Founder Field Manuals

Field-tested guides for
founders who ship.

In the Marines, every piece of equipment came with a manual. FounderFieldManuals applies that same logic to building businesses — practical guides built around the actual tools, prompts, and workflows solo founders use to operate at scale.

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The Full Catalog

Six guides. One operating system.

Each guide is a standalone field manual — focused, actionable, and built to run, not read once and shelve. New guides added regularly.

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Field Manual No. 1 $14

The AI Prompt Engineer's Playbook

The complete system for writing prompts that actually work — across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, Runway, Perplexity, and GitHub Copilot.

51 pages 60+ prompts 7 platforms
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Field Manual No. 2 $14

The Solo Founder's AI Automation Stack

The exact 12-automation setup solo founders use to run operations, content, and customer comms without hiring.

15 pages 12 automations ready to deploy
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Field Manual No. 3 $13

The Developer's Guide to Cursor & GitHub Copilot

Side-by-side workflows for the two most powerful AI coding tools — so you ship faster without constantly switching tabs.

22 pages 2 tools side-by-side
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Field Manual No. 4 $12

The No-Code AI App Builder's Handbook

Build real, shippable apps with AI across Lovable, Bubble, Glide, Zapier, and Softr — no engineering degree required.

18 pages 5 platforms ship faster
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Field Manual No. 5
New $22

The E-Commerce Seller's AI Operations Kit

SOPs, workflows, and AI tools to run your store like a system — not a full-time job. 6 ready-to-run SOPs, 15 prompt templates, and a 90-day roadmap.

27 pages 6 SOPs 15 prompts
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Field Manual No. 6 $17

The Privacy-First AI Handbook

Run capable AI entirely on your own hardware using Ollama and LM Studio — no cloud, no data leaks, no subscriptions.

33 pages 2 tools no cloud needed
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About

Darnell Baker

In the Marines, every piece of equipment came with a manual. You didn't figure things out by trial and error — you read the manual, learned the system, and executed.

When I transitioned out and started building software and AI products as a solo founder, I kept looking for that same thing: a clear, direct playbook that told me exactly what to do and in what order. Most of what I found was too vague to act on or buried inside a course I didn't have time to finish.

FounderFieldManuals is the result — a growing catalog of practical guides built around the actual tools, prompts, and workflows I use to build and ship as a one-person operation. No filler. No theory for its own sake. Just the system, documented clearly, so you can execute.

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