The Library, Mapped: Six Manuals Available, Seven in Development, and the Order to Read Them In

Two dispatches introduced the manuals in the order they were released: the free Kit, Secrets of Propaganda and The Art of Influence in the first; the two Level 2 playbooks in the second. The shelf has grown since. One manual that has been available for weeks has never been introduced at all, the three leadership manuals now ship as a set, and seven more are in development. This dispatch is the map — because the manuals are written to be read in an order, and the order is the point.

The shelf, as of September 2026

Six available. Seven in development. Prices in USD, PDF, instant delivery.

• AI Survival Kit — 46 pages, free. Level 1: the briefing, the seven strategies, the 90-day plan.
• Secrets of Propaganda — 113 pages, $17. The twelve manipulation tactics used against you daily, decoded.
• The Art of Influence — 116 pages, $17. Systems of persuasion that compound.
• The AI Strategy Playbook — 69 pages, $17. From experimentation to transformation: the strategic framework for AI-ready organisations.
• Critical Thinking Power Playbook — $24. Clear reasoning, sharp analysis, logic that holds under pressure.
• The Human-AI Education Playbook — $24. Learning alongside AI: EEQ, AIQ and the four-quadrant system.

And the set: The Leadership Intelligence Trilogy — Propaganda, Influence and Strategy together for $42, against $51 bought separately.

The one nobody has been told about

The AI Strategy Playbook went on the shelf without a dispatch. It is the organisational counterpart to everything else in the library, which is written for one operator at a time.

Its audience is the executive, team lead or strategist who is responsible for AI adoption — and the operator who wants to lead an AI initiative inside an organisation without waiting for permission from above. The gap it addresses is the one the numbers keep describing: MIT's Project NANDA found 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots returned nothing measurable, and named integration, not model quality, as the cause. Pilots that never became operations. This manual is the framework for the step from one to the other.

It is also the third leg of the Trilogy, and the reason the three are sold as one.

Why the Trilogy is one system, not three books

Read in order, the three manuals build on each other. First, know when you are being manipulated — Secrets of Propaganda is the immune system. Second, build authority that is earned rather than engineered — The Art of Influence is the architecture. Third, deploy both inside an organisation that is becoming AI-native — The AI Strategy Playbook is the operating manual. Immunity, then authority, then strategy. Skip the first and the second becomes the thing the first warns about.

The reading order across the whole library

Level 1 — orient. The Kit. Free, 46 pages, read once. If you have not, start there; everything else assumes it.

Level 2 — how you think and learn. Critical Thinking Power Playbook and The Human-AI Education Playbook. The second dispatch covered these: mental infrastructure, not motivation. Read them before the Trilogy, because the Trilogy assumes you can tell a sound argument from a persuasive one.

Level 3 — how you operate with others. The Trilogy. Manipulation, influence, strategy — the three dimensions of leading people and organisations that are being reshaped by the same technology reshaping you.

Level 2 is the individual. Level 3 is the room. Most people want the room first. The library is ordered the other way on purpose.

Seven in development

No dates — a manual ships when it is finished, not when a calendar says so. What each one is for:

• Think Like a Boss, Live Like a Legend — the mindset frameworks of elite operators and empire builders. For operators who want to upgrade the mental operating system, not just the skills.
• The Art of Intelligence — strategic thinking from the world's intelligence traditions. For strategists, analysts and leaders making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information.
• Breakthrough Innovation — how to spot, capture and lead disruption before it disrupts you. For entrepreneurs and product leaders.
• Building Influence — authority, trust and strategic positioning without becoming a full-time content creator. For professionals who need visibility in their field.
• The Dealmaker's Playbook — negotiation, leverage and closing for high-stakes operators. For sales, partnerships, fundraising, any negotiation where the outcome matters.
• The Future Authoring Playbook — design your strategic future before the world designs it for you. For anyone at a crossroads or an inflection point.
• The Personal Empire Playbook — income streams, influence and legacy that AI cannot automate. The natural next step after the Kit, for operators who want to own assets rather than rent them.

Subscribers to the briefing hear first when each one ships.

Your Next Move

Start at your level. If the Kit is unread, it is free and it is here. If you have done Level 1, the two Level 2 playbooks are the next $48. If you lead people, the Trilogy is $42 for the three.

Read in order. Immunity before influence, influence before strategy. The library is built that way; reading it out of order is how the manuals get used against you.

The full shelf, with details on every manual, is in the Library.