Kitchen-Table CEO gives you the method and the back office for a home business: an idea that fits your life, a price that covers your time, an order system that never forgets, and a 90-day launch you can run around family. Honest and practical, with no income promises.
Kitchen-Table CEO · Bodhih Pro Kits · 45 by Bodhih Training, trainers to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
Choose an idea that fits your time, money and skills, sell a small test batch to ten real customers, and check local rules before buying stock. Price to cover materials, your time, overheads and fees, then track every order and payment. The Kitchen-Table CEO kit from Bodhih Training gives you the method and working tools.
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You priced by looking at the shop down the road and going a little lower. You never charged for your own hours, the gas or the boxes. More orders only make you more tired. The Product costing sheet shows your real cost and what you earn per hour, in about ten minutes.
A forgotten order is the fastest way to lose a customer. When every order sits in one row with a status, a due date, a deposit and a balance, you stop waking at 2 am wondering what you promised.
You know the number, and then you hear yourself offer a discount nobody asked for. A three-part price sentence and twenty ready lines make the money conversation ordinary.
A home has no office walls. Without named working windows and a specific ask for help, you end up working at 10.30 at night and resenting everyone. The time-block planner builds the walls.
Registration, food rules, tax and insurance differ in every country and city. You don't need a law degree. You need five questions and the right office to ask, and a dated checklist gives you both.
Imagine a Sunday evening twelve weeks from now. The children are in bed, your tea is still warm, and you open the Dashboard. Income recorded, what you paid yourself, three open orders for the week, one balance still owed. For the first time you can see the business instead of only feeling tired by it.
It began simply. You opened the Settings sheet and typed what an hour of your time is worth. You filled in one row of Product costing and saw, in grey and white, why the month never added up. Then you changed one price, and as you said it out loud the way Chapter 4 shows, the customer simply said, 'Fine, Saturday please.'
Because every order now lives in one row, you no longer scroll through chats to find what was agreed. Because your policies went out with the price list, the customer who cancels already knows what happens to the deposit. And because the planner is on the fridge, 9.30 to 12 belongs to you, and everyone at home knows it.
Whether you start with the Idea scorecard tonight or the Order book tomorrow morning, the 90-day calendar will keep nudging you forward, twenty or thirty minutes at a time. At the end you answer three honest questions with real numbers in front of you. That is what being the CEO of your own table feels like.
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Idea scorecard, start-up costs, product costing with suggested price, What-if lab, order book, customers, money log, monthly summary, stock list, 90-day plan and two live dashboards.
A clean, editable price list for products or services, with sizes, add-ons, how to order and your key policies in one page.
A one-page order form to fill in for every order, plus a simple invoice and receipt you can send to customers and offices.
Thirty copy-and-adapt messages for enquiries, prices, deposits, reminders, thanks, referrals and seven difficult moments.
Short, kind, fill-in-the-blank policies for ordering, deposits, changes, cancellations, collection, complaints and privacy.
Your whole home business on one fillable page: offer, customer, prices, channel, limits, money rules and 90-day aims.
A fillable weekly planner that puts fixed family time in first, then names your real work windows and the help you have asked for.
A short, friendly feedback card to send as a fillable PDF or print, plus a page for you to log what you learned.
The full-cost pricing method on one page: four layers, the formula, a worked example and the traps to avoid.
Twenty no-budget moves, grouped by effort, with the exact ask for each and a simple tracker rule.
The five questions to ask before your first sale, who to ask in several countries, and red flags by business type. Dated October 2026.
The three-part price sentence, twenty ready lines for prices, discounts, family and payment, and a seven-day practice plan.
Thirty-eight short sessions over 90 days, from scoring your idea to your first full review, importable into Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar.
Sixteen colour cards to print and cut: eight thank-you cards, four pass-it-on referral cards, two care-note cards and two mini feedback cards.
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
Why home businesses fail for lack of a system, not talent, and how to use the kit.
Score your ideas on six fit questions and write your offer in one sentence.
The ten-customer test, start-up costs sorted by need, and five questions for your local authority.
The four layers of a price, a full worked example, and the formula that includes your time.
The three-part price sentence, family rates, and asking for deposits without apology.
Your warm circle, one main channel, an easy way to order and the referral ask.
One order, one row; six statuses; deposits, policies and a weekly limit.
Small reliable habits, a four-step fix for mistakes and calm answers for hard customers.
Two pots, cash and digital, a ten-minute money log, stock, and borrowing as concepts.
Block the week, tell the household in hours and ask for specific help.
Repeat customers, referrals, higher order value and your first helper.
A four-phase plan and the three questions that decide what comes next.
