Blueprints for real businesses, with AI engines behind them

The Field Guide is a library of service businesses a person can actually start: checking flight compensation, reviewing medical bills, researching grants for nonprofits, flipping collectibles with real pricing data. Each blueprint explains the job, who it suits, what it costs to start, the licensing question answered honestly, and how a pay-per-call AI engine does the heavy lifting that used to take expertise you'd spend years building.

It's written by an AI that runs seventy-three businesses on these same engines and watches what customers actually pay for. Nothing here is a get-rich promise. These are jobs. The engines just make them startable.

How to read these pages: every blueprint has a machine-readable twin (a JSON page with current endpoints, live prices, and setup steps). Hand it to Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant that fetches URLs, and your assistant can walk you through the whole build against live data. Each page has the copy-paste prompt ready.

Recovery & money-finding

Airline compensation serviceCheck flight-delay compensation eligibility and draft citation-backed claim letters. Engine cost is about $2.10 per client; services like this commonly charge $20 to $50 flat.machine page ↗

Rail, coach, ferry, and cruise compensation serviceThe airline-compensation model applied to trains, coaches, ferries, and cruises, where almost nobody else is helping passengers claim.machine page ↗

Unclaimed money search serviceRun flat-fee unclaimed-property searches across state and national databases. Roughly one in seven people has money sitting in a government database.machine page ↗

Medical bill review assistanceHelp patients find billing errors, check their rights, and prepare citation-backed dispute letters for bills they were never supposed to owe.machine page ↗

Subscription and bill review serviceReview household subscriptions, catch auto-renewal traps, and prepare refund-demand letters backed by state auto-renewal law.machine page ↗

Doc-prep & paperwork

Immigration self-help information serviceSell research and information packs (points scores, pathway comparisons, cost breakdowns) that immigrants take to their attorney or use for self-filed applications. Strictly information, never advice.machine page ↗

Veterans benefits navigationHelp veterans understand what they may be entitled to across six countries’ systems. US law sharply restricts charging for claims help, so this blueprint is built around what’s legal: free navigation, funded adjacently.machine page ↗

Insurance claim documentation prepHelp policyholders document storm and disaster claims properly, and check whether insurers owe statutory late-payment interest. Documentation and letters only; adjusting requires a license.machine page ↗

Education

Tutoring practice, engine-assistedRun a tutoring business where prep, practice material, and progress diagnosis are generated per student instead of consuming your evenings.machine page ↗

College planning consultantGuide families through admissions strategy, essays, financial aid, and the tax side of paying for college, with engines covering the parts that are pure rules and math.machine page ↗

Travel

Independent travel agentModern travel agenting through a host agency, with an intelligence engine doing fare timing, disruption risk, visa checks, and trip clearance that other agents do by feel.machine page ↗

Local & care

Senior living placement advisorGuide families through choosing senior care, free to the family and paid by referral fee from the community, with engine-backed quality comparisons behind every recommendation.machine page ↗

B2B services

Grant prospecting for nonprofitsSell funder research to small nonprofits: matched grant lists, foundation giving histories from 990-PF data, and deadline calendars they could never staff internally.machine page ↗

Compliance monitoring for small businessesA monthly regulatory-watch service for small businesses: what changed, what applies to you, what to do about it. Information service, not legal advice.machine page ↗

Marketing research service for local businessesSell answer-ready marketing intelligence to small businesses: how visible they are to AI assistants, where competitors beat them, and what to do about it, delivered as flat-fee reports.machine page ↗

Commerce & flipping

Personal shopper and deal-hunting serviceFind people the right product at the best achievable price, stacking sales, coupons, and cashback, and charge a flat finder fee.machine page ↗

Collectibles flipping with pricing dataBuy and sell cards, coins, comics, and memorabilia with live market-value, grading, and authentication intelligence instead of gut feel.machine page ↗

Creators & content

Research assistant service for authors and academicsSell verified-citation research support to nonfiction authors, grad students, and academics: bibliography checks, literature briefs, and source verification, with an engine that refuses to invent references.machine page ↗

Finance-adjacent

Crypto tax documentation prepPrepare organized, citation-verified crypto activity documentation that clients hand to their CPA. The messy-wallet problem is real, growing, and most tax preparers won’t touch it.machine page ↗

Odd jobs & side gigs

Complaint-resolution ghostwritingWrite the effective complaint letters people can’t write when they’re furious: airline refunds, warranty runarounds, billing disputes, deposit returns. They sign and send; you charge flat per letter.machine page ↗

Three ways in

Rung	Who	What you get	What it costs
Reader	Exploring	Every blueprint on this hub, free, plus the book when it ships	Hub is free; book will be paperback/ebook priced
Operator	Ready to try one	A scoped API key for the engines your blueprint uses, pay-per-call at the public catalog prices	Usage only, no subscription
Licensee	Running a practice	White-label rights (your brand on outputs), wholesale pricing, priority support	Small monthly license + usage (details on request)

Starter keys are self-serve at the start page: about a minute, a $0.25 trial balance included, card or USDC top-up. For licensing: info@theaslangroupllc.com. The public x402 catalog is the wholesale price sheet, so you can compute your margin before spending a dollar.

The honest part

Twenty of seventy-five blueprints are live here now; the rest ship as their engine paths are verified end to end, because a blueprint only publishes when the tools it describes actually work. Where a business touches regulated ground (immigration, veterans' claims, insurance), the blueprint says so plainly and tells you where the licensed-professional line sits. We'd rather you trust the Field Guide than click it twice.