Update from Saturday: Amazon terminated my KDP account. Not for this book — an unrelated nostalgia title I had on KDP tripped their AI-content review. Lifetime ban, royalties forfeit, no reopening. The Amazon link in my last post above is dead. The book itself is fine. Just not on Amazon. Pivoted to direct sales on Payhip today. ~45 min to get there. PDF + EPUB bundle, DRM-free, EU VAT handled by the platform. ~90% margin vs Amazon's ~30% — which honestly works out better long-term. For this community — code SKOOL, 25% off, expires Sunday 11 May: https://payhip.com/b/VpTj3?coupon=SKOOL → €18 Free Chapter 9 (the same PDF I was DM'ing on request — now self-serve): https://payhip.com/b/9TWtN @Gareth Parkes — thank you for the KU offer. Book's no longer on KU but if you still want to read and review, DM me and I'll send a copy directly. @Ellie Davis — thank you. With Amazon gone, reader feedback (Goodreads, LinkedIn, even a sentence in this thread) is the social proof doing the heavy lifting now. ▎ Also live on the same store: The Claude Playbook — the hands-on guide to ▎ Claude from first prompt to production code. €19, same SKOOL code → ▎ €14.25. Built from the curriculum many of you already know. ▎ https://payhip.com/b/Dk3OB?coupon=SKOOL

▎ EDIT (4 May): Amazon terminated my KDP account on Saturday. Book is now at https://payhip.com/b/VpTj3 — see [this post](link to your new update) for the story. I shipped a 305-page book this week. "Rewiring Corporate Finance", a blueprint for what the finance function becomes when AI moves from pilot to load-bearing. 12 chapters, 9 custom diagrams, EU AI Act compliance map and a 12-month execution plan for CFOs When I say I used Claude, people assume it wrote the book. It didn’t. I have over 15 years inside finance at Philips and Vodafone.The seat and the judgment are mine. What Claude actually did was this: 1. Pressure-tested the thinking: Every chapter had a thesis. I made Claude argue against it before I wrote.Some ideas held. Others didn’t. 2. Cut the corporate voice: Anything that sounded like a consulting deck got flagged.The writing is tighter because of that. 3. Handled the messy production layer: Cover math. Spine width. EPUB. KDP formatting. Claude wrote the Python to turn the draft into something uploadable.That’s where most people get stuck. 4. Turned ideas into diagrams : I described the systems. It generated clean visuals I could actually use. What it didn’t do: The experience.The opinions.The calls on what goes agent-first vs stays human. If you’ve ever thought about writing a book: This is way more doable now than it was even a year ago. If you want, I can break down exactly how I went from idea to published. Just DM me. And if you’re building AI skills on top of your current finance role: Comment on this post and I’ll send you the PDF of Chapter 9. It covers: - the four literacies (finance, data, AI, programming) - the hybrid finance-developer profile - why the junior pipeline is going to change