Module 0 · Start here
How to use the system in 15-20 minutes an evening. The self-assessment, the paper scorecard with 15 items, and the three paths A, B and C.
The next reorg will decide who runs AI and who gets cut. Be the one who runs it.
The 90-day plan for professionals over 45. No coding: 15-20 minutes an evening, from tonight. Follow it, and by day 90 you use AI on your own tasks, with a memo to prove it.
Start my 90-day planLaunch price $37 for the System until 14 November 2026, 23:59 Rome time (5:59 pm New York). From the day after: $47. This is the only launch window. It will not be repeated.
- 2,500+ readers since 2025 (1st edition)
- Written with HR professionals
- 30-day refund, no questions asked
October 2026 edition · the Career Firewall team · every statistic has a dated source: WEF, ILO, Stanford, Microsoft Research
Illustrative scenario: a Monday
Monday morning. A new invite in your calendar: 'Team reorganization. Fifteen minutes.'
No agenda. No note. You read it twice.
In the meeting room, silence. One sentence: 'Part of our work now goes to AI.'
Then the question you hoped to avoid: 'And you? How do you use AI in your work?'
You look for an example. You do not have one. You kept saying 'later'.
Your project goes to the younger colleague. The one who 'knows AI'.
Later is the trap. Plans like this are being made now, long before the invite.
41% of employers plan to cut staff by 2030 where AI can automate tasks (WEF, Jan 2025). Find out which of your tasks are exposed, before your employer does.
This is already happening. The 2025-2026 data, with sources.
- 41% of employers plan to cut staff by 2030 where AI can automate tasks.(World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report, January 2025)
- About 4,000 support jobs cut at Salesforce. In February 2026 it said it no longer needs to refill support engineer roles.(TechCrunch running list, 2026)
- Only 10 to 12% of US workers over 50 have had AI training at work. 47% want it.(AARP, 2025 and 2026)
- Experience holds. In the US, in the jobs most exposed to AI, employment of 22-25-year-olds fell 16% compared with less-exposed jobs. Experienced workers stayed stable.(Stanford Digital Economy Lab, November 2025)
Waiting feels safe. It is not. While you wait, someone else on your team becomes 'the person who knows AI'. When the reorg comes, who do you think leads the change? 32% of organisations expect AI-related staff cuts next year (Stanford AI Index 2026). For workers 55+, the risk is an early exit. In the jobs most exposed to AI, they became up to 25% more likely to leave the workforce after ChatGPT arrived (Boston College research, via AARP, July 2026).
Here is the good news. You do not need to learn to code. You need to show, before the next reorg, that you already use AI on your own tasks. That takes 15-20 minutes an evening, for 90 days. It starts tonight, with a 10-minute score.
How it works: 3 steps, starting tonight
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Score (10 minutes, free)
Take the free AI Exposure Score. It shows which of your tasks are exposed and which hold. It gives you a path: A strengthen the role, B redesign it, C prepare a move. Already took it? Then step 1 is done. Take the free score first
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First wins (week 1)
Do one real task with AI in 20 minutes, before and after. Clean the age clues (graduation year, '25 years of experience') out of your CV and LinkedIn: hiring software may use them to screen out older candidates (AARP testimony to the US Senate, September 2025). Write the AI value memo for your boss: one page that shows a task you already do better with AI.
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90-day plan (15-20 minutes an evening)
Twelve weekly milestones, one page each, with a checkpoint you can verify. Prompts (ready-made instructions you paste into ChatGPT or Copilot), templates and checklists are ready to use. Follow it, and by day 90 you run AI on your own tasks, with the proof on paper.
12 weeks, one page a week, 15-20 minutes an evening
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Weeks 1-4
Assessment and foundation
- Exposure assessment
- Basic AI tool proficiency
- Career evolution map
- Learning system
Score, task map, one tool, one direction, a learning schedule
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Weeks 5-8
Skill development and AI integration
- First AI workflow integration
- Priority skill progress
- Repositioning strategy
- Expanded AI integration
One workflow, one skill, one narrative, a second workflow
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Weeks 9-12
Implementation and positioning
- Completed project portfolio
- Updated professional presence
- Expanded professional network
- Long-term career resilience strategy
Case study, profile, conversations, strategy
Days 85-90
Final checkpoint
Score again, compare, decide the next twelve months
Everything inside the October 2026 edition
- 32,664 words
- 10 modules + 2 bonus
- 50 prompts
- 5 checklists
+ 90-day workbook
Module 1 · What is actually happening (2026)
Only 2025-2026 data, each with a dated source: WEF, ILO, Stanford, Microsoft Research, Anthropic. Real cases from 2026. The five misconceptions, rewritten.
Module 3 · The experience advantage (45-60)
Why experienced workers hold, and where they fall: slow re-employment, undocumented know-how, exclusion from AI roles. How to document what you know and become the person who checks the AI's work.
