The book
The job market didn't reject you. The old career ladder collapsed.
The AI Entrepreneur: You can still find jobs and clients in the AI era — by switching games. By an engineer who ships production AI for clients — not a guru.
Why this book
Improvement is the wrong goal. Switch games.
More certifications, more LeetCode, more applications into ATS black holes — that's getting better at a game whose rules changed. The engineers doing well right now didn't get better. They switched: from AI worker to AI entrepreneur — one person commanding a fleet of agents, shipping systems companies can't hire for.
This book is the whole playbook: the identity shift, the production stack (RAG, agents, eval-CI, observability), and how to turn one shipped system into a job offer or a client — written from client engagements, not theory.
Inside
What you'll walk away with
- 1.Introduction: You're Early, Not Obsolete — the rejection was never about you; decide which game you're playing
- 2.The Ladder Collapsed — why another certification won't fix it; run the autopsy on your applications
- 3.The New Game: One Engineer, a Fleet of Agents — AI isn't taking your job; run your first fleet drill
- 4.The AI Multiplier: Compounding Output — turn one-off AI wins into a compounding skill stack
- 5.Parallel Engineering: Clone Yourself — run parallel work lanes instead of one task at a time
- 6.Proof Beats Credentials — build public proof without waiting for a job to grant you AI experience
- 7.Agents Without Evals Are Demos — the eval gate that turns your demo into a system worth paying for
- 8.Finding Clients When Nobody's Hiring — build a first-call offer without an agency behind you
- 9.Win the Old Game While You Build Your Exit — make interviewing a trainable rep, not a verdict on you
- 10.Show Up Sharp: Meetings Are the New Interviews — run every consequential call through three artifacts
- 11.Command the Fleet by Voice — keep your own throughput once the agents do the typing
- 12.The Glass Workshop: Your Public Proof HQ — deploy a one-page proof site that gets you forwarded
- 13.The Daily Driver — audit your stack so you never have to figure out the toolkit alone
The book is written in the open — free editions of every chapter live in the public GitHub repo. The full chapters, stories, and exercises are in the book itself.
Launch price
$39.99 at launch — list price $99.99
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After the book
The path continues
Tools of the era
What the AI entrepreneur carries
Teo Deleanu
Taught by Teo Deleanu — 15+ years shipping production software, now building production AI systems on contract. The course is the exact stack and workflow I use on client sprints.