ruin the plan, and a version that survives it
- A cash buffer, rules for thin months and a loan request ready to send
- A plan for the talk with your family or partner, and a leaving plan with a notice letter
Use it when
- You are thinking of leaving a steady job to live on your own clients, sales or commissions.
- You already work for yourself, your income swings and you cannot plan.
- You are being treated badly at work and want to leave in a way you will not regret.
Steps
- Independent income floor calculator: Paste your costs and ways to earn. Get a monthly income floor, the steady streams and what a sick month costs.
- Client pricing planner: Paste your floor and what others charge. Get a fee, billing terms and a client cap that covers your costs.
- First customer outreach planner: Paste your product and the first customers you want. Get a plan to win them one by one and what to learn.
- Ruin risk stress tester: Paste a plan with money, time or your name at stake. Get the outcome that could ruin it and a capped-downside version.
- Lean-year cash rules writer: Paste your plan and monthly numbers. Get a cash buffer, who to ask early and a clear request to send.
- Proposal discussion planner: Paste who you need to win over and what you want. Get a conversation plan that starts from what they want.
- Job exit plan writer: Paste your job, notice terms and first clients. Get a notice letter, a talking order and income lined up for three months.
How to use it
- Download the handoff pack. It's a zip with HANDOFF.md and every skill file this workflow uses.
- Give the folder to Claude (in Claude Code, or as files in a Claude Project) and say "Follow HANDOFF.md".
- Have your costs, your job's terms and three real prices ready. It works step by step and saves each result.
- Do not resign until step 7 says the readiness check passes.