Does this work if my kid already has a business?

Yes, and the value lands in a different place than you would expect, which is worth understanding before you buy.

A kid who already mows lawns has solved the problem most of this category is built to solve. Somebody is paying them. What they have usually not solved is everything that comes after the first customer, and that is most of the ninety days.

The parts that tend to matter most for this kid: pricing a job properly rather than guessing, asking somebody new without dreading it for a week, turning a one-off into a repeat, knowing what is left after costs, and handing over the parts of the business that a parent has quietly been holding.

The parts they will move through quickly: choosing an idea and testing whether anybody wants it. They already know. That is chapters one through three rather than the whole thing.

What surprises most families is that the novel still does the work regardless. Andre starts with nothing and Sophie starts with nothing, but what they run into after starting is exactly what a kid with three customers is running into. The week five chapter, where the schedule falls apart and the whole thing stops being fun, lands harder for a kid who has already had that week than for one who has not.

Two honest cautions.

If your kid is stuck on one specific thing, a whole ninety day program may be more than the situation needs. The five handovers covers the most common version of stuck, and it is free. Read that first and see whether it resolves it.

And if your kid is doing the work happily with no interest in growing it, the kit will feel like homework attached to something they already enjoy. That is a real way to spoil a good thing.

Where it fits best: a kid who earns, has stalled, and wants it to be bigger than it is.