Free framework. Paid workbooks. The full policy in writing.

Workbook sales are the channel's only commercial channel.

Five per-use-case practitioner workbooks at $5–$8 each, plus a Year-One Compendium at $25–$35. Paperback distribution runs through Amazon KDP; digital PDF distribution runs through LemonSqueezy. No other commercial channel exists, and no other is planned.

The workbooks are the curated, bound, writeable application of the framework to a named situation. The framework itself remains free. Buyers pay for the curation, the worked examples, and the artefact — not for access to the concepts.

The categories below are refused as a matter of policy, not negotiation.

The split-license model exists precisely because the alternatives below would distort the framework. Each refusal is structural.

• Sponsorship — sponsored videos, sponsored series, sponsored segments, native integration, newsletter or community sponsorship. Sponsorship creates vendor dependence and erodes editorial independence.
• Certification programmes — no Certified Operator, no Authorised Practitioner, no badge tier. Certification creates gatekeeping inside a framework designed to spread without permission.
• Paid coaching — no 1:1 coaching, no group coaching, no office hours sold by the seat. Paid coaching creates parasocial debt and undermines the framework's claim to work on the practitioner's own materials.
• Paid community, paid cohorts, paid forum tiers — Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 remain free; no premium thread, no insider channel, no VIP layer.
• Enterprise upsell — no corporate licence pricing tied to seat count beyond standard bulk-buy of workbooks at list price, no enterprise edition, no consulting wrapped as licensing.
• AI-vendor relationships — no money, no API credits, no review units, no early-access seats, no advisory positions, in cash or in kind, from any AI provider or research lab.
• Affiliate programmes — no referral codes, no revenue-share schemes, no tracked URLs in any artefact the channel publishes.
• Recruiter platform — the practitioner identity layer is not sold to recruiters and the public directory is not a hiring board.
• Advisory revenue — no board seats, no advisor shares, no retainers paid by companies the framework might cite.
• Speaking fees — keynotes, conference fees, and honoraria are refused. Editorial conversations on open terms are accepted unpaid as time allows.

25 axioms, 6 patterns, 10 deletion surfaces, 42-term lexicon — open under CC BY 4.0.

The framework concepts are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Cite "The Last Manual Worker" (manwo.org) as the source. Commercial use of the framework concepts is permitted with attribution — consultancies may teach the framework, textbooks may quote it, corporate training programmes may embed it. The framework's value is network-effect-driven. Restricting concept use would slow the adoption the channel depends on.

Chapter prose, worked examples, transition essays, illustrations, brand mark — All Rights Reserved.

The workbook prose, the curated chapter ordering, the worked examples, the transition essays, the foreword and afterword, the Man Wo character, the illustrations, the channel name, and the print typography are copyright © Lubor Fedak, All Rights Reserved. Owners of a purchased workbook may quote it under fair use; they may not redistribute, photocopy at scale, or include the content in derivative paid products. This is the standard book-publishing contract, applied honestly.

Single workbooks under $10. Compendium $25–$35. Both inside the cost-ceiling.

Per-use-case workbook pricing stays between $5 and $8. The Year-One Compendium is priced between $25 and $35 depending on edition (paperback, hardback, digital). Both sit within the §11.22 cost-ceiling discipline that applies to every recommendation the channel makes — practitioners should not be asked to spend more than €0–€20 per user per month on the total agentic stack, and workbooks are counted inside that ceiling.

What you see is what you pay.

There is no tiered access, no premium upsell, no exclusive edition for first buyers, no founders-only club, no early-access fee for the next workbook, no paid waitlist. The list price is the only price. Bundle discounts, when offered on direct checkout, are announced openly and apply to everyone who meets the bundle condition.

14 days no questions asked on digital. Paperback per platform policy.

Digital PDF purchases through LemonSqueezy and direct checkout are refundable within 14 days with no questions asked. Paperback refunds follow the policies of the distribution platform on which the copy was bought. The channel does not run a separate appeal process and does not retain payment data beyond what the payment processor requires.