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Most free tools arrive as a pile. You hand over an email, a PDF lands, you save it somewhere sensible and never open it again. The pile grows. Nothing in it ever did a job.
The Ultimate Starter Kit is built the other way round. It is four working tools rather than four documents, each one made for a different bad week, and one email opens all four at once. Free, £0.00. That is the whole cost and there is no second step where it stops being free.
Here is what is behind each door, starting with the one worth the most space.
The planner that asks before it tells
Nearly every week planner opens with the same question. What are you going to do this week?
It is a fine question if your Monday self and your Thursday self hand over roughly the same amount. If they do not, that question is a trap. You answer it on a good morning, you build the week on that answer, and by Wednesday the plan has quietly turned into a list of things you have failed to do. The plan never adjusts. You do, usually by deciding all over again that the problem is you.
Sage is the capacity-first week planner in the Kit, and its own description is the mechanic: it starts every session with a check-in, then plans your week around the energy you actually have. The order is the entire tool. Ask first, plan second.
What that changes is easiest to see on an ordinary bad Tuesday. You slept badly. Ordinarily you would open the boxes you filled in on Sunday while you felt fine, then either force one of them and pay for it, or shut the laptop and lose the day to guilt instead. With a check-in at the front, the honest answer goes in at the top and the week comes back shaped around it. Smaller on the days you have not got much. Fuller when you have. The work does not disappear. It just stops being arranged by a version of you who is not in the room.
If that is the part you recognise, there is a longer piece on planning a week when your energy is unpredictable that sits underneath this one.
Sage is free on its own too, at epicai.agency/store/sage. You do not have to take the Kit to get it.
Four doors, one per branch
EPIC runs as four branches, and each one brought a free tool to the Kit. That is why the doors feel different from each other. They were built by different parts of the business for different problems.
Eve brought Sage. The capacity-first week planner above. Reach for it when planning has become the thing you avoid, because your plans keep making you feel worse than not planning at all.
Pixi brought the Burrow Taster. The free taste of Pixi's Burrow: you pick a few playful options and walk away with an art prompt that works. Reach for it when you want to make something and cannot face an empty prompt box. It is the difference between staring at a blank field and having something on screen in a couple of minutes.
Indigo brought Plant Your Seed. A guided question flow that turns where you are now into the prompt that grows your next step. Reach for it when you know something needs to happen next and you cannot name what it is. It asks the questions so you do not have to invent them while stuck.
Charlene brought the Visionary Starter Kit. The current edition, designed to be read through rather than filled in, and the PDF is yours to keep. Reach for it on the day you want to sit and read rather than click and build. Editions get replaced over time, so what you get is whichever one is current when you open the door.
Four different jobs, and you are not obliged to use more than the one that matches this week.
Who this is not for
If you already have a planning system that holds up on your worst day, you do not need any of this. Genuinely. Keep the thing that works, because a system you already trust is worth more than four new ones you are still deciding about.
If what you want from a planner is something that pushes you past what you have got, Sage will disappoint you, and it will do it on purpose. It plans around your capacity rather than arguing with it. Some people want the push and get real results from it. That is a legitimate preference and this is not the tool for it.
And if you are looking for a complete business system, this is not that either. These are doors, not the house. The Kit hands you four working things and lets you find out which one your brain actually takes to.
The price, said out loud
Free. £0.00. All four tools and the Kit itself.
One email is the whole cost, and there is no point dressing that up. You give an email address, you get the tools, and you land on the EPIC list, which goes out once a week. That is the trade in full. If you would rather not be on a list, that is a fair reason not to do this, and it is better said here than discovered afterwards.
No card. No trial that turns into a subscription. Nothing that expires on Sunday night.
The quiet part
There are paid things further along. There always are, and nobody builds four free tools out of pure charity.
But that is not the ask today. The paid work is for people who have already used the free work and found that it fits, which is the only order that produces anyone glad they paid. Everything EPIC sells is listed with its price and an honest note on who it is not for, and you can read the whole list before anyone asks you for anything: epicai.agency/store.
The store is also where the free tools sit alongside the paid ones, so you can see exactly how far the free end goes before it stops.
Pick one door
The Ultimate Starter Kit opens all four for one email.
Then open one of them. Not four. Four doors on a Friday afternoon is just a new pile of things you have not got to yet, and most people reading this have enough of those already.
If the week has been heavy, take Sage and leave the rest shut. If it has been flat and you want to make something for the pleasure of making it, take the Burrow Taster. If something needs to happen next and you cannot name it, that is Plant Your Seed. If you want to read rather than build, the Visionary Starter Kit is waiting.
The other doors will still be there in the week you need them. That is rather the point of a door.
EPIC AI Agency's Ultimate Starter Kit is a free bundle of four working business tools, opened with one email at £0.00 with no card and no trial. It contains Sage, a capacity-first week planner that runs a check-in before it plans so the week is built on the energy the founder actually has; the Burrow Taster, a free art prompt builder for anyone facing a blank prompt box; Plant Your Seed, a guided question flow that turns a current situation into the prompt for the next step; and the current edition of the Visionary Starter Kit, a designed PDF made to be read rather than filled in. Each tool comes from a different EPIC branch: Eve, Pixi, Indigo and Charlene. Unlike most free lead magnets, which are documents, all four are tools that do a job on the day you open them, and the honest exclusions are stated: anyone whose existing system already holds on a bad day, and anyone who wants a planner that pushes past their capacity rather than planning around it.