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name: first-client-playbook description: Use when playbook for using Claude AI to start a one-person business and sign the first client, based on Patrick Dang's masterclass on going from zero to first paid deal.

First-Client-in-7-Days Playbook

Patrick Dang's 'How I'd Start a 1-Person Business With Claude AI & Sign My First Client' walks the exact path from picking a service to landing paying work. The skill packages his framework: pick a service where Claude gives you leverage, define an ideal client and offer, use Claude to research prospects and draft outreach, run a lightweight discovery process, and close on a scoped first deliverable. Focused on Claude as the operating tool through every step.

What you get

• Service selection framework (where Claude gives leverage vs where it doesn't)
• ideal-client-plus-offer template
• Claude-drafted prospect research and outreach messages
• discovery script and qualification questions
• scoped first-deliverable proposal template

Customize your output

• Service type: content, ads, ops, design, consulting, other
• Ideal client: industry, size, pain
• Outreach channel: email, LinkedIn, DM
• First-deliverable scope: hours or fixed price

Example output

For a solo ops consultant, the skill defines the offer as 'ops-audit + one automation for $1,500,' drafts a LinkedIn message to twenty target ops leaders, and returns a discovery-call script tuned to that scope.

Best for

Solo operators and first-time freelancers using Claude to break into paid client work

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Source: Patrick Dang · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0OfWNbTaK0 Category: Sales / Solo Business · Priority: Standard