The only UK side-income guide that costs out your own budget, skills and hours.
Made for UK employees on a 9-to-5 who want to earn extra by selling AI-assisted or automation services in evenings and weekends.
Sample Idea Finder
SampleIdea Finder with made-up inputs. Every figure is an estimate.
- Budget to start
- £150
- Skills
- Writing, spreadsheets
- Hours available
- 8 hours a week
- Preferred type of work
- Services for small businesses
Ideas that fit your inputs: 3
Estimated start cost: £20 to £90
Highest start cost against your budget: 60% (estimate)
Your short list
Workflow automation set-up for small firms
Start cost £60 (estimate)
- No-code automation app
- AI assistant
- Invoicing app
AI-assisted copy editing for local businesses
Start cost £20 (estimate)
- AI writing assistant
- Grammar checker
Spreadsheet clean-up and monthly reporting
Start cost £90 (estimate)
- Spreadsheet software
- AI assistant
- Chart tool
*Assumptions shown
Each figure above rests on the assumptions below, so you can see what it depends on.
- Budget: one-off £150, nothing borrowed
- Time: 8 hours a week, evenings and weekends
- Tools: paid monthly, one month to start
Sample only. The inputs, ideas and costs are made up to show how the Idea Finder reads. Every figure is an estimate, not earnings.
What should I start with?
Most side-income advice hands you a list of ideas and leaves you to work out whether any of them fit. Income Toolkit goes the other way round: the tools come before the articles.
The Idea Finder takes your budget, your skills, the hours you have free and the type of work you prefer. It returns a short list of fitting opportunities with the tools each one needs. The calculators then show their working: every assumption is on screen, and every figure is labelled as an estimate, not earnings.
How it works
Three steps, in this order:
Tell it four things. Your budget, your skills, the hours you have free and the type of work you prefer.
Read the short list. Each fitting opportunity comes with the tools it needs.
Check the working. The calculators show their assumptions, so you can see what every estimate rests on.
Six tools, each one showing its working
One Idea Finder and five calculators. All of them label every figure as an estimate, not earnings.
Idea Finder
Budget, skills, hours and preferred work go in. A short list of fitting opportunities, with the tools each needs, comes out.
Side hustle profit
Shows what is left after costs, with the assumptions listed beside the figure.
Startup cost
Adds up what it takes to begin, line by line, and labels the total as an estimate.
Digital product profit
Estimates profit from a digital product and shows the assumptions behind it.
Freelance hourly rate
Works towards an hourly rate for freelance work, with every assumption in view.
Monthly income target
Starts from the extra you want each month and shows what that target rests on.
What you get
Free for visitors
Nothing to pay to use the Idea Finder or any of the calculators.
Assumptions on show
Each tool lists what its figure rests on, so you can judge it for yourself.
Estimates, not earnings
Every figure is labelled as an estimate, so none can be read as money you will make.