Module 4 · Your first 7 days
Day 1: your score, your exposed tasks and the ones that hold. Days 1-2: one real task with AI, before and after. Days 3-4: CV and LinkedIn without age clues. Days 5-7: the AI value memo for your boss.
Module 6 · The 90-day plan
Twelve milestones, one page a week, with checkpoints and criteria. In the System edition, delivered as a fillable workbook, a printable workbook and a DOCX that opens in Word or Google Docs.
Module 8 · Jobs that hold, jobs that change
Exposure tables by profession from Microsoft 2025 and ILO 2025. Low-exposure occupations and roles that check the AI's work. A 15-point checklist (5+5+5). Three ways people and AI share a job: oversight, partnership, augmentation.
Formats and requirements
PDF (A4 and US Letter) and EPUB (for e-readers), readable on phone, tablet, computer and e-reader. Workbook as fillable PDF, printable PDF and DOCX (Word). Prompt library as PDF and spreadsheet. Download links arrive by email within minutes of payment, and are repeated on the order page. Files may carry your name and email as a watermark (a light line of text on each page). You need a PDF reader, a web browser and a free account on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
Made for professionals over 45 who will not learn to code
- You have 20 years of work or more behind you, in an office, a clinic, a school, a bank or a workshop.
- Your company has announced AI pilots, 'digital transformation' or a reorganisation.
- You use email and a phone every day, but you have never opened ChatGPT, or only once.
- You want to start privately, in the evening, and choose yourself when to show results at work.
- You want to protect the experience you already have, not start over.
- Between jobs? Modules 3, 4 and 6 work with the tasks of your last role; the weeks that need a workplace have to be adapted.
Not for you if
- You want a job guarantee. Nobody honest can sell that.
- You want to become a developer or a data scientist.
- You are looking for a side-income scheme. The bonus on second income is short and makes no revenue promises.
- You expect a forum or live calls. This is a self-paced system with email support.
Choose your edition and start tonight
One payment, no subscription. Download in minutes. Updates included until 31 October 2027. 30-day refund on every edition, no reason needed.
- A human career coach costs $56 to $299 per session (IGotAnOffer, 2025).
- Google's AI Essentials course costs $49 for about 9 hours of video (Class Central, 2026).
System + Coach AI
The System, plus 12 months of the Career Firewall Coach app when it launches (planned Q1 2027)
$97 one payment
30 days to change your mind: full refund on every edition and on the maps, no reason needed. The files stay yours.
- Everything in the System, plus:
- Career Firewall Coach app: 12 months included from public launch (planned Q1 2027), then founder price 9 USD per month (charged in US dollars), no automatic renewal. If the app is not live by 30 June 2027: automatic fixed refund for the app in the currency of your order: 50 USD, 45 EUR, 64 CAD, 70 AUD, 74 NZD, 120 BRL or 450 MXN
- Founding member certificate (PDF) and priority beta access at least 30 days before launch
System
$37 one payment
30 days to change your mind: full refund on every edition and on the maps, no reason needed. The files stay yours.
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Launch price $37 for the System until 14 November 2026, 23:59 Rome time (5:59 pm New York). From the day after: $47. This is the only launch window. It will not be repeated.
The guide plus the tools to do the work: workbook, prompts, templates and checklists
- Career Firewall guide, October 2026 edition: PDF (A4 and Letter) + EPUB, 10 modules + 2 bonus, glossary and paper scorecard
- 4 dated updates until 31 October 2027 (January, April, July, October 2027)
- 90-day workbook: fillable PDF, printable PDF and DOCX (opens in Word or Google Docs)
- 50-prompt library: PDF + filterable spreadsheet by profession and tool
- CV and LinkedIn templates for the AI era (DOCX, opens in Word or Google Docs) + the AI value memo
- 5 one-page checklists
- 90-day companion: 12 weekly milestone pages in the workbook, also as 12 weekly reminder emails if you sign up on the page linked in your order confirmation
Guide
The full guide, in PDF and EPUB
$27 one payment
30 days to change your mind: full refund on every edition and on the maps, no reason needed. The files stay yours.
- Career Firewall guide, October 2026 edition: PDF (A4 and Letter) + EPUB, 10 modules + 2 bonus, glossary and paper scorecard
- 4 dated updates until 31 October 2027 (January, April, July, October 2027)
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Add the Sector Exposure Maps · $17
12 sectors, one map each: the tasks AI already does, the tasks that stay, the skills employers ask for. With sources. Also offered on your order page. Sectors: administration, finance, customer service and sales, marketing, HR, legal, IT, education, healthcare, logistics and manufacturing, retail and hospitality, construction and trades.
You can add them in the cart, after you choose an edition.
