The 10 AI skills every business should set up.
Stop explaining the same job to AI every morning. Write it down once as a skill, and everyone on your team gets the same good result, first time.
- The ten skills we would set up first in any business, whatever it sells
- Why each one earns its place, and what it saves you
- A starter
SKILL.mdfor each, ready to fill in with your own details - About an hour to build a working first version. No code
Works in Claude, ChatGPT and Codex, which all read the open Agent Skills format.
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Ten skills worth writing down.
They cover what you send out, what fills your diary, how you run, what you know, and how you keep getting better.
- 01
Your house documents
Drafts into finished, on-brand files
- 02
Your voice
Writes like you and your brand, not like AI
- 03
Where things live
Knows where everything is filed
- 04
End-of-session wrap-up
Files, logs and learns after every job
- 05
Meeting to actions
Turns meetings into owners and dates
- 06
Brief me before I go in
A one-page brief before every meeting
- 07
Process to playbook
Turns how you work into a checklist
- 08
Ask the business
Answers staff questions, with the source
- 09
Second opinion
Tests your plan before your customers do
- 10
Skill builder
Helps anyone build the next skill
Teach your AI once.
Most teams still use AI like a very clever search box: explain the background, fix the result, and do it all again tomorrow. Skills end that loop.
Written once
A skill is a folder of plain written instructions, examples and templates. Your AI tool picks it up whenever that job comes up, for everyone on the team.
One open format
Skills share the open Agent Skills format, built around a single SKILL.md file. Claude, ChatGPT and Codex read it natively. Elsewhere, paste it into a custom GPT, agent or project.
No code
A skill is a text file and a few documents, not a plugin. If you can brief a new starter, you can write one.
See skills built, then build your own.
The guide gets you started. When you want to see what good looks like, or get your team building, here is where to go next.
Watch skills built live
Half an hour at lunchtime, online or at the AI Adoption Lab in Greenwich. Watch a skill being built, then ask your questions.
Lessons, worked examples and reusable skills
Learn, our AI learning platform, shows how skills work with worked examples and files you can adapt. Start free with the AI Primer deck.
Build your first skills together
Bring your team to the AI Adoption Lab and leave with skills working on your own tools. Or talk it through with us first.