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Books by Kevin Champlin

Practical AI, written for people who actually ship.

Three no-fluff books on using AI to run a business, build software, and handle everyday life — written for operators, builders, and everyday users. All on Amazon.

Just Use It — New The Operator's Edge Ship It
Just Use It — The No-Jargon Guide to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude for Parents, Students, and Business Owners book cover

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Just Use It

The No-Jargon Guide to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude for Parents, Students, and Business Owners

You don't need to understand AI. You just need to use it.

ChatGPT. Gemini. Claude. Everyone's talking about them. Nobody's teaching the people who actually need them how to use them in real life. This book is for parents helping a kid with homework they haven't seen since 1997. For students who want to study smarter without getting in trouble. For small business owners buried in emails, proposals, and policies. For freelancers losing hours a week to writing about their work instead of doing it. And for seniors who keep hearing about this AI thing and want in — without being talked down to.

  • The 4-letter framework that makes every AI tool give you better answers on the first try
  • A full comparison matrix: which tool wins for which job — and when to pay for which subscription
  • Hands-on exercises every chapter for parents, students, business owners, freelancers, and seniors
  • Copy-paste prompts for dozens of real-world situations
  • Image generation with DALL-E 3 and Imagen 3, step by step
  • Custom GPTs, Claude Projects, Gemini Live — explained like a neighbor, not a consultant
  • Privacy warnings, hallucination alerts, and scam warnings nobody else prints for seniors
  • Real stories from 30+ users — a landscaper, a teacher, a law student, a grandmother — who built workflows saving them hours a week

If you've been waiting for an AI book that treats you like a smart adult who just wants to get something done — open to Chapter 0 and start typing. You'll have built something useful in the next ten minutes.

Get it on Amazon Done-for-you: AI-Ready Team Audit →

Kindle $7.99 · 397 pages

Prefer the 1:1 version? The AI-Ready Team Audit applies this book's framework directly to your business — led by Kevin.

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The Operator's Edge

Practical AI for Small Business Owners Who Don't Code

The gap between businesses using AI and those that aren't is widening every quarter. This book closes it.

You don't need a technical background, a big budget, or a dedicated IT team. You need the right workflows — and a step-by-step system to build them. The Operator's Edge is a no-BS, chapter-by-chapter playbook that shows small business owners exactly how to deploy AI across every function of their business — customer communication, marketing, operations, sales, and hiring — using tools available today, at price points that make sense for businesses with real constraints.

  • Ready-to-use prompt templates you can deploy the same week you read them
  • Real-world case studies from landscapers, HVAC companies, yoga studios, insurance agents, event planners, and more
  • A complete 30-day AI rollout plan for owners running full-time businesses, not full-time learners
  • The 3-layer AI stack framework — pick 3–5 tools, skip the other 500
  • Workflow-first approach: stop experimenting with one-off prompts and start building repeatable systems
  • Honest coverage of the real risks — privacy, accuracy, over-automation — and exactly how to manage them

By Day 30, you'll have five AI workflows running, a prompt library built for your specific business, and a system that keeps compounding long after you set the book down. The businesses pulling ahead aren't smarter or better-funded. They just started earlier.

Get it on Amazon Done-for-you: AI-Ready Team Audit →

Kindle $2.99 · Paperback $14.99 · 74 pages

Prefer the 1:1 version? The AI-Ready Team Audit applies this book's methodology directly to your business.

Ship It — How I Built Two Apps in One Afternoon Using AI — And How You Can Too book cover

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Ship It

How I Built Two Apps in One Afternoon Using AI — And How You Can Too

What if you could build a real, working app for your business — this afternoon — with zero coding experience?

Most small business owners think custom software is out of reach. Too expensive. Too technical. Too time-consuming. Kevin Champlin was tired of watching that gap grow — so he sat down with an AI assistant, opened a laptop, and built two fully functional apps for iOS and Android in a single afternoon. No computer science degree. No six-figure dev team. No months of waiting. Ship It is the step-by-step playbook that shows you exactly how he did it.

  • A plain-English walkthrough of Kotlin Multiplatform — write once, run on every phone, tablet, and desktop
  • Prompt-by-prompt instructions for using Claude AI as your personal developer, designer, and debugging partner
  • Real project screenshots and code you can copy, paste, and customize
  • The exact afternoon schedule Kevin followed to go from blank screen to working prototype
  • How to publish your finished app to the App Store and Google Play without a developer-account headache
  • A no-jargon glossary and troubleshooting guide so you never get stuck

If you can write an email, you can ship an app. This book proves it.

Get it on Amazon Done-for-you: Agentic Workflow Implementation →

Kindle $3.99 · Paperback $14.99 · 107 pages

Want Kevin to ship it for you? Agentic Workflow Implementation is the engagement version of this playbook.

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