The 30-day 'try the plan' guarantee
Start the plan tonight and try the first week. Not for you? Write to us within 30 days of your purchase, whether you used the plan or not. You do not need to give a reason. We issue the refund within 5 working days. Your bank may take up to 10 more days to show it. This applies to every edition and to the Sector Exposure Maps. The files stay yours. A refund of the System + Coach edition cancels the founding member status.
See the method before you pay
The first edition has had more than 2,500 readers since 2025 (our internal records, October 2026). You do not have to trust us on faith. Take the free AI Exposure Score and get Module 4, your first 7 days, as a free PDF. Every statistic on this page has a dated source, listed in the guide.
Questions people ask before buying
I'm 55 and not technical. Is this for me?
Yes, if you can send an email and open a web page. The guide assumes nothing else. Module 5 tells you, step by step and in plain words, where to click in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, starting from the free account. The plan takes 15 to 20 minutes an evening. Among learners aged 45 to 64, enrolments in generative-AI courses grew 150% from 2023 to 2024, and they finish more often than younger learners (Coursera, via WebProNews, April 2026). You are not late: people your age are starting now.
Isn't AI overhyped?
Parts of it are. In 2025-2026, AI agents (tools that carry out tasks on their own) were used by fewer than 1 in 10 organisations in most business functions (Stanford AI Index 2026). But 88% of organisations now use AI somewhere, and 32% expect AI-related headcount reductions next year. The guide separates the two: what is marketing, and what is already changing the tasks in roles like yours. Every claim has a dated source, so you can check it.
Is this just another PDF?
No. The Guide is a PDF and an EPUB. The System adds the tools to do the work: a 90-day workbook (fillable, printable and DOCX for Word or Google Docs), a 50-prompt library you can filter by profession, CV and LinkedIn templates, the AI value memo, 5 checklists and 12 weekly milestone pages (also as reminder emails, if you want them). The page shows the real word count and module count, counted on the final files. There are no page counts and no padding.
Will my employer know?
Not from us. The guide is yours to read at home, and the first four weeks of the plan are private. Module 5 explains how to use AI tools without pasting confidential company data into them. Later steps ask you to show a result: the AI value memo (Module 4, Day 7), and from week 8 one result to a colleague and, when you choose, to your manager. You decide the timing, and each of those steps has a private version with a person you trust outside work.
Does the price go up?
Yes, once. The System has a launch price for 30 days from the day the store opened. The exact end date and the full price are shown next to the price. From the day after, the System costs the full price shown there. There is no second launch window. The Guide and the System + Coach edition have one price, with no launch price. Every currency follows the same rule with its own list prices. Nothing is crossed out, because nothing was ever sold at a higher price.
What about the app?
The Career Firewall Coach app is in development. These are the terms, numbered, and they are the same in the founding members page, the certificate and the order confirmation. 1. Public launch is planned for the first quarter of 2027. The System + Coach edition includes 12 months of access from the public launch date. 2. At the end of the 12 months there is no automatic renewal. You choose if you want to go on. You give express consent on Stripe when you activate it. 3. The founder price of 9 USD per month (charged in US dollars) is locked for 24 months after the 12 included months, as long as the plan stays active. 4. If the app is not live by 30 June 2027, you get a fixed refund for the app, automatically, in the currency of your order: 50 USD, 45 EUR, 64 CAD, 70 AUD, 74 NZD, 120 BRL or 450 MXN. You can ask for a credit instead. On request, we refund the whole order, with no 30-day limit. 5. Priority beta access means access at least 30 days before public launch. You get a monthly email on progress. 6. A refund of the edition within 30 days cancels the founding member status.
Which languages?
A language goes live only after a native speaker signs a review. You find the live ones in the language menu at the bottom of the page. Every purchase includes all live languages. New ones reach you by email, free. Checkout and emails use the language you shop in.
Can I get an invoice?
You receive an order confirmation with the amounts paid and VAT where it applies. If you need a receipt in your name as a private person, write to support with your order number and we send it. Purchases by companies with a VAT number are not available at launch. If you are an employer buying for a team, write to us and we will tell you when that opens.
Start tonight. You have 30 days to change your mind.
Picture day 90 of the plan. One task from your job runs with AI. Your CV and LinkedIn show no age clues. A one-page memo for your boss is ready. One payment, the files stay yours, and 30 days to change your mind. Still see the launch price under the button? It ends on the date shown, and it will not come back.
Start my 90-day planLaunch price $37 for the System until 14 November 2026, 23:59 Rome time (5:59 pm New York). From the day after: $47. This is the only launch window. It will not be repeated.
P.S. Skipped to the end? Here is the short version. The System is the guide plus the 90-day workbook, 50 prompts, CV and LinkedIn templates and 5 checklists. Still see the launch price above? It ends on the date shown, and it will not come back. You start tonight, with 15-20 minutes. Every week you wait, someone else on your team learns AI first. Not for you? Ask for a refund within 30 days: the files stay yours.
The Career Firewall team, with HR professionals