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Templates, checklists, and cheat sheets to help you land remote work, get paid your worth, and build a global career. Free downloads, plus premium guides for the moments when you want the full playbook.

3 free tools · 10 free downloads · 4 premium guides

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PDFs · Templates · Cheat Sheets
✨ Early List · Coming Soon
New · AI for Remote Workers
The Remote Worker's AI Edge: Join the Early List
A practical guide to using AI to out-produce, out-earn, and become the obvious hire, paid in dollars, from anywhere. In the works now. Add your email to be first in line when it launches, with early-list pricing.
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🤖 Free Tool · Instant
Job Search
ATS Resume Checker: Score Your CV in 30 Seconds
Upload your resume for an instant ATS score, a prioritized fix list, keyword matching against any job posting, and the remote roles that fit you best. Runs in your browser, your CV is never uploaded anywhere.
Check My Resume Free →
🧭 Free Tool · 2 Minutes
Getting Started
Remote Readiness Scorecard: Are You Ready to Apply?
12 quick questions, no typing. Get your readiness score out of 100, see exactly what's holding you back from dollar-paid remote work, and walk away with a personalized fix plan.
Get My Readiness Score →
💵 Free Tool · Instant
Pricing
Remote Rate Calculator: What Should You Charge in USD?
Pick your skill, experience level, and country. Get a defensible USD hourly and monthly rate from the global remote market, plus what it converts to in your local currency.
Show Me My Rate →
📁 PDF · 1 page
Job Search
Portfolio Cheat Sheet: Remote Jobs Edition
What to include, what to skip, and the common mistakes that make remote hiring managers click away. One page, print-ready.
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📧 PDF · 5 pages
Outreach
5 Cold Outreach Templates for Remote Jobs
Ready-to-send DMs and emails for recruiters, founders, and hiring managers, plus personalisation rules and follow-up timing.
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📊 CSV · Spreadsheet
Productivity
Remote Job Application Tracker
A simple spreadsheet with all the columns that actually matter, status, follow-up dates, salary range, time zone, and next actions. Opens in Google Sheets or Excel.
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📄 PDF · 1 page
Resume
ATS Resume Checklist
The format, keyword, and structure rules that get your resume past the applicant tracking system, and into a recruiter's hands.
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🎙️ PDF · 1 page
Interviews
Interview Prep Cheat Sheet
Before, during, and after, what to do in each phase to leave the interviewer with the impression that you're the obvious hire.
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💰 PDF · 1 page
Negotiation
Salary Negotiation Script
Word-for-word phrases for every stage, deflecting the "expected salary" question, countering, and walking away professionally.
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💸 Free Guide · Live
Getting Paid
Payment Platform Comparison: Wise · Payoneer · Deel · Raenest · Eversend
Fees, speeds, coverage, and which platform to use for which kind of remote income: Wise, Payoneer, Deel, plus Raenest and Eversend USD virtual accounts (both accepted by Upwork). A full side-by-side breakdown, free to read.
Read the Comparison →
🌐 PDF · 1 page
Async Work
Time Zone Collaboration Cheat Sheet
The async mindset, best practices, and tools that make working across time zones feel like an advantage, not a handicap.
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📋 Google Sheet
Money
Subscription Tracker
Stop bleeding cash on forgotten subscriptions. A clear dashboard of every recurring expense, so you can cancel what you don't need and protect your emergency fund.
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📘 eBook · Free
For Beginners & Builders
Remote Work Unlocked: The Complete Playbook
LinkedIn optimisation, Upwork proposals, Fiverr gigs, AI prompts, and the full cross-border playbook for landing dollar-paid remote work from anywhere, with deep regional examples for Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia where the playbook needs them.
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Premium Guides & Toolkits

Full playbooks · One-time purchase
⚙️
For Service Sellers
The Client Lead Engine
Seven done-for-you lead-gen services you can install for any business, with the exact pricing, client intake forms, swipe copy, and 36 ready-to-use templates to deliver them. No marketing degree, no team. Paid in dollars, from anywhere.
Get the Engine, $47 →
🤖
For Job Seekers
AI Job Search Toolkit
Use AI to write tailored cover letters, prep for interviews, and find hidden job listings in minutes, not hours.
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📬
For Outreach & Hiring
Remote Job Starter Pack
Includes the complete 25 Cold Outreach Templates Pack: LinkedIn requests, recruiter outreach, referral asks, VA pitches, agency intros, plus 10 subject lines that get opened.
Get the Starter Pack →
🎁
Best Value · Save $10
Starter Pack + AI Job Search Toolkit Bundle
Get both premium guides together at a $10 discount. The complete kit for landing your first remote USD role, outreach templates, application playbook, interview scripts, salary negotiation, payments, AND the AI prompts for tailored cover letters, proposals, and interview prep.
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⚡
Book + 3 Templates
The AI Income Engine
An 8-step system from picking a niche to your first online sale, with AI at every step. The book plus three working templates: the Question Bank, the Profit Flywheel Dashboard, and the Quality-Control Conveyor.
Get the Engine, $27 →
🌍
Book + 3 Templates
The Global South Income Engine
An 8-step system to build online revenue that fits your market: fit-first model choice, low-cost demand proof, a WhatsApp funnel, local pricing, and payment protection. The book plus three working templates.
Get the Engine, $27 →
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