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
At 600 rupees, Asha was not making a small profit. She was losing 193 rupees on every cake once the payment fee came off, and the only reason she didn't see it was that she had never charged the business for her own two hours. The sheet's last column makes it painfully clear: at that price she was earning about 53 rupees an hour. She would have had to pay a helper nearly three times that. The sheet then suggests a price. It divides the full cost by what's left after your margin and fees: 775 ÷ (1 - 0.25 - 0.03) gives about 1,076. Asha chose 1,100. At that price the fee is 33, the profit is 292 and the margin is a healthy 26.5 percent. She earns 300 for her two hours and the business keeps 292 for itself.
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | A blank 'cost + markup' calculator that ignores your time and overheads | Full-cost pricing with time, overheads, fees and target margin, a suggested price, a verdict and your real earnings per hour |
| Orders | A printable order form and nothing else | An order book with statuses, balances and due-date alerts that feeds your customer list and dashboard |
| Method | Templates with no instructions | A 9,400-word e-book that teaches the method, with worked examples that match the sample rows |
| Where it works | US-only assumptions, dollar signs fixed in every cell | Any currency and country, with a dated checklist of what to ask locally in India, the UK, the US, Nigeria, Kenya and elsewhere |
| Selling | Generic 'post more on social media' tips | 30 copy-ready messages, 20 no-budget customer moves and a price-confidence practice plan |
| Follow-through | You are left to work out the order of things | A 90-day launch plan in the workbook and in your phone's calendar |
Bodhih Training has designed and delivered corporate programmes since 2008. Bodhih Pro Kits package what works in those workshops into a guide plus the exact tools we use, so you can apply it the same day without a facilitator in the room.
Name, email and country. UPI, card or netbanking in India; international cards everywhere else. No account to create.
Your download page opens at once, with every file and a one-click ZIP. A permanent link lands in your inbox too.
Start with the quick-start chapter, then the main spreadsheet or planner. Most buyers use something from the kit the same day.
Open the Settings sheet, type what an hour of your time is worth, and let the workbook show you the rest. Whether you begin with the Idea scorecard tonight or the Order book tomorrow, you will be running your business on numbers by the weekend.
Personal licence for the buyer's own use (and use with your own team or clients where the kit says so). Please don't share or resell the files. Team and company licences: solutions@bodhih.com.
Change direction with a 90-day plan.
Scripts and planners for raises and offers.
250+ AI-graded assessments to measure skills and earn verified credentials.
Individual development plans that start from evidence and stay yours.
Run this topic as a live workshop for your team, in person or online.
Book a vetted coach for career, leadership or communication. Pay per session.
Certification pathways in Applied AI, Workplace English and management.
Start with what you already own and already do well, and sell a small test batch to ten people who are not doing you a favour before you buy anything in bulk. Sort every planned purchase into must have, can wait, or borrow. The kit's Idea scorecard and Start-up costs sheet walk you through both steps.
Add up materials, packaging, your time at an hourly rate, and a share of monthly overheads to get the full cost. Then divide by what is left after your target margin and any platform fee. The Product costing sheet does this for you and shows a suggested price, your margin and what you earn per hour.
Yes. The workbook uses plain numbers with no fixed currency symbol, and the method is the same everywhere. Rules on registration, tax and food safety do differ by place, so the kit gives you five questions to ask and starting points for India, the UK, the US, Nigeria, Kenya and elsewhere, dated October 2026.
No. The kit is educational and practical. It explains concepts such as registration, deposits, records, micro-loans and savings groups, and tells you what to check. For decisions about your own situation, please confirm with your local authority, tax office or a qualified professional.
No, and nobody honest can. What it gives you is a way to test an idea cheaply, price it properly and see real numbers within 90 days, so that you can decide with evidence whether to grow, adjust or stop.
Yes. Tutoring, coaching, beauty, tailoring and classes are covered throughout. The Product costing sheet works for sessions as well as items, the price list has a services layout with missed-session and block-booking terms, and the policies cover advance payment for classes and session blocks.
If you would like an outside measure, AssessAll offers the Small Business Operating Decision Assessment for Shop, Service and Studio Owners, a Business Arithmetic assessment covering percentages, profit and loss and interest, and an Assertive Communication Profile. They are optional, and a helpful way to see where to focus before or after your 90 days.
Use the 90-day launch plan first. After that, a goal-setting method such as WOOP, explained on the Jobulary blog, can help you turn 'grow the business' into a specific wish, outcome, obstacle and plan. Jobulary is also a good place to map the skills you want to build next.
No. The workbook opens in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice. The Word templates open in Word or Google Docs, the fillable PDFs in free Adobe Acrobat Reader or most PDF apps, and the calendar file imports into Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar.
Digital kits are non-refundable once downloaded. The exceptions are a corrupted file we cannot fix within 3 working days, a duplicate charge, or a failed delivery. Write to solutions@bodhih.com and we will sort it out.
₹999 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $29 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
