The Foundation · Six Field Guides # You've been running both axes the whole time. Now you have names for them. > The business axis and the personal axis. All six Field Guides as one collection. Twelve files. $27. The work that keeps the business running. The quiet thread that keeps you in it. Most operators feel both pulling at once and never separate the two into something they can tend. The framework, the stack, the timing. The question, the making, the capture. Every layer of using AI as a sovereign craft. Forty-two chapters across the six. Forty-two Moves you install over time. Designed as the whole foundation for the operator who wants both how the work runs and who's running it. Twelve files. The complete Field Guide shelf. One foundation that holds the whole practice. [Get the Collection · $27](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/foundation-bundle) (a button on the page) Who this is for The two smaller collections each hold one axis. This holds the whole practice for the operator who wants both. Start where the pull is: the business axis opens with AI for the Business You Actually Want, the personal axis with Whose Game Are You Playing with AI? Save $25 vs $52 à la carte. The Practitioner I'm Lane Belone, a writer on the Infinite Game, a former Green Beret and co-author of _Unleash Your Humble Alpha_. Six Field Guides came out of the same few years of working with AI as a sovereign craft. Three about the business. Three about the person building it. The business axis surfaced first. Voice flattening, stack inflation, automating too soon. Then the personal axis surfaced underneath it. Whose game am I playing, how do I keep my voice mine, how do I stay present when the ideas keep arriving. Six layers. The framework, the stack, the timing on the business side. The question, the making, the capture on the personal side. Each one its own Field Guide. Each one its own seven-Move practice. The Foundation is for the operator who wants all of it. Both axes. The whole architecture as one library. Both axes, installed at once. That's what choosing the whole practice looks like. The Two Axes ## Six Field Guides. Two complete collections. The Business Axis [![AI for the Business You Actually Want cover](https://www.sidequesthq.co/covers/ai-for-the-business-you-actually-want/cover-print.webp)](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/ai-for-the-business-you-actually-want)[![Stack Calm cover](https://www.sidequesthq.co/covers/stack-calm/cover-print.webp)](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/stack-calm)[![Earn the Right to Automate cover](https://www.sidequesthq.co/covers/earn-the-right-to-automate/cover-print.webp)](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/earn-the-right-to-automate) The Personal Axis [![Whose Game Are You Playing with AI? cover](https://www.sidequesthq.co/covers/whose-game-are-you-playing-with-ai/cover-print.webp)](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/whose-game-are-you-playing-with-ai)[![Yours to Make cover](https://www.sidequesthq.co/covers/yours-to-make/cover-print.webp)](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/yours-to-make)[![Sovereign Capture cover](https://www.sidequesthq.co/covers/sovereign-capture/cover-print.webp)](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/sovereign-capture) The Business Axis B1\. AI for the Business You Actually Want · _the framework_ Whose voice, whose terms, whose business. Voice as the moat. The manifesto practice. The framework that lives before the tool. [See the Field Guide](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/ai-for-the-business-you-actually-want) B2\. Stack Calm · _the stack_ Your minimum viable AI setup. The aliveness filter applied to tools. The new-tool test. The cancel list as audit ritual. [See the Field Guide](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/stack-calm) B3\. Earn the Right to Automate · _the timing_ The discipline before the automation. Twenty manual reps. Four validation conditions. The five-question decision tree. [See the Field Guide](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/earn-the-right-to-automate) The Personal Axis P1\. Whose Game Are You Playing with AI? · _the question_ AI as mirror, not engine. The mirror prompt. Conditioned identity versus the authentic one. The question that lives before the tool. [See the Field Guide](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/whose-game-are-you-playing-with-ai) P2\. Yours to Make · _the making_ Voice patterning through contrast. The taste profile session. The voice anchor every creative session points back to. [See the Field Guide](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/yours-to-make) P3\. Sovereign Capture · _the capture_ Presence as the practice. The five-step capture flow. The container that remembers so you can stay present. [See the Field Guide](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/sovereign-capture) The felt difference with both axes installed. You're paid to be yourself and your voice stays yours. Your stack is calm and your ideas land in a container you trust. Your automations compound and you stay present. Both axes holding at once. From inside the Collection ## One Move from AI for the Business You Actually Want From Chapter 5, Slow Is Smooth. Smooth Is Fast. A map of what in your business belongs to the year, the quarter, the week and the day. Here