From Badge to Business: A Practical Guide to Launching Your Own AI & IT Consulting Practice - Softcover

Summers, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798193739876

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

You can fine-tune a model, build an automation pipeline, and architect a system most people can't even explain. None of that tells you how to land your first client, price a project when the outcome isn't guaranteed, or get paid on time.

Built to Bill is the practical, no-fluff playbook for AI and IT professionals ready to go independent — written for people who already have the technical chops and are stuck on everything else.

Inside, you'll find:

• The five mental shifts that separate consultants who build a real practice from those who quietly take a full-time offer within eighteen months
• A framework for choosing a niche specific enough to actually generate referrals
• How to price and scope AI work when the outcome can't be fully known upfront
• A 90-day plan that turns the whole book into an actual to-do list

Plus ready-to-use contract and time log templates, so the business paperwork isn't something you're building from scratch.

If you've already got the technical skills and just need the playbook for everything else — the pricing, the pipeline, the paperwork — this is it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798193739876
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 41