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Build an income AI can't take.
Real local trades you can start this weekend — and run lean with AI doing the quoting, the admin and the marketing. The kind of work that stays yours when the office jobs don't.
For the after-hours side-hustler · and the office worker who saw AI coming → read this
The headline feature
An AI toolkit in every manual.
Every title ships with a full Excel toolkit and an AI prompt library mapped to the real jobs of the trade — ninety-five prompts strong in the flagship. You bring the work; AI does the back office.
Paste a job, get a priced, branded quote in seconds.
Excel planners turn a customer list into an efficient round.
Payment chasers, reminders and review requests, drafted instantly.
Local posts, listings and leaflets generated from the prompt library.
AI-proof by design
The work stays human. The income stays yours.
AI can write the essay; it cannot clean the windows, clear the gutters or hand back the keys on a spotless flat. These are hands-on, local, recurring trades — durable in a way a desk job built on tasks software now does is not.
Start before you register
Your first £500 before you fill in a single form.
No company, no website, no marketing spend required to begin. Each manual takes you from your first "yes" to your first paying customers, and you register with HMRC once the money is coming in — not before.
See the first-weekend pathUK-accurate, not guru noise
Real thresholds. Real numbers. No hype.
Written from inside the trade and kept current: the actual VAT line, the real insurance, the honest pricing and the genuine earnings. Trade-body authority, not a webinar funnel.
Plus ongoing fees, territory rules and their brand on your van.
A webinar funnel, an upsell ladder, and a mentor you never meet.
The complete book, toolkit and prompt library. Free updates for life. Refund without friction.
Real pages from inside No. 01
Available now · No. 01
The Window Cleaning Works
Build a recurring local income — startable this weekend, run lean with AI. Second edition: 21 chapters, 26 figures.
The catalogue
35 trades. One standard.
Every title is the complete book on starting and running one trade in the UK.
Read it. If it isn't the real thing, we'll refund you.
No franchise contract. No territory rules. No mentor you never meet. Buy a manual, read it, and if it isn't the honest, UK-accurate, do-it-this-weekend book it promises to be, email us — we'll refund you in full and you keep the files. The only thing you're risking is the price of a book.
Find your tradeIn plain English
Questions, answered.
What does an 'AI-proof income' mean?
It means an income built on work AI and software cannot do for you: hands-on, local, relationship-based trades like window cleaning, gardening or end-of-tenancy cleaning. The work stays human; we just use AI to run the back office — quoting, admin and marketing — so one person can run a serious operation lean.
What is The Works Co.?
A small UK publisher of plain, practical operating manuals and AI toolkits for starting and running real local trades. Each title is the complete book on how to start and run that business in the UK, with an Excel toolkit and an AI prompt library. One product, one price, no franchise fee and no guru tax.
Do I need to register a business before I start?
No. You can earn your first money before you register anything. Our manuals show you the path to your first paying customers and first £500, and you register as a sole trader with HMRC once the income is coming in — not before.
Who are these manuals for?
Two kinds of people: the after-hours side-hustler building a second income and some security, and the office worker who saw AI coming — or has been made redundant — and wants something tangible AI can't replace.
Pick your trade. Start this weekend.
The office jobs aren't getting safer. This kind of work — hands-on, local, yours — isn't going anywhere. Choose a manual and you can be knocking on your first door by Saturday.