The Northern Office · Books
Quietly Ahead
A plain English guide to spotting AI scams and putting AI to work on medical bills, taxes, and family after 50.
“The scams got smarter. So can you.”
By Alex Setzler · Published by The Northern Office
Where to pre-order
The ebook is open for pre-order on Kindle, Apple Books, and Kobo today. Pre-order once and it lands on your device the morning of October 6. Print follows on release day.
Coming next: Google Play, Barnes & Noble (Nook), and public libraries through OverDrive and Libby. The large print edition is built for this book’s readers and ships alongside the others.
The free Starter Kit
Everything in the book has a companion kit that lives here, where it can stay current. Apps change their buttons every few months. The kit changes with them.
Every door into the tool, phone, tablet, or laptop, with real screenshots, kept current the week a button moves.
The whole toolkit on one printable page, built to tape inside a kitchen cabinet.
A short note every week or two: a new scam making the rounds, and a new way to put the tool to work.
That’s the whole cost. No payment, nothing sold, and one click unsubscribes you any time. If it’s useful, you stay. If it’s not, you leave. You’ll also be the first to know the day the book goes live.
Inside the book
Defense first, honestly and without the scare tactics. Then the same technology, pointed back at your actual life.
The cloned voice on the phone at dinnertime, and the safe word that beats it.
The perfect email from a bank that never sent it, spotted in fifteen seconds.
The medical bill that says denied, translated, appealed, and reversed.
The October pile Medicare mail, the RMD letter, the tax checkup, handled at one kitchen table.
The good stuff the toast, the shoebox of photos, the trip you keep putting off.
Who it’s for
- Anyone fifty or better who is careful, not behind
- The family member everyone calls first about technology
- Adult kids buying a straight answer for a parent
- Readers who want the scams pointed away and the tool pointed at real life
You’re not behind. You never were. This book takes the caution you already have and puts a sharper edge on it, so the machine works for you, on your terms, guard up, eyes open.