it is as it ships. ### The Move **What you're installing:** The Pace-Layer Map. **The reason:** Knowing which work lives at which cadence is the difference between a business that compounds and a business that thrashes. The map is the structural check. Once it exists, you can see at a glance when something's miscalibrated. The AI gets pointed at the correct layer instead of accelerating whichever one's loudest. **Install this week:** Open your thinking partner. Paste or dictate the following: Help me build my pace-layer map. Four cadences: Yearly, Quarterly, Weekly, Daily. For each cadence, ask me what lives there in my business right now. Capture each row in our conversation. Then ask me what's currently miscalibrated. Items at the wrong cadence. Vision items being re-litigated weekly. Quarterly questions being re-asked daily. Weekly practice work being skipped because daily is too loud. Format the map as a clean four-row block I can save. Name the artifact: Pace-Layer Map. [My Name]. [Date]. Work the conversation until all four rows are populated and the miscalibrations are named. Static-doc alternate: open a one-page document titled _Pace-Layer Map. \[Your Name\]. \[Date\]_ and write the four rows by hand. Same format. The AI-organized version makes re-mapping easier each quarter. Re-read the map when you sit down to work. Ask: _Which layer am I about to operate on. Is the AI getting pointed at the right layer._ That two-question check before any meaningful work session is the entire return. **The expansion:** A few weeks in, you'll notice the daily noise stops colonizing slower work because you can see the layer it belongs to. Your vision stays stable for the year. Your manifesto holds for the quarter. Your weekly rhythm tightens. Daily execution speeds up because the layers underneath are smooth. Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. Quoted word for word from the markdown edition that ships with the purchase. ![The Foundation Collection - what you receive: every file in the collection](https://www.sidequesthq.co/covers/foundation-bundle/bundle-1x1.webp) What You're Getting ## Twelve files. Six PDFs. Six AI-Ready Markdowns with Companion Guide. All six Field Guides as designed reading experiences and as AI-native working tools. Drop the markdowns into Claude or ChatGPT individually or together. AI for the Business You Actually Want · PDF + AI-Ready Markdown Stack Calm · PDF + AI-Ready Markdown Earn the Right to Automate · PDF + AI-Ready Markdown Whose Game Are You Playing with AI? · PDF + AI-Ready Markdown Yours to Make · PDF + AI-Ready Markdown Sovereign Capture · PDF + AI-Ready Markdown Each markdown ships with the Companion Guide section at the top. The Moves index, the protocols specific to that Field Guide's practice. The Field Guide content below gives your AI the installed context for every conversation. $27 $52 Save $25 All six Field Guides as one collection. Twelve files. Both axes. The complete Field Guide shelf as one foundation. The framework, the stack, the timing. The question, the making, the capture. The whole practice as one installed library. The Move is the point. The reading is the on-ramp. If this is your kind of thing, you'll know. [Get the Collection · $27](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/foundation-bundle) (a button on the page) ## Common Questions **What's the difference between this and the two smaller collections?** The Foundation Collection is all six Field Guides across both axes. The business axis (the framework, the stack, the timing) and the personal axis (the question, the making, the capture). The two smaller collections each hold one axis. The Foundation holds the whole practice for the operator who wants both. **Where do I start with six Field Guides?** Start where the pull is. If you came for the business, open AI for the Business You Actually Want first. If you came for the personal practice, open Whose Game Are You Playing with AI? first. Each axis is a complete trilogy on its own. You do not read all six at once. You read the one that's alive for you now. **What's in the collection?** Twelve files. Six Field Guide PDFs (the designed reading experiences). Six AI-Ready Markdown files (one per Field Guide, each with the Companion Guide section embedded at the top). Drop them into Claude or ChatGPT individually or together. **Do I need to be technical?** No. Every Move across all six Field Guides is copy-paste. Custom instructions for your AI, calendar blocks, one-page templates, contrast prompts, capture flows. The collection assumes you can already use Claude or ChatGPT well enough and you want the practice that lives underneath the tool. **Who wrote this?** Lane Belone, a writer on the Infinite Game, former Green Beret and co-author of Unleash Your Humble Alpha. Built all six Field Guides from inside the actual texture each one names, across both how the work runs and who's running it. The Individual Collections [The Business Collection](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/business-bundle) · the business axis, three Field Guides. [The Personal Collection](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products/personal-bundle) · the personal axis, three Field Guides. [See all products](https://www.sidequesthq.co/products) · [About Lane](https://www.sidequesthq.co/about) Side Quest HQ, the Infinite Game practice of [Lane Belone](https://www.lanebelone.com)