How to Use Client Stories and Case Studies in a Book (Without Breaking Confidentiality)
Named, anonymised or composite: when each client story is honest, how to pass the recognition test, a permission email to copy, and case study to chapter.
Topic 08
Frameworks, Stories and Original Knowledge
Turning your method, client stories and hard-won knowledge into chapters — without inventing anything.
How to Extract Your Knowledge Before You Write a Book
45 self-interview questions, critical incident prompts, a recording routine and a four-week capture plan to get what you know onto paper before chapter one.
How to Create a Framework for Your Business Book (From Patterns You Already See)
No named model yet? Derive one from 10 to 20 real client situations, test that the stages hold, pick the right framework type, and know when not to force one.
How to Turn Your Framework Into a Book: Shapes, Chapters and What to Give Away
Your framework is the skeleton, not the book. How to pick a book shape, what each chapter needs beyond the model, how much to give away and how to name it.
How to Find and Organise Real Stories for Your Book
34 story-mining prompts, a five-column story bank, where to place each story, and what to do when a point has no true story behind it. Nothing invented.
How to Protect Your Original Ideas When Writing With AI
Three meanings of protect: keeping your thinking yours, keeping client data safe, and owning the words. A positions-first exercise and a paste checklist.
How to Stop AI Inventing Facts and Stories in Your Book
Checking AI chapters afterwards catches some invented facts. Preventing them catches more: source packs, placeholder rules and a claim list per chapter.
How to Build a Book Around Your Proven Methodology
How to put the consulting method clients pay you to run into a book: what to teach, what to keep, how to show decision points and credit public standards.