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Closing the AI Wage Gap

A Practical Operating System for Building Multi-Stream Income in the Age of Automation

By Yuri Kruman — 3x CHRO, AI strategist, executive coach to 2,300+ leaders

The Reality

AI-skilled workers earn 56% more than their peers in the same roles. The gap is widening every quarter. This book is the operating system for getting on the right side of it.

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What's Inside

5 parts. 16 chapters. A complete operating system you can implement while still employed — no coding required.

I

The New Wage Game

See + Measure

Ch 1 — The Day the Ladder Snapped

Ch 2 — The AI Wage Gap by the Numbers

Ch 3 — How AI Actually Changes Work: Tasks, Tacit Knowledge, and Power

Ch 4 — Calculate Your Personal AI Wage Gap Score

Understand the gap. Quantify where you stand. Feel the urgency in the data, not the hype.

II

Design Your AI Portfolio OS

Design

Ch 5 — From Job Title to Task Stack: Mapping Where AI Hits You

Ch 6 — Building Your AI Skills Edge (Without Becoming a Developer)

Ch 7 — Nodes, Not Ladders: Network Density as an Income Engine

Ch 8 — Choosing Your First Portfolio Streams

Architect the portfolio: skills, income streams, and network nodes that compound over time.

III

Execute While You're Still Employed

Execute

Ch 9 — The First Stream: From Free Work to Paid Work

Ch 10 — Negotiating Hybrid, Scope, and IP to Make Space

Ch 11 — Legal Guardrails: Non-Competes, Conflicts, and Clean Structures

Ch 12 — Systems and Automation: Let AI Run the Boring Stuff

Build your first income stream without quitting your job. Legal, practical, step by step.

IV

Mid-Career Pivots in an AI, Hybrid, Ageist World

Execute + Sustain

Ch 13 — When to Jump (and When Not To)

Ch 14 — The Age + AI Double Bind

Ch 15 — Burnout, Family, and Identity in a Portfolio Life

Navigate the hardest decisions: timing, ageism, relationships, and who you become in the process.

V

Money and Long-Term Risk

Sustain

Ch 16 — Money OS for a Portfolio Career

Ch 17 — Closing the Gap: Metrics, Milestones, and the Next Decade

The financial architecture and tracking system that keeps your portfolio career sustainable for decades.

Who This Book Is For

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Mid-Career Executives

35-55, $100K+, feeling the ground shift under your feet

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Consultants & Coaches

Unclear how to monetize AI beyond "prompting"

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Career Changers

Ready to stop competing on labor and start building leverage

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By the author of the Forbes Top 21 / USA TODAY Top 20 "Be Your Own Commander in Chief"

3x CHRO· 2,300+ Executives Coached· Top 5 Global HR Thought Leader