Prompts that earn their keep
Not clever one liners. The ones I lean on for client delivery, with the setup around them that makes them behave.
Selling expertise profitably
A club for solo and very small professional service firms. Consultants, agencies, studios, dev shops, recruiters, fractional operators.
The people are the point. A group of owners working on the same problem you are, and everything I build to run my own business alongside it.
Join Solo Club
$190 a year, or $19 month to month. Early pricing, going up January 1, 2027.
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Owners who get it
People selling expertise for a living, working on the same problems you are.
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Somewhere to ask
Before you spend a day on something a member here has already sorted out.
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And everything I build
The pricing work, the templates and the AI workflows I use, written up for you.
The club itself
There is no course, no coaching program and no homework. It is a group of owners who sell expertise for a living, and somewhere to talk to them.
The people
Owners of small professional service firms, selling expertise the same way you do. They understand the clients, the pricing and the week, because they are in it too.
Somewhere to ask
Put the question to the group before you spend a day working out something another member already worked out.
A live call
Bring whatever you are in the middle of. Questions get collected beforehand so the time goes to your business.
Meetups
In person, whenever there is one near you. A bonus for people nearby, never a filter on who belongs.
No noise
No ads, no pitches, no feed deciding what you see. Just the work and the people doing it.
And you get everything I build
I run my consulting business on my own, and whatever I build to do that gets written up for you to take.
Small automations
The dull jobs that eat your week, handed off to something that does not get bored.
Ways of working
How I get a usable draft, get a second opinion, and stop AI writing from sounding like AI writing.
All of it in plain English, start to finish. Nothing here needs a terminal or a developer, and if a workflow of mine only exists as a script, I rewrite it for the app or leave it out.
Why I run this
I have spent more than twenty years building expertise-led firms, and I run my own consulting business now. Selling expertise profitably is the thing I know best, and it is what this club is about.
Everything in here has already earned its keep in a paying engagement before you see it. My own business, and the firms I work with every day.
You will find me in here, answering questions and running the call. That is the whole thing.
Kurt Schmidt
Schmidt Consulting Group
Who it is for
- You own a small firm that sells expertise. Solo, or a handful of people.
- Consulting, an agency, a studio, a dev shop, recruiting, fractional work. The label matters less than this: people pay you for what you know.
- You are still close to the work, not two layers away from it.
- You want the pricing and the AI parts working in your business, not explained to you.
- You would rather ask someone who has already done it than work it out alone.
Early pricing
This is the early rate and it goes up on January 1, 2027. Take the year now and you are covered for twelve months from the day you join, which carries you past the increase.
Membership
$190a year
Or $19 a month, at the early rate until January 2027.
Join Solo ClubThe day you join
- The conversations you are not in yet. Pricing, clients, tools, and the things owners only say to other owners.
- Everything already in there, open to you immediately. Systems, templates and workflows, yours to take and use this week.
- A seat on the live call, where owners bring what they are working on and we sort it out together.
- Everything I build from here, as I build it. You see it when the ink is still wet.
- First word when a meetup lands near you.
Cancel anytime, in a couple of clicks. No contract and no notice period.
Questions
A paid club about selling expertise profitably, for owners of solo and very small professional service firms. It runs on Circle, in your browser or the Circle app. You get a room of people running the same kind of business, plus the pricing work, templates and AI workflows I use to run mine.
As much or as little as you want. Some people are in most days, others drop in when they need something and leave with one thing they can use. It is meant to fit around client work, not compete with it.
No. There is no curriculum, no modules and no homework. It is a working room with the things I build in it. If you would rather be taught in a structured way, a course will serve you better than this will.
No. Everything is written in plain English for the apps you already have, mostly Claude and ChatGPT in the desktop app. If a workflow of mine only exists as a script, it gets rewritten for the app or it does not get published.
Yes, on January 1, 2027. Monthly members pay the early rate of $19 until then. If you take the year instead, your twelve months run from the day you join, so you stay at the early rate past the increase. That is the case for joining now rather than later.
Yes, in a couple of clicks, and you keep access until the date you already paid for. No contract, no notice period, and no email exchange to get out.
You are in the same day. You get everything already written up, the date of the next live call, and a place to introduce yourself to the room.
Mostly no. Most of them run on a Claude or ChatGPT subscription you probably already pay for, plus the occasional free tool. Where something costs money, it says so up front.
A mastermind is usually facilitated group time on a schedule. Solo Club is an ongoing room of owners talking to each other and to me, with the systems I build alongside it. If you want private one to one time, that is coaching and it is a separate thing.