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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5 parts. 16 chapters. A complete operating system you can implement while still employed — no coding required.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mid-Career Executives
35-55, $100K+, feeling the ground shift under your feet
Consultants & Coaches
Unclear how to monetize AI beyond "prompting"
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"