Specialist · Custom AI skills
Teach the AI a job once.
A skill is a reusable set of instructions, templates, and examples for one specific job: a proposal in your format, a research brief with your sections, a client update in your tone. Build it once, and everyone on your team gets a consistent result.
Who it’s for
For jobs you explain over and over.
Formatted documents
Proposals, reports, and briefs that have to follow your structure.
Specialist methods
A review, an analysis, or a checklist that your best person does well.
Team consistency
Several people producing the same kind of work, with different results.
Assistant owners
You have a personal assistant or agent and want it to do specific jobs properly.
- You paste the same long instructions into every chat.
- Each proposal looks different depending on who wrote it.
- Your best person’s method lives in their head.
- AI output is fine, and never quite in your format.
What’s inside a skill
Five parts, one job.
Each skill is small and specific. That’s what makes the output consistent.
Instructions
The steps for the job, in order, including what to ask for when information is missing.
Template
The exact structure of the output: sections, headings, and formatting.
Examples
A few of your best real examples, so the AI matches your standard.
Rules
Your terminology, your tone, and the things it must never do.
A test set
Sample inputs we run before handoff, to check it produces what you expect.
Example
Building a proposal skill.
Gather
We collect the firm’s best proposals, its rules for scope and terms language, and the partner’s notes on what wins work.
Build
The skill asks for the client, the scope, and the call notes, then drafts each section in the firm’s structure.
Test
We run it on past deals and compare its drafts with the proposals the firm actually sent.
Hand off
Every consultant can use it, and the partner reviews drafts instead of writing them.
Where it landsProposals start from the firm’s standard instead of a blank page.
Skills we build
Jobs that make good skills.
Good candidates are jobs with a clear format, a known standard, and someone who can say when it’s right.
- A proposal in your format, from call notes
- A research brief with your sections
- A meeting prep sheet for every client call
- A weekly client status update in your tone
- A job estimate from site notes and photos
- A first-pass contract review against your checklist
Scope
What a skill project covers.
Included
- Designing the skill with the person who knows the job
- Instructions, template, examples, and rules
- Testing on real inputs
- Installation where your team works
- A short guide to using and editing it
Scoped separately
- Connecting the skill to other systems
- Agents that run skills on a schedule
- Writing your source material from scratch
Set with you before we start
- Which jobs get skills
- Which platform the skills live in
- Who can edit them
FAQ
Common questions
Which platforms support skills?
Claude has a skills feature built for this. ChatGPT, Gemini, and other tools support similar reusable instructions through custom GPTs, Gems, or project instructions. We build in the form your platform uses.
How is a skill different from a prompt?
A prompt is a one-time instruction. A skill packages instructions, a template, examples, and rules for one job, so it gives a consistent result without anyone retyping it.
Can we edit a skill later?
Yes. We show your team how, and the guide explains which parts to change when your format or rules change.
How many skills do we need?
Start with the job you explain most often. Most teams add skills one at a time, as they see which ones get used.
Get started
Pick the first job.
On the intro call, name the job you explain most often, and we’ll talk about turning it into a skill.