THE SYSTEM — NOT A SEVENTH BOOK
All six,
in one file
that remembers.
The volumes answer one email at a time. The System knows this is the third one from the same client — and says so.
FIG. 01 — START TO FINISH
Their email in.
Your reply out.
Paste what the client sent. It works out which volume you are in, lays the approaches side by side, and the draft is already written.
WHAT A SINGLE VOLUME CANNOT DO
One email is
an event.
A volume is very good at the email in front of you. It cannot know that you sent a nearly identical one to this client in March, and again in May. Nobody remembers that. It just feels like bad luck.
Answers this email, well. Then forgets it happened.
ONEEVENT $16–25
Answers this email, records it against the client, and tells you when the pattern has become a trajectory.
THETRAJECTORY $79
THE ROUTER — SIX QUESTIONS
Start with
what happened.
You do not have to know which volume you need. Answer the questions in order and the first yes decides it — then it opens to the situation that matches.
Is the point of writing this — for you — to end the working relationship? Being told it's over, telling them it's over, or settling the terms of an ending.
→ BreakupIs a specific, already-agreed-upon amount not being paid, or being delayed?
→ Getting PaidIs the client asking for more work or deliverables beyond what you agreed to — expecting it for free?
→ Scope CreepIs the client trying to lower a price you already quoted, or swap it for something non-monetary?
→ LowballIs the reason you're writing this that they've gone silent — no response at all, and that silence itself is the problem?
→ GhostedAre they reacting emotionally, in a way that doesn't reduce to money, scope, silence, or price?
→ Difficult ClientThe order is not arbitrary. Real emails mix two or three of these at once, so the ladder resolves them by what costs most to get wrong — money over everything, ending the relationship over all of it.
NEW CLIENT SETUP — SIX THINGS TO SETTLE
The cheapest email
is the early one.
Most of what goes wrong later was decided by silence at the start. The System walks you through six things to settle before the work does — each one a single email, each one linked to the draft that sends it.
Rate
Put a basis under the price
Before the quote goes out
Scope
Turn the kickoff call into a document
Right after the kickoff call
Payment
Take a deposit, and give "late" a meaning
Before any work starts
Response times
Give "slow" a number
At kickoff, while goodwill is at its peak
Communication
Agree how feedback will arrive
Before the first review round
The exit
Write the ending while you still like each other
While nobody is upset
CLIENT HISTORY — ACROSS ALL SIX
The third time
is not bad luck.
Every draft you use gets recorded against the client you used it for — one history, shared by all six volumes. So when the same name turns up under Scope Creep in March and Getting Paid in June, the System is the thing that notices.
Not per volume. What you sent about scope in March sits next to what you sent about payment in June.
SHAREDACROSS 6
When the same problem returns, the softer draft has already been tried. The System says so instead of letting you repeat it.
PATTERN→ TRAJECTORY
The history lives in the file's own storage, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to.
NOACCOUNT
ALL SIX VOLUMES, INSIDE THE FILE
158 situations.
364 drafts.
Not links to six files. One file, with all six built in — which is what lets them share a history in the first place.
Late, partial, and silent — with the escalation ladder.
22 SIT49 DRAFTS$18 Scope Creep
The "just one small thing" that became three weeks.
40 SIT98 DRAFTS$25 Ghosted
Silence at every stage it can happen.
23 SIT46 DRAFTS$18 Difficult Client
Blame the record doesn't support — including when the mistake was yours.
25 SIT50 DRAFTS$18 Lowball
Budget-first asks and the discount that was supposed to be one time.
29 SIT83 DRAFTS$22 Breakup
Ending it without burning the reference.
19 SIT38 DRAFTS$16
PRICE
Six volumes: $117.
The System: $79.
Buying four of the six already costs more than the System — and four separate files cannot share a client history.
BEFORE YOU BUY
Straight
answers.
Is this six files or one?
One. All six volumes are built into a single HTML file — that is what lets them share one history per client. Buying the volumes separately gives you six files that cannot see each other.
Where does the client history live?
In the file's own storage, inside your browser, on your machine. There is no account and no server, so there is nowhere for it to go. Keep a copy of the file and the history stays with it.
Does it need the internet?
No. Open the file and everything works. Only the web fonts load from outside, so offline it falls back to your system typeface — nothing else changes.
Does an AI write the emails?
No. All 364 drafts are written in advance. If your browser has on-device AI, it can help work out which situation you are in — but the drafts are the same either way, and everything works without it.
I already bought one volume. Can I upgrade?
Yes. Email hello@useclearbound.com from the address you bought with, and that volume's price comes off the System. One volume's worth, once — so a $18 volume makes the System $61.
What if I only ever hit one kind of problem?
Then buy that volume. The System earns its price when problems come from more than one direction, or from the same client more than once.
ONE FILE — ALL SIX
Stop starting
from zero.
158 situations, 364 drafts, and one memory that spans all six. Opens in any browser and stays yours.